it literally never did. the “thousand year holy war” is a fairy tale version of the “conflict” that americans parrot as fact because it’s easier to believe that everyone in the middle east is superstitious to the point of bloodlust than the complicated truth that there are deeper historical reasons that implicate western imperial projects. Hamas is a religous organization, but the movement to liberate palestine – of which they are merely the last remaining militant segment – is and has been largely secular, and concerned not with fulfilling some scriptural destiny so much as securing for the people of palestine a dignified, safe, and free life which has been denied to them by the settler colonial ethnostate which begin slaughtering and imprisoning them in 1948 and has not stopped.
I say this in all love and understanding, but you do not have even a baseline understanding of the Israeli occupation of Palestine to begin to comment on it, and the explanations of it most readily available to you are only going to make you more confused and ignorant. As a starting point, I recommend the essay collection The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent ISBN 1-56584-914-0, or else the website https://electronicintifada.net/.
it literally never did. the “thousand year holy war” is a fairy tale version of the “conflict” that americans parrot as fact because it’s easier to believe that everyone in the middle east is superstitious to the point of bloodlust than the complicated truth that there are deeper historical reasons that implicate western imperial projects. Hamas is a religous organization, but the movement to liberate palestine – of which they are merely the last remaining militant segment – is and has been largely secular, and concerned not with fulfilling some scriptural destiny so much as securing for the people of palestine a dignified, safe, and free life which has been denied to them by the settler colonial ethnostate which begin slaughtering and imprisoning them in 1948 and has not stopped.
I say this in all love and understanding, but you do not have even a baseline understanding of the Israeli occupation of Palestine to begin to comment on it, and the explanations of it most readily available to you are only going to make you more confused and ignorant. As a starting point, I recommend the essay collection The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent ISBN 1-56584-914-0, or else the website https://electronicintifada.net/.
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