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[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Reading these comments is fucking insane.

Calling Hamas "freedom fighters" is an insult to every real current and past freedom fighter in history of mankind.

Freedom fighters dont choose targets that are exclusively civilian, they don't hunt down and execute civilians, nit caring about their beliefs or standing. They don't spread terror among the civilian population. All of these things make the thing they are fighting stronger and puts the rest of the population against them. It's what terrorists do.

Why do you think people in the zionist government support Hamas?! Because it serves to justify the hanous things the government does against Palestinians as a whole.

Real freedom fighters choose infrastructure, smaller military targets (that are reachable), political assassinations of the government officials they are against, et cetera.

These cause civilian casualties, but the civilian casualties are not the goal, they are the byproduct.

Palestinians deserve so much more than Hamas, but Hamas won't let them choose. They silence or kill anyone who disagrees with them, be it Israeli of Palestinian.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Fuck Hamas.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

She did clarify that she was talking about Palestinian civilians filming the missile attacks on civilian homes and such, calling them freedom fighters for documenting atrocities

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It’s what terrorists do.

This particular sentence is not entirely correct, as it implies that freedom fighters can't use terror tactics and thus be terrorists.

Say, if some Armenian force (there are none that'd have the balls) would bomb the Mingechaur dam, the pipes and infrastructure going through Tovuz, other smaller hydroelectric objects etc in Azerbaijan, - these would be actions aimed at fighting for freedom, but very important part of their effect would be terror.

In some way any violent activity aimed at denying someone their feeling of safety is terrorism. Like, say, allied bombing campaign of Germany (its goals were even formulated like that).

I agree that Hamas are not freedom fighters, their ideology is pretty Nazi.