Estimates still suggest that a large majority supports Hamas - though in this context, it’s difficult to assess with any real accuracy.
Estimates still suggest that a large majority supports Hamas - though in this context, it’s difficult to assess with any real accuracy.
For me, it’s enough to watch the interviews of those who were released, those who said that the so-called “peaceful” people held them in their homes. Those who described how these “peaceful” people beat them with sticks after they were captured and driven through the streets of Gaza in pickup trucks
It’s hard to ignore the deep-rooted hatred and violence that many Gazans express - it’s not exactly the image of a “peaceful population.” I don’t buy it for a second. So many in Gaza still live in a bubble built around the “right of return”... whilst they’ve lost every war they themselves started.
They’re like Russians, living their whole lives consumed by hatred, envy, and resentment. They don’t create or produce anything themselves, but instead envy others and are ready to attack anyone who’s better off than they are.
Russians give quite the same impression. Education is key.
They live on what Israel and the EU provide: food, water, electricity, hospitals, “education” rebranded by Hamas terrorists. Since 1948. On top of that? Lies. “Famine”? Please - just check TikTok. Show me another country that feeds and sustains the very people calling for its destruction.
Mia Schem, one of the released hostages whose arm was badly injured, said Gaza was like "one big Hamas family." No one they encountered expressed sympathy or support.