“Despite the devastation, 57% of respondents in Gaza and 82% in the West Bank believe Hamas was correct in launching the October attack, the poll indicated.”
Wait, you mean when we genocide people they become radicalised and support whatever organisation with defend them? I’m shocked.
You don’t need genocide to radicalize people. Look at the US.
That crowd literally thinks immigration is a plot to genocide white people
But we did have a genocide
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My heart goes out to the people in Gaza. We have let them down. Liberation doesn’t come cheap and they are paying the price alone.
No Algerian today would say the war for liberation was wrong. But it cost Algerians 1.5 million, 45k were killed in one day by the French. I don’t think there were ever a freedom that was won for a little cost. From Vietnam to South Africa to Afghanistan, always had to pay more than the colonizers and invaders in human lives.
LMAO… ‘Despite’ the devastation…
That’s like if your dog bit the neighbour, but then the neighbor killed your whole family and burned your house down and a journalist said “despite the loss of of everything he owned and everyone he loves, he now says he was happy his dog at least got one in first”
What kind of degenerate reporting uses obvious normal human reactions to tragedy to score political points and dehumanize innocent civilians.
I would like to believe that these polls are not really representative due to the overall chaos and that many of these people supporting the attack on Israel are in misguided denial or ignorant of all the atrocities committed by Hamas and only a minority are barbaric enough to support it whilst knowing and believing all the grisly details. But I am not convinced…
National liberation is never a mistake.
Ah yes, the Montana Standard. This is always the first publication I check when I need information about Palestinian sentiment.
I recognize the author is AP, but the article doesn’t link to any sources and I’ve never heard of the publication before, so I’m inclined to think the entire site is propaganda bullshit.
Washington has called for the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority, currently led by Abbas, to eventually assume control of Gaza and run both territories as a precursor to statehood. U.S. officials have said the PA must be revitalized, without letting on whether this would mean leadership changes.
Arab allies of the U.S. have said they’ll only get involved in post-war reconstruction if there’s a credible push toward a two-state solution, which is unlikely under the Netanyahu government dominated by opponents of Palestinian statehood.
Shikaki said that Gaza residents are more critical of Hamas than those in the West Bank, that support for Hamas typically spikes during periods of armed conflict before leveling out, and that even now most Palestinians do not back the militant group.
Despite the devastation, 57% of respondents in Gaza and 82% in the West Bank believe Hamas was correct in launching the October attack, the poll indicated. A large majority believed Hamas’ claims that it acted to defend a major Islamic shrine in Jerusalem against Jewish extremists and win the release of Palestinian prisoners. Only 10% said they believed Hamas has committed war crimes, with a large majority saying they did not see videos showing the militants committing atrocities.
Shikaki said the most popular politician remains Marwan Barghouti, a prominent figure in Abbas’ Fatah movement who is serving multiple life terms in an Israeli prison for his alleged role in several deadly attacks during the second Palestinian uprising two decades ago. In a two-way presidential race, Ismail Haniyeh, the exiled political leader of Hamas, would trounce Abbas while in a three-way race, Barghouti would be ahead just slightly, the pollster said.
Overall, 88% want Abbas to resign, up by 10 percentage points from three months ago. In the West Bank, 92% called for the resignation of the octogenarian who has presided over an administration widely seen as corrupt, autocratic and ineffective.
