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> "terrorist-sympathizers"? Is that how Zionists identify Palestinians now?

This is not a Palestinian issue. If it were, Israel would be bombing the West Bank as well.

Gazans voluntarily elected Hamas.[1] Hamas then refused to leave after getting involved in violent conflict with their political opponents, Fatah. Were Gazans ignorant of the ideology of the creature called Hamas when they handed them power?

People should stop equating jihadis with civilians. Keep doing this and the suspicion about Muslim civilians having jihadi tendencies gains wider acceptance.

This is Hamas vs Israel, not Palestine vs Israel.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance_of_the_Gaza_Strip

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You mean the hamas created and promoted by the Israeli government?[0]

> Instead of trying to curb Gaza's Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat's Fatah. Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today; during the recent war in Gaza, Hamas fighters confronted Israeli troops with "Yassins," primitive rocket-propelled grenades named in honor of the cleric. [1]

[0] https://theintercept.com/2018/02/19/hamas-israel-palestine-c... [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20090926212507/http://online.wsj....

> You mean the hamas created and promoted by the Israeli government?

Yes. Every power employs divide-and-rule as a policy to control their opponents. When their opponents fight each other, a lot of their resources would be too tied up to fight Israel.

The sooner the West realises that jihadis are not their allies and cannot be controlled, the better.

By the west here, you mean Israel?

> By the west here, you mean Israel?

And the US, which did very similar things when it funded Osama Bin Laden and the Mujahideen during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

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