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Originally Posted by Frank
Regime change? They already had a democratic election, and Hamas was elected. Hamas "militants" are the army of the democratically elected government. Hamas police are the police force of the democratially elected government. The only regime that needs changing is the unelected, puppet "government" of Abbas and Fatah, who stand idly by while Israel expands settlements in the West Bank in violation of more UN Resolutions.
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A point of information if I may - Hamas won elections, but they were legislative elections, not presidential ones. So, they were not, and are not, a legitimate government in Gaza or anywhere else. They won the right to hold the government to account, and to pass laws, but they do not have the right to run the army or the police. And they certainly didn't have the right to take control, by force, from those that did have the right to run them, namely Fatah.
The legitimate government of Gaza is holed up in the West Bank, under the leadership of Mahmoud Abbas. Like him or loathe him, he's the man.