Hamas on Saturday said it would not disarm “as long as the occupation exists,” denying reported remarks to the contrary by US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and blasting him for visiting an aid site run by the controversial, US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
In a statement, Hamas vowed to continue its violent struggle, saying its right to do so was guaranteed by international law until Palestinians’ “national rights” were realized, “foremost among them… the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with full sovereignty and Jerusalem as its capital.”
The Zionists should lay down their arms. They are a militaristic colony of genocidal terrorists.
Ah yes, thank you Times of Israel for your unbiased and fair look into the thoughts of the people fighting against complete eradication by the hands of the country you are propagandists for.
They should retain arms as long as genocidal sociopaths and other Western-backed terrorists are out of the Levant.
And they’re 100% right.
International law is very simple and straightforward - land forcibly annexed is not legitimate. Israel has no legal or valid claim to any territory beyond what it was granted in UN Resolution 181 in 1948. Every single inch of land it’s taken since then has been taken illegally, and in direct violation of the rights of the inhabitants.
And that’s even before getting into the overt evil that Israel has committed along the way - the terrorism and brutality and oppression and murder that it’s employed to incrementally steal the rightful territory of the Palestinians.
And yes - the Palestinians have every right to stand against Israel’s brutal theft of its territory and murder of its inhabitants. Their resistance is not only morally right, but entirely in keeping with international law.
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And no amount of predictable emotive victim-blaming will ever change the simple facts of the matter - that Israel’s occupation of territory granted to Palestine inqq Resolution 181 is a clear violation of international law, and that Israel has caused FAR more harm, death and destruction to the Palestinian people than Hamas ever possibly could.
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It’s like you’re trying to excuse a child-murderer by pointing out that the victim’s dad is an asshole.
Israel is murdering Palestinians and stealing their rightful land.
No amount of diversionary finger-pointing will change those facts, or in any way excuse Israel’s overt and grotesque evil.
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Hamas right now is killing idf terrorists and trying desperatly to inflict enough damage on israel to stop the genocide
Sometimes resistance groups do terrorist act it doesn’t strip them the title of resistance Like the anc is south africa was responsible of killing certain civilians , mandela was called a terrorist. In india , there is a leader named nana sahib who intrntionally murdered british civilians and soldiers which he promised to set them free. Would you have asked that groupc to disarm before the end of british occupation. Even jews was planning to poison water suply that would have killed civilians. Do you think if they executed the plan, they wouldn’t have the right to resist the holocust?
Nobody is dumb enough to drop arms before ending occupation
Even then, a standing military is key to sovereignty
Exactly
Do not trust the shaytan al akbar.
