HAMAS-GAZA-101

 

Hamas is not “the devil”, as is commonly portrayed by mainstream media and politicians. It is also (from his perspective) a problematic organization/entity.

Achcar believes that the November 7th attack seriously hurt the cause of the Palestinian People and that Hamas’s leadership should have understood that the massive genocide or something faintly close to it would be the Israeli response due both to United States leadership, and the right-wing Israeli leadership, particularly as lead by Benjamin Netanyahu.

https://medium.com/@marxgeo/gaza-catastrophe-magical-book-about-the-genocide-f92bb425c508

My writing – noted above – below are part of two of the negative responses to my review

Jeff Moskowitz

Israel has been accused of genocide in each of the five wars that Hamas has started since taking over in 2005. Also accused of genocide in the 1948 war started by five Arab countries.

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Greg Dempster, MFA

I really don't care what some leftist academic has to say from London, of all places. The idolatrous review lacks any intellectual or academic rigor, enough so that all the lauds and laurels seem misplaced.
Hamas is not interested in peace, but rather the destruction of Israel as its only goal. If they wanted peace, they never would have launched the October 7th attack.
Hamas cannot be allowed to remain in power in the region. They must hand over all of their weapons, and every single one of their operatives must leave the area. Not one of them can be allowed to stay.

I try to believe that individuals (generally, I’d guess, white, Jewish, upper-middle class men) are sincere, likely triggered by my words, and lacking in curiosity about the issues I write about beyond anything that agrees completely with their views.

I’ve read two books on Hamas – see:

Hamas Contained: The Rise and Pacification of Palestinian Resistance - Tareq Baconi

  https://www.georgemarx.org/2024/02/hamas-contained-tareq-baconis-excellent.html

 + Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters - Helena Cobban and

  Rami Khouri - https://www.georgemarx.org/2025/01/understand-hamas-excellent-read.html

.  I’ve also got a third book still to read.

Reading histories of individuals like David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir, visiting Israel in 1963, 1968 and twice around 1980 and 1981 helped me initially be strongly Zionist.   In the 1980’s my views changed as I read (Jewish) intellectuals/professors and similar such as Noam Chomsky.   I find it very challenging talking with some individual relatives, who are strongly Zionist.   It has little, if anything, related to “brain intelligence”.   A cousin is an emeritus professor who’s written a lot related to Judaism and Anti-Semitism.

Those who respond similar to the two men noted above almost never speak to points made by the authors I quote.   They use words like: the idolatrous review.   We can disagree about facts.   I’ve read extensively about actions and words related to the Jews in what became Israel prior to 1948.    It seems obvious to me that it was important for the Israeli leadership in and just prior to 1948 to be “majority Jewish” and to “own and control the land”.    Palestinian residents were unlikely to leave where they’d lived their entire lives to “help Israel out”.

I am open to listening to perspectives that differ from mine.  I do it frequently.   I don’t accept being told that “I’m wrong” by responders to my writing as was shown above.   Their words reflect their perspectives, including often fear of “Arabs”, “Hamas”, “Muslims”.

Just as Ice + Donald Trump in Minnesota particularly use their power over others, rather than either the laws and constitution of the U.S., critiques to be worth deeply listening to for me, at least require something that helps me see where I’m wrong, at least in part, rather than being what I would label “propaganda”.

Intellect and emotional depth are both important to me!   I respect Peter Beinart, Rashid Khalidi, as well as Gilbert Achcar.   I’ll stay away from the writings of men such as Dempster and Moskowitz.   I’m aware that others, if not them, will continue to respond (similarly) to my writings!

 

 

 

 

 

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