Comments by "King Ace" (@kingace6186) on "What Gazans Really Think of Hamas and How It Shaped the Crisis with Israel" video.

  1. This Arab Barometer survey is a golden trove of relevant information. Polling isn't perfect but this shows a credible snapshot of how Gazans were feeling the entire week before the war. This is a stroke of great luck for military & political analysts. So thankful to this organization.
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  2. While that is great, it is anecdotal. Try visiting all over. From the communities on either side of the Gaza blockade to the encroaching illegal Jewish settlement on the West Bank. From the southern desert lands to the northern heights. From the rich, metropolitan of Tel Aviv to the humble, divided Jerusalem. But yes, in general, the Israeli people are much more "liberal" than Netanyahu's far-right government. There is a divide between what the citizens of Israel want and what the government wants.
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  3. Yes. But when a state resorts to war as a distraction from domestic affairs, it can't be hurt more than it distracts. Due to the scale they chose & the fact that Israel has neglected the threat from Gaza, Hamas is the only one to blame for the attacks and subsequent retaliation from the IDF. Hamas shot itself in the foot and now Gazan voters are suffering for it. That is a shit campaign strategy.
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  4. It's unfortunate the amount of time I have heard "well Palestine likes Hamas so..." whenever talking about the Israel/Palestine conflict when the reality of Palestinian politics is much more complicated than that oversimplification. Edit: Digging deeper, the reason Bibi allowed Hamas to thrive was to keep this narrative at the heart of any "2 State Solution" debates, so maybe that is why this piece of misinformation is so widely circulated.
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