Every time I criticized today’s Hamas parade & said it’s damaging our cause, many promptly pointed out how Israel returned hundred of unidentifiable bodies of Gazans they murdered, put in garbage bags, piled in a truck & dumbed, & they ask “Why didn’t this damage Israel’s case? Where was the world’s outrage? What did they do about this?”
The selectivity, apathy, double standards, hypocrisy & complicity of the international community has always been one of the greatest weakening forces of Palestinian moderates.
It provides an easy way out for Hamas from any tough conversation or accountability. They’d always effortlessly say “What did the world do when Israel did the same & way worse? Why were they silent?”
With that said, our principles should NEVER be contingent on the behaviour of our oppressor!
Pointing out the mistakes of a Palestinian faction does NOT delegitimize our cause or lend credence to Israel’s & it most definitely does NOT mean opposing, vilifying or sowing doubt about Palestinians’ legal right to resist their slow demise & dispossession, in accordance with international law.
