Almost three in four Palestinians believe the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on Israel was correct, and the ensuing Gaza war has lifted support for the Islamist group both there and in the West Bank, a survey from a respected Palestinian polling institute found.

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Watch as the Israeli talking heads wheel out this poll as an excuse for killing Gazan civilians.

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That’s the entire point of these polls

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I could see it

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No. But even if 100% of the population of Gaza supported Hamas and even the Al Aqsa Flood, that’s still no excuse to kill civilians.
However the Israeli government has given no straight answers, fabricated evidence, and muddied the waters continuously since the 7th of October. It uses every opportunity to distract from and distort the truth. It will also take this as just such an opportunity.

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3/4 pro terrorism…that’s not exactly ideal.

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1\4 isn’t, and that’s surprising - with Hamas ruling Gaza and Israeli bombing it.

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Israelis are also mostly pro terrorism. Not exactly ideal.

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I mean are you seriously surprised by those results? You can’t kill an idea, you can replace it with a better idea. But with such an indiscriminate bombing and an international community who is still saying that Israel has the high moral ground, they feel betrayed by everyone but Hamas.

I don’t like it either, but I think the majority of the human beings in their situation would react the same? Do you believe that if Israel and Palestine were living in peace and everyone was treated equally and with respect, Hamas would have been a political factor?

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They’re betrayed by Hamas above all! Poor Palestinians have a government that’s trying to get them all killed for propaganda

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Ah yes, Israel has nothing to do with the killings

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No they’re betrayed by israel and the west which pretend israel is not a Nazi like ethno-state

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Wait, you mean that occupied oppressed People don’t like being occupied and oppressed???

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Yeah, I’d do the same in that position. Fuck Israel.

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You would roll up to a music festival and murder civilians?

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I’d start with learning how to read being you.

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Most Palestinians alive today were born into what is practically an open-air prison that is cordoned off by Israel. Being oppressed is all they have known. Its obvious that they hate their colonisers. And all these bombings will only fuel that hatred.

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