Had a conversation with a friend who kept insisting Hamas are radicals because they pay suicide bombers to kill people and engage in propaganda.
Personally I’ve never understood why people get so upset by suicide attacks when bombs dropped from airplanes kill far more people.
I guess Americans are radicals, since they spend billions of dollars funding people to blow up other people and Americans have killed a ton more people in the last eight years than Hamas has. Heck, Hamas isn’t even in contention, it’s apparently orders of magnitudes less radical than America.
I just don’t get it. I really really don’t get why people get so caught up on the form of things, rather than the end effects.
I have no idea what the word radical means, I guess. Perhaps it means”they don’t kill people in the ways we approve of, and they believe in a different religion than us”. Or something. I just don’t know.
But if funding people to kill other people is the metric, well then, Hamas are hardly radicals at all compared to most governments in the world. Pikers, in fact.
As for propaganda, they’re just not very sophisticated. American propaganda is far better and far more pervasive. How many Americans thought Iraq was behind 9/11? How many do today? Without even having to use Mickey Mouse.
Propaganda makes you radical?
Welcome to the Radical States of America – which funds more murders and engages in more propaganda than Hamas could ever hope to.
And without even as much justification. What did Iraq do to America compared to what Israel has done to Palestinians?