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Children in Gaza ‘developing severe trauma’ after 16 days of bombing
(www.theguardian.com)
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People who condemn Hamas need to reconcile with this:
Those people were once children who were traumatized by occupation. Maybe they saw their parents die. Maybe they saw their siblings die. Maybe it was their uncle or their best friends. Maybe they were buried under rubble for days and barely survived. Maybe they were shot at. Maybe they saw their homes destroyed.
And then they had to just keep living under occupation. Go through checkpoints, live in cramped conditions, ration their own food, and know that their life expectancy is 40.
Those are the people who attacked Israel. Can you even imagine the pain and terror and hate they must feel? Little traumas and humiliations every day of their lives, only differentiated by spikes of severe trauma when the IDF mows the lawn.
I'd have killed myself. These people are incredible for hanging on despite everything. How dare you judge them?
It's still fair to judge Hamas. Israel's response is 100% predictable and there's a good argument that the innocent people getting killed are because of Hama's actions. The attack on Israel achieved absolutely nothing for Gaza but total destruction and death for Palestinians. They knew this but didn't care.
I get where you're coming from but they've made their entire situation significantly worse for no gain other than over a thousand dead Israelis.
I honestly have no idea what the answer is for the people of Palestine but randomly murdering Israeli civilians when you know they're going to go fucking apeshit in response is plain stupid.
This attack might see Netanyahu ousted from the government, has completely collapsed the normalization process with the rest of the Arab States that was close to completion, and has proven that Israel's infamous defenses are not impenetrable and the settlers are not safe.
Read Wretched of the Earth by Fanon.