re: #35 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Oh, of course there were plenty of dissenters in Nazi Germany…they just didn’t say squat until after the war was over, when suddenly everybody was a “Good German.” Might have had something to do with the fact that any who spoke up about their opposition while the Reich was still in power had a tendency to end up dead in the streets by way of “lead poisoning,” courtesy of the Gestapo. Likewise there may be plenty of those who disagree with Hamas and want peace with Israel, only Hamas has a word for them: “collaborators.” And the vocal ones have a life expectancy measured in hours and minutes.

That’s part and parcel of my point. If the truth could somehow be determined, I would bet support for Hamas is alot lower than it seems from the outside, and I would further bet that the elections there are anything but free and fair. Hamas is the occupier in Gaza, but that isn’t at all the same thing as Hamas being synonymous with the population there.

I bristle when I see the entire populace of that area painted with one brush, because I know for a fact that it just isn’t true, and because that is exactly the way Israelis are characterized by their enemies.