• prole@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I know what the word means. If you want to get all semantic about it, Hamas isn’t a “military force,” they’re an insurgency. I’m not sure an insurgency “garrisons”.

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      1 year ago

      As the elected representative of Palestine they are indeed a military force, operating in a state to state conflict. Like the taliban in Afghanistan - they are the controllers of the country, no longer an insurgency. How “good” they are, morally or militarily, is irrelevant.

      Its like saying the US of A is actually an insurgency because they toppled the British government and established their own. Nope - government.

      How fair the elections were is up for debate, and how they stopped elections but they are thr government of Palestine.

      Furthermore, why are you bring up that I’m being semantic with a word that you had a problem with using?