02-13-2024, 09:27 PM
(02-13-2024, 06:04 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: 40% of Gaza's population (prior to the current events, hard to say what it looks like, now) was 14 or under.
Of 2,098,389 people in 2023 (according to Statista), 1,479,221 were under age 30. So in 2006, the last time there was an election and Hamas took control and established their autocratic regime, they were a tween or younger, if they were even alive. I mean, 1,087,693 of them are under 20, so more than half weren't even weened from the tit if they were even alive.
So this population had nothing to do with putting Hamas in power and have done nothing but suffered under this autocratic regime that has, for the record, been propped up and elevated by Netanyahu's government.
They are trapped in Gaza. The access in and out of the area is controlled by Israel. Their access to the outside world is restricted by what Hamas will allow for and so far as Israel allows as well. What they are taught is that the situation they are in is due to Israeli occupation and most have no way of finding out any different.
Unless they take violent action against Israeli forces, then they do not deserve to die in this conflict.
But to me, the point of them not voting them in is irrelevant.
It comes down to one question.
Do you support Hamas? You don't have to vote for them to support them.
If you do support them then you cannot complain when Israel comes to kill them and ends up killing you in the process, when Hamas holds its genocidal view towards Israel.
You bring up a point about them essentially being taught to hate Israel. While I get your point, it doesn't matter.
If you support a group that wants to annihilate another group, you can't complain when that group retaliates in an undesirable way,, regardless of why you believe whatever it is you believe. You chose to support genocide, therefore you bare the consequences of that.
If you choose genocide over dying at the hands of Hamas, you chose that and bare the consequence of that decision.
If you choose genocide over fleeing for your life and possubly starving to death, you chose that.
If you choose genocide over attempting to cross into Israel and get killed by Israeli forces, you chose that.
Again, I'm not saying either of those choices are easy. All I'm saying is you don't get a get out of jail free card because staying with a genocidal group felt like a better idea than risking your life and attempting to flee to a better situation.
Sure, that better situation might not come to fruition. But deciding to stay with those that wish me dead is still your choice regardless of the circumstance. By doing so you've effectively told me my life is worth less than taking the risk of fleeing. If death is the response to that, then that is your repercussion to devaluing my life.
