Pro tip: Don’t try credentialism if you don’t even have the guts to put your name on your account. Sinwar wrote explicit letters about the value of civilian deaths. Haniyeh praised civilian death. It is the only explanation for the sheer scale of the tunnels, their sophistication and how Hamas has actually used them, for example the exclusion of any civilians no matter what military actions were underway above ground. You also seem to have no background knowledge on Hamas itself. For example, how Hamas understands and routinely references the Algeria war, where victory, as Hamas leaders argue, was a function of the massive death toll. Or Hamas’ doctrine of jihad, drawn from Qutb’s Milestones that was very popular among Hamas’ founding generation. These all provide deep and serious religious and strategic justification and validation for a strategy of massive civilian death in Gaza. You’re a “historian” who claims I’m misinterpreting Hamas - heck, that I’m outright lying in the interests of propaganda - because you read something somewhere about Vietcong tunnels. Your argument boils down to, “nuh uh, can’t be, propagandist.” If you really are a historian in real life, you ain’t a historian here on Twitter. And no, Hamas isn’t desperate for aid because it cares about Gazan civilians, it’s desperate for aid because it faces a growing whirlwind of protests it no longer has the manpower to suppress. You say you hate Hamas, but you also insist it’s a defender of the very Gazan civilians who now march against it.
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