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[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Almost 20 years ago, when the majority of Palestinians alive today were either too young to vote or hadn't even been born. How long after an election do you assume elected leaders have any real mandate?

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago

My point was that regardless of their ability to do it, they were at one time the elected officials of the geographic location known as Gaza. They're obviously not a real government in policy and action, but they're the only thing that exists to even bear the term or concept of governance in the area.

There is no other group to be considered as the government, no matter how awful Hamas is at being a government of any variety.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

At one time, yes, but I don't think we should be holding the Palestinians today to that. That would be like the Dubya era. If he had kept office until now, he would certainly not represent the opinion of Americans.

Hamas is embedded like a parasite, but there's better ways to point this out.

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