UN: Hamas police seized food aid and blankets from needy Gazans
haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061426.htmlPosted Feb 4, 2009, 11:40 AM UTC
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This won't make it to the reddit top 25 because redditors only care when Israel is always wrong
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And what makes you think this isn't jewish propaganda?
Hamas seized food aid from the UN for needy Gazans not from them.
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Blah blah blah...
Your broad generalization reveals your lack of intelligence.
And just so you know, both sides are wrong.
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Your denial reveals your lack of observation.
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You're right.
I'm the one referring to a website with thousands upon thousands of users, with thousands upon thousands of opinions and worldviews, as a single entity.
You should try removing your head from your ass. The air is much cleaner out here...
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Maybe you should take your own advice. Protophobic is right, this submission will never make it to the top 25, whereas most submissions criticizing Israel will get hundreds and sometimes thousands of up votes. So let me know when you see a pro-Isreal or anti-Hamas submission at the top, until then fuck off.
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I have a feeling that my PhD will end up in the same place as the rest of my degrees... in my storage closet.
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I guess anyone can get a Ph.D. these days! In my day you had to...
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Defend your thesis three times? That's what I had to do.
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Seriously uncool, but WTF is this all about:
Hamas and its security forces have administered and controlled the Gaza Strip since June 2007, when they routed security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Really? In whose reality?
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I don't get what you're questioning here, please elaborate.
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The wording sets off immediate propaganda alarm bells which has the expected effect of making the rest of the article appear suspect.
Hamas won an election, they didn't take over in a coup as the text implies. The use of "administered and controlled" is also a very unusual way to describe a government. It's similar to the Iraqi "Regime" soundbite were were all force-fed.
This is textbook propaganda. The text is strictly speaking correct but it has been carefully chosen to manipulate opinion.
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I agree. The source is "Haaretz" newspaper, which definitely leans towards a leftist POV, but still, Israeli newspapers are filled with this sort of BS.
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The aid is channeled through Fatah activists with a clear political agenda in mind.
Any credible elected gvt would do the same.
Israel enforce a blockade and carpet bombs the Palestinians and EU (main donor) try to get Fatah getting all the credit for aid and reconstruction
Bad cop, good cop approach with same message: Palestinians right to self-determination is irrelevant.
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About what? They won the election and the other parties weren't happy about that.
It wasn't a coup, the election came first, if anything it was the USA-trained Fatah trying to stage a coup and it was them that fired the first shots. The only people who refuse to acknowledge this are doing so for their own personal reasons.
What's YOUR angle?
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I actually heard that Hamas got wind of the fact that Fatah were about to attempt a coup, sponsored by the west, to take out Hamas completely.
Hamas then responded by attacking Fatah first.
If I can find the articles on this, I'll reference them.
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That goes against everything I've read but I'd gladly take a look at those articles if you do find them.
The USA has a very long history of funding terrorists and assisting them conduct political coups and the mainstream opinion on these events in Gaza do not contract this history. It's standard operating procedure.
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You don't think that Hamas actually gives a shit about the people in Gaza, do you?
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Isn't Hamas the GOVERNMENT? So aren't they the proper people to give the food to in the first place?
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wow, I can't believe that you posted this! Get ready for all of the down votes! Most of the people here hate Israel! Hamas can do no wrong in their eyes!
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Calling for an end to Israeli oppression does not mean that we support Hamas. Similarly, protesters against the war in Iraq were not supporters of Saddam Hussein.
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Hamas will still dish it out to Gazans. Who else are they going to give it to?
They just want to take the credit for it themselves instead of the UN getting the credit. It's a propaganda move yes, but it's not actually stealing the aid from victims.
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And I thought Hamas were such a nice bunch of guys...
I always despise people who come to reddit to do one thing: push an issue.
Looking at your post history, you fit into this category.
Goodbye.
Oh, yeah, wankers like you are so much better.
Maybe you were conceived with weak sperm. Maybe your dad was jacking off and your mom sat on it in the last minute.
Piss off.
And straight into viscous personal attacks? So kind and reasonable of you.
And you don't recognize Bill Hicks either... Sheesh, aren't you useless.
They are just a bunch of Pals...