An Israeli military spokesperson confirmed that there were “hostage situations” in the southern city of Ofakim and the nearby kibbutz of Beeri.
Hamas said it had taken “dozens” of Israeli soldiers hostage and moved them to the Gaza Strip as footage emerged appearing to show gunmen in military fatigues leading a group of mostly barefoot women down a street in Israel.
The announcement and video verified by NBC News came hours after Hamas launched a deadly land, air and sea attack and fired a huge barrage of rockets at Israel.
That’s such a stretch they should call you Mr Incredible.
I don’t know why I bothered, I knew even as I was typing that you weren’t interested in learning. I knew you were going to pick as many individual parts of that definition as you could and try to force the square peg of Hamas into the round hole of fascism. Because the alternative is that maybe you were wrong about something, and oh no we can’t have that.
We really need to do a better job funding our schools.
He thinks religion isn’t the end goal, but instead a tool used by fascists leaders whose end goal is actually that: fascism.
You think the people calling the shots are actually devout and that fascism is a tool to achieve some religious goal.
The former is a safer bet, since it isn’t predicated on needing to buy into the idea that the sort of people who orchestrate these acts are inherently principled and devout people who just have a very unfortunate interpretation of Islam.
Call it fascist+ with a fancy name if you will, but it’s nothing to get so worked up over.
There is no fascism though. Just some similar elements.
It’s definitely worth getting worked up over the zoomer tendency to call damn near everything fascism. Even the Barbie movie made fun of it. It’s watering the term down to meaninglesness. Which is very dangerous when there are real actual fascists on the rise in the world.
We really need to do a better job in teaching better manners.
When you have no logical response to something a person says to you, do you consider it good form to resort to… well ad hominem sounds too classy for what you wrote… Shit tier elementary school “You dumb I’m smart” asshat behaviour?
Learn to do better at the conversation stuff mate.
I know when actually arguing is hopeless. Literally nothing I could say would change your mind at all, no matter how much I prove you wrong, so why waste the effort? Better to just insult you, at least that’s a little fun and low effort.
Yeah that’ll happen when you approach everything as if it’s an argument and while being incapable of making a cohesive argument.
Are you trying to suggest that you don’t want to argue? That you might be open to learning something new?
Wait, wait, let me do your part
Sorry, I spaced on the last bit but it’s always a mad libs of haughty insults.
Okay my turn: can you possibly imagine being wrong in any way? Have you ever been wrong about anything?
Now you: you’re a sad individual who’s trying to distract from your total lack of an argument. I completely proved you wrong in every way and you know it.
Then me: so that would be a “no”
Then you: fuck off, troll
Then me: lol
That’s usually where this ends. Hopefully saved us a few back and forth.
What is it you think I’m going to learn from anything you’ve typed? The only thing you seem to want people to “learn” as that you’re right and everyone that disagrees with you is wrong without you providing any kind rational reason for this.
You stated that it’s the nature of fascism for there to be no real plan. I stated that Hamas has no real plan other than to use nationalistic and genocidal fervor to remain in power. We’re seeing genocidal actions being celebrated (or at the very least rationalized) by Palestinians. I don’t see a lot of Palestinians outright condemning the actions of Hamas, either out of sympathy for them or out of fear of them. This is suggestive of a fascist society.
You could blow my argument out the water by explaining what the long term plan of Hamas is. But there is none. Because they’re fascist and having power over people is the goal.
So instead of anything countering long list of fascist characteristics of Hamas and Palestinian society, it’s just “YOU’RE WRONG WHY DON’T YOU ADMIT IT!!!”
Really? You promise?
Sure but with the caveat that it’s a plan that will actually work (not just propaganda material) and it’s not just a callback to the “glorious past” of the Crusades (which is also propaganda).
Think pre-crusades
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Charter
By far the central objective is a Palestinian state that encompasses all or most of present day Israel and the defeat or obliteration of Israeli Jews. It is a very clear objective that hasn’t wavered in its central premise, just in scope.
To put it simply, they want a Israel to be a Muslim caliphate. It’s a very clear long term goal, and their plan to get there is jihad. And it’s a sincerely held goal, not just propaganda (though they do of course use propaganda to further that goal).
Notably, their goal is solely regional, not endlessly expansionist like most fascist regimes.
Another, separate massive difference from fascism is the lack of strongman political organization: