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hamas could surrender tomorrow and end any pretense or cover for the "genocidal ambitions". you are being incredibly racist towards palestinians by infantilizing them and suggesting that hamas doesn't have any agency or responsibility for this war or it's effect on innocent civilians.

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I think you are putting too much weight on the organization rather than the idea and collective it represents. From a very westernized idealized perspective.

Hamas is not this all encompassing high communication stable organization able to surrender tomorrow.

Hamas, or rather the idea, is instead made up of everyone who had a family member, relative or friend killed by Israel wanting to live a good life without the threat or pain of past actions.

One group of a loosely connected collective surrendering won’t materially change the situation on the ground.

Agency? Weak orgs does not have agency. You could claim Netanyahu has been running the Hamas nomination committee by bombs.

I would guess they are mainly cells of self playing pianos by now with some expatriot spokesmen.

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