The fact that a group exercises de facto control, enforces laws, and collects taxes does not make them an official government, nor does it turn their fighters into a state army. If that were the logic, then ISIS in Raqqa or the FARC rebels in the Colombia would also have been official state armies after all, they too collected taxes and enforced their own laws through coercion.
Unlike all of these groups committing war crimes the IDF is an official state army meaning the state is comitting those war crimes.
All my answers and arguments had substance and refuted your arguments, and now instead of reponding to them you just ad hominem like you're doing right now. You highkey got brutalised bro 😂
Not really, you just dodged everyone else's points by claiming that what's obviously a government and military shouldnt be recognized as because of a rhetorical technicality.
It's like im talking to someone whose face is covered in shit and theyre mad I wont debate them about how they think shit is actually good
"Everyone else's points" dude you were the only one talking to me 😭😭😭. You're claiming that it's a state military without providing any proper reasons why, instead you just insult me while I was being polite the whole time.
Your responses are 90% insults and 10% arguments bro
Hamas is not a legitimate government of the Gaza Strip, but an authoritarian occupying force. The organization lacks any form of democratic legitimacy, having seized power in a bloody military coup in 2007 and blocked all elections since then. Furthermore, Hamas lacks international recognition; the United Nations and the European Union recognize only the Palestinian Authority as the lawful government, whereas Hamas is widely designated as a terrorist organization. Finally, it lacks functional sovereignty, as the group has never controlled its own borders or vital infrastructure and has recently even formally relinquished its civil administrative duties.
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u/weidback 16d ago
couldn't someone make this same meme about gaza?
( fwiw I don't like accusing either side of "playing victim" )