# Fuck Hamas **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 27, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867 "2008-12-27T19:30:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/61 "2008-12-27T22:32:06Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > Actually, not many were killed or injured, as compared to the results of the Israeli attack. That’s what makes it disproportionate, and such great propaganda fodder for Hamas. What is the virtue of a proportionate response? ---
**Author:** ![Discordia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Discordia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Discordia)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/62 "2008-12-27T22:32:10Z")
> [@Trocisp](#): > > Yeah, those fuckers trying to live a life and raise kids don’t want to be able to have their kids go to school without their school bus being blown up! Sorry for not being precise enough with my words, let me try again. Enough people on both sides don’t want peace that attaining peace is impossible. It’s a shame these people can’t kill each other and get it over with. ---
**Author:** ![Todderbob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@Todderbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Todderbob)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/63 "2008-12-27T22:33:53Z")
> [@Discordia](#): > > Sorry for not being precise enough with my words, let me try again. > > Enough people on both sides don’t want peace that attaining peace is impossible. It’s a shame these people can’t kill each other and get it over with. That works for me. Objection withdrawn. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Discordia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Discordia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Discordia)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/64 "2008-12-27T22:33:55Z")
BG, if Israel took option number two, and the Hamas controlled Palestine started launching rockets into Israel, what does Israel do? ---
**Author:** ![Sevastopol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Sevastopol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sevastopol)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/65 "2008-12-27T22:35:20Z")
> [@mudkicker](#): > > As to Palestine/Israel/Hamas, I too get tired of the attitude that anyone criticising Israel only does so for anti-semetic reasons, or because we’re all a bunch of EU liberals. Objecting to civilians getting murdered while going about their day? What an anti Jewish handwringing European bunch of pussies we are! (And yes, my RO on blowing up civilians extends to Hamas as well.) You shouldn’t take any offence. It’s one of those things they have to say, in order to keep up the current policies. Don’t mean nothing by it. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/66 "2008-12-27T22:35:22Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > What is the virtue of a proportionate response? It would allow \*\*DT \*\*to like you. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/67 "2008-12-27T22:35:46Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > The options I mentioned in post #36 are the only realistic alternatives to the intolerable status quo – unless you can think of another? Didn’t think so. So why won’t Israel, or you, seriously consider either? That is incorrect. I have another two realistic alternatives - 1. To continue the conflict for a few more decades until circumstances change enough for a renewed chance of peace. or 1. That the Palestinians cast aside their religious extremism and realize that the only way they’re ever have their own country is to accept that Israel is here to stay and that they’re not going to get everything they want. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/68 "2008-12-27T22:37:56Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > What is the virtue of a proportionate response? It doesn’t play into the hands of your enemies, for one. And it kills fewer innocent people, assuming you care ( I see little evidence either side in this conflict does though ). ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/69 "2008-12-27T22:39:11Z")
> [@casdave](#): > > you lot decided to fucking turn up late, when all the action and dust had settled. What a complete and unadulterated load of crap. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/70 "2008-12-27T22:39:39Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > What is the virtue of a proportionate response? Well, less innocent people would die. Not that I know if you would consider that a virtue or if you accept that there’s such a thing as innocent Palestinians. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/71 "2008-12-27T22:39:41Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > That is incorrect. > > I have another two realistic alternatives - > > 1. To continue the conflict for a few more decades until circumstances change enough for a renewed chance of peace. > > or > > 1. That the Palestinians cast aside their religious extremism and realize that the only way they’re ever have their own country is to accept that Israel is here to stay and that they’re not going to get everything they want. The second is not realistic; the first is not an alternative. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/72 "2008-12-27T22:41:04Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > … the first is not an alternative. Of course it is. In fact, it’s the most likely alternative. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/73 "2008-12-27T22:41:55Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > It doesn’t play into the hands of your enemies, for one. But doing nothing also plays into their hands. In fact, there’s nothing Israel can do or \*not \*do that Hamas can’t turn into a PR vctory. So why should we even care? They’ll believe what they want to believe, and there’s nothing anyone can do to change it. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/74 "2008-12-27T22:44:03Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > The second is not realistic; the first is not an alternative. Until the second happens there will be no peace. Period. Or to put it otherwise - we’re not interested in any “peace” that doesn’t include the second alternative. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/75 "2008-12-27T22:46:15Z")
> [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](#): > > The peace-loving Israeli government was _forced_ to kill hundreds of people because otherwise a tiny percentage of Palestinians might continue to lob rockets that don’t kill or injure anyone. Obviously. Oh really? What about the fact that in order for Israel to kill the Hamas members that launch these rockets they invariably have to end up killing Palestinian civilians because Hamas places many of their launch locations in places where they know they will enable their own people to die in order to drum up more support for their cause? This is Hamas’ MO…hold up the dead babies from the hospital that got destroyed because that’s where Hamas launched their rocket strike from and say “Look what the evil pig Jews have done again! We must destroy them all!” Fuck Hamas. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/76 "2008-12-27T22:50:46Z")
**Mudkicker** My comment was not aimed at Ireland, it wasn’t even aimed at America, strange as it may seem. Ireland stayed out of WW2 quite legitimately, and I have no problem with that, American stayed out for its own reasons, quite legitimately. My comment was aimed at those two fuckwits **Bosda** and **Danblather** If you reread the latters comments you will find plenty in there more worthy of your offence. It is those two fucking wankers who have smeared the right of freedom of speech with shit, a right that was earned the hardest way of all, its these two fucking shitbags who talk big, talk war, talk hard and generalise about an entire continent, including a snide comment about Ireland. Please direct your ire at them, since they are the ones who have accused us, as a continent of being sympathisers with terrorists, with being anti-semitic, and generally making out that around 730 million (which is more than twice that of the USA) people have exactly the same view, a population which is more ethincaly diverse, speaks over a hundred differant languages, has numerous differant currnecies, and legal systems, and yet somehow we are all the same, we all are supporters of Hamas. You have no argument with me, I have not made any criticism of you or yours. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/77 "2008-12-27T22:51:41Z")
> [@Sevastopol](#): > > People with an interest in history often inquire how whole societies come to take part in frank evil. The studied answer is the same in each case: It begins with a story of imminent and unchangeable malevolence towards them. This is why it is important for rw Israelis to spread the falsehoods quoted above. Without that narrative it would not be possible to brutalise Israeli society and its supporters into the planned shape. This is way over my head.😕 ---
**Author:** ![mudkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@mudkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mudkicker)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/78 "2008-12-27T22:52:44Z")
Fair enough Casdave. Soz. You still want your dick sucked? 🙂 Meh. Practically my first time being rude on the Dope and I get it wrong. Clearly it does not suit me. Back to being my usual cloyingly nice self. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/79 "2008-12-27T22:53:05Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > Of course it is. In fact, it’s the most likely alternative. I was proposing alternatives to the status quo; indefinite perpetuation of it is excluded by definition. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2008, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867/80 "2008-12-27T22:55:20Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > But doing nothing also plays into their hands. In fact, there’s nothing Israel can do or \*not \*do that Hamas can’t turn into a PR vctory. So why should we even care? They’ll believe what they want to believe, and there’s nothing anyone can do to change it. You can let them believe what they want to believe, and gradually talk them out of doing anything about it (by providing some alternative arrangement that in actual practice is acceptable to them). Ahmadinejad **says** Israel should be wiped off the map, but if I were Israeli I wouldn’t be scared of him. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-hamas/478867.md?page=5)