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[-] nomecks@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was bait. The best organized groups in oppressed areas are extremists. We saw that when Hosni Mubarak got tossed in Egypt. The Muslim Brotherhood was instantly elected, because they were the most organized. Same goea for Hamas. Who was a serious oppoment to the only group capable of getting anthing actually done in Gaza?

How many elections have happened since?

[-] shatal@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Are you saying that the Egyptians are oppressed?

Also Hamas won the elections by a small margin, just a few percentages more than the PLO at the time. It's not like everyone in Gaza rallied behind them (at least then).

The reason that there were no elections after that is that once they won, they Putin'ed the opposition and threw all the PLO party members from the building rooftop.

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