• Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Question honestly from a place of ignorance: is it not?

      I don’t know much about that group other than the attack a couple years ago. I do know that IDF is a terrorist org because they’re currently committing a genocide.*

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        Hamas is the government of the Gaza strip. They have a military and they do military operations. If you call them terrorists, you might hold that same opinion about other governments

        • Match!!@pawb.social
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          i don’t consider Hamas to be a legitimate government since they haven’t held any elections in Gaza since 2006, nor do they provide services or international negotiations. Fatah, comparatively, is a legitimate government but lacks the ability to resist Israeli genocide

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          I mean… Yeah, a lot of governments are.

          In any case that shouldn’t justify the genocide of those countries’ civilians.

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          Hmmmm I won’t call them terrorists then but I DO hold that opinion about many other governments, especially the US hahaha

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          Joke’s on you, I already thought most governments were terrorist organizations ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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      Terrorism is just a propaganda word for common military strategies, which “civilized” nations like to pretend they don’t do.

      EVERY nation with a military is automatically a terrorist organization by definition. That’s literally the primary job of the military - to terrify the opponent into surrendering, or not getting froggy in the first place.

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        Warfare is when a western country does it, terrorism is when an enemy of the US does it.