When people live in squalor and desperation for decades with no way to escape, most of them won’t become the most mentally well people and they will end up very receptive to radical ideology. So while the acts may not be “logical” in themselves, it is logical that these sort of things will happen eventually when you keep people in those conditions.
There is a certain logic to extreme acts, when someone has no other ways left to make themselves heard.
When they get marginalized and oppressed at every turn, and nobody in the world seems to care beyond lip service. When an oppressive regime takes away their rights, their food and water, their schools and jobs, their possessions, their homes, even their means of crying out for help by normal means, people will reach a point where they have nothing left to lose.
And their helplessness and hatred are all that is left, they will not care about lives. Their own, any bystander, all that is left is to hurt the people that hurt them, in an effort to change the situation for their other people.
If you understand “logical” as some sort of justification then I would agree with you but if just see it as an expected outcome of the status quo?
That Hamas would (try to) commit some act of violence was hardly unexpected, was it?
Yes, you are right, but creating a humanitarian crisis purposefully, flattening out whole residential neighbourhoods and displacing hundreds of thousands of innocent people is also not logical, especially coming from a nation that should know a thing or two about oppression.
Just go put some numbers into perspective. The Hamas army is around 30K, probably even less now.
The Gaza population is 2.3Mln.
There are a couple of hundreds of thousands who were already internally displaced, taking refuge at schools, hospitals, etc.
80% of the population of the Gaza strip was relying on humanitarian aid which they just lost. People would starve to death, babies would die, because their mothers won’t be able to get baby formulas. I can’t even fathom the scale of this tragedy. And don’t forget that we are now talking about people with severely limited rights, living in one of the most densely populated areas in the World.
And just wondering if you are put into this and watch how your baby slowly dies, or watch how your closed ones are being killed what are the chances that you would get radicalized as a result?
Already the number of hate crimes based on racial and religious grounds is on the rise this year. And even after this escalation finishes the consequences would be long lasting and those hate crimes would become even more frequent.
And just wondering if you are put into this and watch how your baby slowly dies, or watch how your closed ones are being killed what are the chances that you would get radicalized as a result?
Probably not as high as you think. We call it “terror came home” here in Germany when talking about the areal bombings.
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When people live in squalor and desperation for decades with no way to escape, most of them won’t become the most mentally well people and they will end up very receptive to radical ideology. So while the acts may not be “logical” in themselves, it is logical that these sort of things will happen eventually when you keep people in those conditions.
There is a certain logic to extreme acts, when someone has no other ways left to make themselves heard.
When they get marginalized and oppressed at every turn, and nobody in the world seems to care beyond lip service. When an oppressive regime takes away their rights, their food and water, their schools and jobs, their possessions, their homes, even their means of crying out for help by normal means, people will reach a point where they have nothing left to lose.
And their helplessness and hatred are all that is left, they will not care about lives. Their own, any bystander, all that is left is to hurt the people that hurt them, in an effort to change the situation for their other people.
The Human Cost Of The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
If you understand “logical” as some sort of justification then I would agree with you but if just see it as an expected outcome of the status quo?
That Hamas would (try to) commit some act of violence was hardly unexpected, was it?
Yes, you are right, but creating a humanitarian crisis purposefully, flattening out whole residential neighbourhoods and displacing hundreds of thousands of innocent people is also not logical, especially coming from a nation that should know a thing or two about oppression.
Just go put some numbers into perspective. The Hamas army is around 30K, probably even less now.
The Gaza population is 2.3Mln.
There are a couple of hundreds of thousands who were already internally displaced, taking refuge at schools, hospitals, etc.
80% of the population of the Gaza strip was relying on humanitarian aid which they just lost. People would starve to death, babies would die, because their mothers won’t be able to get baby formulas. I can’t even fathom the scale of this tragedy. And don’t forget that we are now talking about people with severely limited rights, living in one of the most densely populated areas in the World.
And just wondering if you are put into this and watch how your baby slowly dies, or watch how your closed ones are being killed what are the chances that you would get radicalized as a result?
Already the number of hate crimes based on racial and religious grounds is on the rise this year. And even after this escalation finishes the consequences would be long lasting and those hate crimes would become even more frequent.
Probably not as high as you think. We call it “terror came home” here in Germany when talking about the areal bombings.