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Originally Posted by Chris
To be fair, the line about people in Gaza today not having voted for Hamas is a pretty blatant ordering of facts in order to prove a point not supported by those facts.
The lack of an election simply tells you that you don’t have an election to tell you what people think. It certainly does not tell you that 75% of Gazans don’t support Hamas, which is always the inference dangled by those who raise this point.
There are other ways of determining levels of support for Hamas in Gaza. Interviewing Gazans is a decent one. I don’t see too many of them willing to denounce Hamas.
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In fairness it wasn't Hamas that bombed them into oblivion, which is probably their most immediate concern. If you asked them today support for armed struggle against Israel has probably gone up - it's a far easier choice if you have nothing left and will be collectively punished anyway.
Equally if Hamas - terrorists - were so all encompassing in terms if the administration of Gaza prior to this why would anyone civilian speak out to put themselves and their families at risk for the performative pleasure of people in the west indifferent to their destruction?