Well how's that for a twist? Suddenly I see less sympathy being waved around on Facebook.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hamas-says-most-slain-gaza-protesters-were-its-members/ar-AAxlWSs
That's gotta be tough for the parents of the 15 year old.
shareHamas admitted that 50 of the 60 killed were Hamas members. Hamas is the de facto governing body for Gaza.
What about the Canadian doctor who was clearly marked as a doctor when he was hit by an Israeli sniper?
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-tuesday-edition-1.4663685/canadian-shot-in-gaza-says-he-was-clearly-marked-as-a-doctor-1.4663689
I guess he was standing within fifty feet of someone who was Hamas, so to the Israeli's that made him a Hamas sympathizer.
shareSo.....we're taking the word of Hamas as fact now?
No wonder Fox News is so popular.
Why would Hamas lie about that? If anything that's something they would try to hide in order to boost their morale.
shareThe leader of Ansar al Sharia took credit for the Benghazi attack and said they did it because of the video. Republicans went full Alex Jones against Hillary for nearly four years which started because someone in the Obama White House said the same thing.
shareHamas isn't taking credit for any attack though, they admitted that their numbers took a hit. That's the antithesis of chest pounding.
shareIt's not about chest pounding or boosting morale. Those tactics are used to make your team fight harder. Playing the victim accomplishes something different. It gets more members on your team.
shareYou think admitting defeat and glorifying your losses increases the chances of people signing up to suffer the same fate?
shareOf course. That's where 90% of radical Islam's strength comes from.
ISIS Sunnis are a prime example. When ISIS goes head to head with the Kurds or US forces, ISIS gets its ass kicked in. That's why Obama correctly called them a JV team. But when ISIS sends out their pleas for sympathy, we have a worldwide problem where ISIS sympathizers come from all around the world to join.
HAMAS, like ISIS, understands it's not very popular. The majority of Iranians want nothing to do with HAMAS. I've seen it first hand.
Now here's the US building an embassy in Jerusalem. It's the perfect opportunity for HAMAS to build up its membership by claiming the world is allied against them.
I have never once heard ISIS call out a plea for sympathy. Most of the support they have garnered is because people saw them winning for so long. In the same way that the Nazis grew in power by letting their accomplishments fester over time.
When people see terror attack after terror attack, people think that these terrorists actually have power. There is power alone, in the image of power.
Is it any wonder why ISIS attacks have died down considerably ever since Trump announced that the war in Syria had been won? They annihilated ISIS' last stronghold in Levant. Suddenly we see them retreating into the woods and having far less terror attacks in Europe as a result. That's not a coincidence.
Infact I see the opposite, I see ISIS taking credit for attacks they had absolutely nothing to do with in a last ditch effort to pound their chest. Because they have to. To admit defeat is like recruitment suicide.
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Except none of that is true. The last thing ISIS ever does, is play the victim. The poor defenseless Muslim being attacked by big bad America, is a narrative that leftists push to justify Muslim crimes.
ISIS themselves published and online magazine refuting this and saying what everyone else in the land of reason already knows, that the reason they hate us is because we aren't Muslim. Page 30, "We we hate you & why we fight you". Read it. They even go into depth to criticize politicians for twisting this narrative to appease the masses.
http://clarionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/islamic-state-magazine-dabiq-fifteen-breaking-the-cross.pdf
Another thing, Israel NEVER plays the victim. I don't know how in the world you're getting this. The reason we support Israel, is because they're the only ones in a sea of shit that shares our values and morals to a hint of success. No other country in the middle east as a liberalized, westernized democracy like Israel is. They're doing the best they can with what they have to work with. And we respect them for it. Of course we support Israel. It certainly isn't because they go whining about how big of a victim they are. If they're strong enough to have survived these last 1400 years without being swamped by the onslaught of Muslim savages, there's no possible way they could get away with claiming victimhood. I would call that nothing short of a monumental success.
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