@rcz@101010.pl That’s precisely what I’m talking about - a constant stream of excuses, which is completely mixed up and its primary point is, indeed, to take away any agency from #Palestine. As I see it today: #Hamas has 100% control over their actions and financially supported by IranHamas control over #Gaza is full, just as their decisions to steal humanitarian aid, enforce “military tax”, conduct arbitrary executions of Palestinian civilians, build kilometers of tunnels for stolen humanitarian fundsHamas doesn’t give a shit about Palestinians as they are, its mission is to destroy Israel at any cost, literallyPalestinian civilians are indeed absent of any agency in Gaza, as they are practically hostages of Hamas - that’s the true tragedyPalestinians in Western Bank have PAA and thus much more agency, and they are indeed focused on development of their autonomy, not on fightingHamas was not “created by Netanyahu”, Gazans voted for it in 2006 in their last elections, after which Hamas conducted an armed coup in 2007 kicking out (=killing) any PAA representatives and turning Gaza into a land fortress with only one purpose - destroy #IsraelThis vote unfortunately irreversibly destroyed any trust built after Oslo Accords and posed Ariel Sharon, who only in 2005 forcibly withdrew any Israeli settlers from Gaza, as a naive pacifist; and this indeed brought Netanyahu to power, so if anything it was the very opposite what left says today Here comes the Western left, mixes all that up, and lumps together Hamas and Palestinians, while being very careful not to mention any of the above events, especially hostile stance of Hamas towards civilians in Gaza, whom they exclusively treat as human shield and source of income.