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There's some merit to your viewpoint because Hamas was at one time democratically elected. I don't think there's a strong case for claims that the majority of Palestinian people supported the October 7th attack on either military or noncombatant targets. One being that the majority of Palestinians were not of voting age at the time.

October 7th being an illegal attack justified a military response from the Israeli Defense Forces to secure their border, and most of the world agreed. Opposition solidified when IDF conducted mass destruction of civilian structures and independent observer-corroborated systematic murder of noncombatants, many of whom were children.

While two wrongs don't make a right, it's justified to support a people who are the victims of a genocide according to credible observers.

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I agree, I just don't think you can really be only "pro-palestine" because it's sort of like the same thing in reverse.

If Hamas was in-charge of the situation , what do you think would happen to Israelis, you think they'd be well looked after by Hamas?

What should be happening if we had good world leadership is Israel would be bought under control through sanctions, we'd investigate and prosecute war criminals on both sides and the world would help eliminate Hamas and Iran (because they help Russia kill people in Ukraine) and support Hamas, but yeah, not in that world.

Realistically October 7 was a huge, huge disaster for the Arabs in the region.

Your dogged equating of support for the Palestinian people with support for Hamas is elevating a minority view.

This would be like my claiming that all Liberal Party of Australia members hate aboriginals. Many do, but that is not how the majority of Liberals see it. Or a claim that all US Republicans are racist. Not sure what nationality you are, but you should get the picture.

Are you saying that most Palestinians don't believe in Hamas, or their message? At one point they were elected...

Have you ever read this? https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/doctrine-hamas

Anyway, it's ironic because if you look at all the hate directed at Israel, you could only draw the same conclusion. People hate Israelis, even though it's largely their government doing the fighting ?

If you read that doctrine, you will see propaganda is a major part of Hamas' modus operandi, and many westerners fall for it too. It's actually amazing how many point form the 1998 charter people seem to be repeating now, in 2026.

Back to my point really, if you gave control of the area back to Hamas (because who else would run things), what do you think would happen to innocent people in Israel? If all the people who attended those protests were successful, what do you think the outcome would be ?

I think you have a genuine dogmatic blind spot here.

1. Popular "pro-Palestinian" movements in the West largely do not support Hamas. Sometimes its iconography appears! Just as Nazi iconography sometimes appears at Republican events. This does not imploy majority support!

2. Belief the genocide of the Palestinian people should be halted does not imply support for Hamas.

3. Palestinian self-rule does not necessitate an armed Hamas leadership of the Palestinian territory.

4. Support for Palestinian people and condemnation of the Netanyahu government does not imply an anti-Jewish belief. The majority of American Jews condemn Netanyahu!

There is something in your belief system that erroneously tightly couples Hamas with Palestine. Hamas control of the Gaza strip is only a decade old.

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