Hamas is as big as it is because there are a lot of people in Gaza who think that Hamas is their best chance of changing the situation. If it is as bad as it seems to be to me as an outsider then you have to understand that for someone with absolutely no future and nothing to lose living in what has been termed the worlds largest prison that a large fraction will end up being recruited. This is a reflection of the degree of hopelessness of the situation, not that Hamas is popular in any other way.
If - farfetched - Germany would occupy NL tomorrow and would bulldoze my house, kill one of my kids and settle a bunch of thoroughbred Germans on the former site of my house leaving me with no recourse I too would become a terrorist. When the extremists of what is on both sides a thinly veiled religious conflict refuse to give ground it will simply never end until the last one of them is dead on either side. And that's a horrific thing to contemplate.
"there are a lot of people in Gaza who think that Hamas is their best chance of changing the situation"
They lost that bet. Why double down with a losing hand?
If that happened to you I would hope your responses wouldn't be to kill, torture and rape anyone who happens to be in Germany? I can't see that helping your cause
Then you fundamentally misunderstand human nature, and eventually that will result in de-humanizing the other side and that in turn leads to genocide. Do you really believe that displacing people and leaving them nothing to live is going to result in people just packing up and leaving because that's the reasonable thing to do?
What should those people do to help their cause? Appeal to the UN? Sorry, veto'd.
> there are a lot of people in Gaza who think that Hamas is their best chance of changing the situation.
Those people are wrong. Hamas does not have a chance of accomplishing anything other than slaughter of gazans. They have no chance against israel, unless of course improving palestinians life isn't the goal but rather terrorizing israelis.
You missed with your analogy. Germany (Palestine) wasn't happy with what it got, started a war, lost it. It became radicalized, Nazis (Hamas) came to power and sought to utterly exterminate some of its neighbors and some groups of people. They didn't want to have peace talks to the very bitter end. I guess you Netherlanders were the lucky ones, because you were pure enough to be not considered an inferior race.
