By Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
E: Please read the article before commenting.
It’s a kind of catch22. Hamas cannot release the hostages. Because as soon as the last hostage is freed, Israel will bomb Gaza to kingdom come. And continue as long as anything there is alive.
Not even that. Israel keeps rejecting getting them back because that’d remove an excuse to keep the violence going.
Hamas tried giving them back at beginning and Israel said no
Sigh, fine.
Hamas wants gaza to starve, let’s roll with it, so to fight Hamas, Israel should allow aid to come in and feed Palestinians, otherwise Israel is helping hamas and is anti-semitic.
Online supporters of the terror group have consistently attacked any efforts to alleviate the crisis. In posts and videos, they have dismissed efforts to send in food by convoys of trucks from Egypt and Jordan, pointing to the chaotic scenes as desperate Gazans scramble for aid. They have likewise attacked the airdrops that are now under way and called for them to be stopped immediately
This is pulled straight out of the author’s ass. Stop posting genocide propaganda, please.
Fouad Alkatib is a Zionist who lives in America who works for an American Zionist think tank. He gets paid to do Israeli propaganda.
I mean no disrespect and have read the
propagandaarticle. The Atlantic is an American publication based in Washington, DC.The Word of the Day is: Scapegoat
Thanks for you more reasonable response than most others. I regarded this article as valuable enough to be shared and discussed about, also since it’s obvious that the Hamas is a suppressive terrorist organization. Sadly most/many people don’t seem to read the article, especially those commenting the most.
E: But can’t it just be a different opinion, which happens to not align with yours, but still isn’t propaganda?
If you’re not paid for these posts, take our word for it and just stop.
Just because hamas is an oppressive organization doesn’t mean you should lie about them and do israeli apologism
U.S. analysis finds no evidence of widespread Hamas theft of Gaza aid
Netanyahu admits Israel backing ‘criminal’ groups, rivals of Hamas, in Gaza
Not to mention ton of videos of israeli blocking aids and destroying aids
The article say hamas refuse to end the war but it israel is the one refusing
Netanyahu says ‘no way’ Israel ends Gaza war until Hamas is defeated
Israel is the only responsive of the genocide. The debil made me doing bs is not working
Israel is doing the starvation, nothing justify starvation.
Israel needs Hamas to want Palestinians to starve or else Israel doesn’t have an escape goat to rationalize genociding Palestinians. As a result the narrative will be Hamas want to starve Palestinians.
escape goat
Just in case you didn’t know, it’s ‘scapegoat’; the goat isn’t, at least voluntarily, escaping anything.
yes
That poor goat carrying all that lard.
Please read the article before commenting.
No thanks
Hard to read an article that is paywalled.
Hard to read propaganda
Isn’t for me?
E: Maybe this one? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/07/hamas-wants-famine/683724/?gift=OsgW-uWNMiSsqh_gTIYXRk4xfcQRH-qTlmxF81QLknM
The last line absolutely nails it:
“The best way to undermine Hamas’s position is to instead flood Gaza with food, and to alleviate the suffering of its people.”
So why doesn’t Israel do it? If that would undermine Hamas’ position, why is Israel maintaining the supply blockade they started back in the 90s?
Why is Israel intent on shooting people lining up for aid, including children, if that just re-enforces the negative opinion Hamas wants everyone to have about Israel?
That’s not Hamas doing that, it’s Israel doing that.
Israel’s typical over-reaction to October 7th is what Hamas wanted, and Israel played into it. They chose to commit genocide, murder tens of thousands of innocent people, and used snipers to shoot children in the head and heart.
https://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_snipers_target_palestinian_children_in_gaza
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/02/gaza-palestinian-children-killed-idf-israel-war
“The doctor went on to claim that Israeli snipers are deliberately shooting children in Gaza, citing his observation of two children who were shot twice. “No child gets shot twice by mistake,” he said.”
That’s not Hamas. That’s a deliberate choice made by Israel. They could stop today. They will not, but they absolutely could.
The best way to undermine Hamas’s position is to end occupation and let israeli and palestininas punish their war criminals
Israel (or more precisely it’s PM and his clique) is definitely interested in prolonging the war, the same as Hamas. One can’t talk of one without the other. There werr some materials floating around that at some point Israel “sponsored” Hamas the same as US sponsored middle east terrorist groups just to be attacked by them later.
Keeping state of constant war is a very lucrative endeavour - you can shatter liberties, you can subject population to virtually anything claiming “war time” and rake profits from arms trade etc. While raiding humanitarian aid warehouses etc. It’s a very dirty business. Hamas needs to be disarmed and disbanded, Netaniahu has to be deposed and persecuted, Palestine should be it’s own state and Israeli need to return what’s not really theirs. But none of the homicidal entities is willing to be persecuted thus this war will continue until one of them destroyed or reformed
Israel is the only one who want to prolonge the war
The article says that Hamas wants Israel to starve Gazans, it doesn’t say that Israel doesn’t starve Gazans.
It literally says Israel uses hunger as weapon (against Hamas and against –or at least not caring about– civilians): “Hamas has benefited from Israel’s decision to use food as a lever against the terror group, because the catastrophic conditions for civilians have generated an international outcry, which is worsening Israel’s global standing and forcing it to reverse course.”
E: You partly approve the article yourself and I’m aware of the fact it’s Israel committing the genocide.
Not I nor the article have said that Israel isn’t committing genocide. The only thing said is that Hamas profits by it and that Gazans are furious about looters and the Hamas. I don’t understand why so many people downvote this, claim I would be paid, claim I would deny the genocide or write 6 comments where 1 would be enough, if not you want to deny Hamas is a terrorist organization which only cares about its own survival.
So why did Hamas agree to a ceasefire in March which Israel broke?
Why is Hamas bending over to accept ceasefire conditions? You are spreading Zionist blood libel and genocide propaganda.
Which prove do you have that hamas want palestinians to starve?
If you read the article –which you denied to do– you would have come across this passage: “In recent days, I’ve spoken with dozens of Gazans who are furious about what is unfolding around them. They are angry, one told me, at the “hordes of selfish people who are attacking aid convoys to steal and collect aid in a horrific manner without caring for Gazans who chose not to participate in these humiliating and demeaning displays of inhumanity, no matter the level of hunger.” But their anger is directed primarily at Hamas, which they hold responsible for putting the people of Gaza in this position, and for its continued refusal to end the war that it started. “Hitler fought in his bunker until he killed himself in World War II in the Battle of Berlin,” another person said, complaining that Hamas is hunkered down in its tunnels, willing to see Gaza destroyed to the very last child.”
You can also interview dozens of palestinians who blame only israel. Palestinians are not a monolith
I already give you sources that show that it was israeli supported gangs who stole the aids and also isrseli extremists destroying it or blocking
It’s so atrocious to compare certain palestinians to hitler yes even those who commited terrorism as retaliation for 57 years of brutal occupation.
The only real comparison with hitler is Netenyahu
It’s hamas who offered returning the hostages in exchange to end of the genocide yet you keep blaming them for what israel started and false claiming that they want gaza to be completely destroyed
Lol, it’s some Gazans comparing Hitler and Hamas. But that’s not the topic.
I already said it’s Israel commiting the genocide, you don’t have to act like I hadn’t.
It still say Hamas is only interested in its own survival, which you can see when having a look at its history. Now there are first voices in Gaza which claim that the Hamas profits by Israel using hunger as weapon, which the article used as headline.
They are angry, one told me, at the “hordes of selfish people who are attacking aid convoys to steal and collect aid in a horrific manner without caring for Gazans who chose not to participate in these humiliating and demeaning displays of inhumanity, no matter the level of hunger.”
Starving desperate people will do anything to survive. That’s basic survival instinct.
Stop spreading Israeli propaganda trying to make the victims out to be the bad guys.
What an amazing source https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GCFT85WjajY&pp=4gcMEgpwZXJwbGV4aXR5
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