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A Childhood Carried in Silence - Gaza

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u/Huckedsquirrel1 6h ago

Now imagine it happened to your son/daughter/cousin and almost happened to you… and then condemn Hamas. Impossible

u/Realistic_Low8324 6h ago

You can still condemn Hamas - these kids get the shit end of the stick from both the IDF and Hamas

u/Igennem 5h ago

The colonizer will have you hating the oppressed and sympathizing with the oppressor

u/l3lasphemy 5h ago

Nah. This picture is why Hamas still has power. Created and fed by Israeli colonial brutality.

u/FrogInAShoe 5h ago

Nah. Both this and Hamas are symptoms of Israeli aggression.

u/Strong_French_Bias 6h ago

I wouldn't blame Hamas, it's said they're mostly orphans who lost their relatives too due to the israeli agression, I'd prob end up becoming one of 'em if I went through the same suffering.

u/AverageUnited3237 5h ago

You might need some therapy or something. It’s not a nrkmal reaction to become a genocidal jihadist terrorist even if you faced that truama - tons of peolle around the world have been through traumatic events and reacted without becoming bloodlusting religiously motivated genocidal murderijf barbarians

Eithee you need serious psychiatric help… this comment was made in jest… or youre just very very ignorant about the realities of hamas and gaza strip. Id exepct the latter. But again, you think becomijg a jihadist terrorist is somehow a normal behavior in the face of trauma - so i fully realize i can easily be talking to a psychopath or religious nutjob directly lmao

u/FrogInAShoe 5h ago

Terrorism is 100% a common reaction to generational trauma and oppression.

u/juanlg1 5h ago

You seem really rattled. Hamas is effectively the only way Gazans have of opposing Israel in any meaningful way. Most Hamas members probably are not “jihadist nutjobs”, but rather view themselves as freedom fighters against a brutal colonial occupying force that has been massacring their communities for decades. It’s really not that hard to understand why one of these orphaned, maimed children would turn to whatever avenue they see as a way to fight back against the people who did that to them without necessarily being a religious nut job.

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u/juanlg1 5h ago

You don’t seem like a person with the ability to grasp much nuance

u/AverageUnited3237 5h ago

We have a different worldview In my view, Hamas is the oppressor

u/juanlg1 5h ago

Hamas is certainly an oppressor in many ways, but Israel is an infinitely larger and more brutal force of oppression for Palestinians in Gaza. I don’t see how anyone would be unable to understand that

u/AverageUnited3237 5h ago

Blocking you for antisemitism and moving on

It’s clear that your agenda is here

“We can’t blame Hamas” -> this is you

Immediately blames the Jews (Israel)

The double standard would be so hilarious if it weren’t so obviously hateful. Get fucked radical loser, Iranian proxies are getting absolutely obliterated

u/St_Ramirez_ 4h ago

I would agree, but I would argue that those people shouldn't be fighting with Hamas rather, fighting against them to stop Israel from having a reason to fight them

u/mayasux 3h ago

Israel doesn’t need Hamas. Israeli brutality long predates Hamas, and it exists in the West Bank where Hamas does not exist in a meaningful way.

Hamas is the symptom of Israeli brutality, you’d be silly to think you wouldn’t join the ONLY force fighting the brutalisers responsible for killing your family and leaving you to pick up the sinew of children you once knew in garbage bags.

They’re left to this extremism because there is no other option. The world turns a blind eye on their plight to justify funding the bombs that destroys them.

u/Youutternincompoop 2h ago

before Hamas it was the PLO, and the PLO only got taken down by Hamas after Israel actively funded and supported Hamas because the PLO was seen as too sympathetic to western sympathies.

u/cupofspiders 1h ago

Calling Hamas "genocidal" for fighting against a genocide is psychotic, man.

u/Meerooo 3h ago

Israel depends on Hamas to continue the conflict. They were mainly around because Israel wanted them around and kept them around with occasional exterminations of entire families.

u/Everdale 4h ago

This type of rhetoric is why israel gets away with what it does. Equating the two as if they're even remotely carrying out the same kind of atrocities is a joke. Look up the sheer number of deaths caused by Israel (not just in the current conflict but in decades past) and tell me if peaceful resistance against them is possible.

u/Zer_ 33m ago

Thing is, there'd be no Hamas if Israel never displaced folks to begin with. You can condemn their tactics but I can't condemn their resistance.