06-15-2024, 02:41 PM
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/world...cYNc4FeWwf&smid=url-share
"Hamas leaders have said they wanted to ignite a permanent state of war with Israel on all fronts as a way to revive the Palestinian cause and knew that the Israeli response would be big.
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In March, the well-known Gaza photojournalist Motaz Azaiza caused a brief social media firestorm when he obliquely criticized Hamas after he left the territory.
He was one of a handful of young local journalists who rose to international prominence early in the war for documenting the death and destruction on social media.
“If the death and hunger of their people do not make any difference to them,” he wrote in an apparent reference to Hamas, “they do not need to make any difference to us.
Cursed be everyone who trafficked in our blood, burned our hearts and homes, and ruined our lives.”
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Some of the nearly one dozen Gazans The Times spoke to about Hamas say this war has lasted longer than any previous conflict between Israel and an armed Palestinian faction in Gaza in part because Hamas seeks not only to survive, but to cling to power.
And if it does, there is no guarantee that future wars with Israel will not plunge Gazans back into the same misery.
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“There is uncontrolled anger against Hamas,” he said. “It threw the Palestinian people into the bottom of the well."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/15/world...cYNc4FeWwf&smid=url-share
"Hamas leaders have said they wanted to ignite a permanent state of war with Israel on all fronts as a way to revive the Palestinian cause and knew that the Israeli response would be big.
...
In March, the well-known Gaza photojournalist Motaz Azaiza caused a brief social media firestorm when he obliquely criticized Hamas after he left the territory.
He was one of a handful of young local journalists who rose to international prominence early in the war for documenting the death and destruction on social media.
“If the death and hunger of their people do not make any difference to them,” he wrote in an apparent reference to Hamas, “they do not need to make any difference to us.
Cursed be everyone who trafficked in our blood, burned our hearts and homes, and ruined our lives.”
...
Some of the nearly one dozen Gazans The Times spoke to about Hamas say this war has lasted longer than any previous conflict between Israel and an armed Palestinian faction in Gaza in part because Hamas seeks not only to survive, but to cling to power.
And if it does, there is no guarantee that future wars with Israel will not plunge Gazans back into the same misery.
...
“There is uncontrolled anger against Hamas,” he said. “It threw the Palestinian people into the bottom of the well."
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
Music is how we decorate time.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat
