but you can’t admit Hamas are terrorists, because you support what they do
You are jumping to your conclusions and directing dishonest accusations at me.
The UN do not designate Hamas as a terrorist group. Do they support Hamas?
No they do not.
So stop being so pathetically and dishonestly silly.
As Israel reels from the deadliest terror attack in years by Hamas, the United Nations Security Council still does not recognize or sanction Hamas as a terror group — despite multiple other nations declaring it to be so.
The U.N. Security Council still does not recognize or sanction Hamas as a terror group as it does with Al Qaeda and ISIS, despite U.S. pressure.
www.foxnews.com
That illustrates the political motivation for some states to designate Hamas as terrorists.
I suspect the reason is complex, maybe too complex for this forum, because some dishonest poster is bound to misinterpret what I'm about to present:
First of all there is no agreed international definition of "terrorism", and by extrapolation "terrorist".
Although the term is not subject to a universally agreed definition, terrorism can be broadly understood as a method of coercion that utilizes or threatens to utilize violence in order to spread fear and thereby attain political or ideological goals
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That definition applies equally to Hamas
and Israel.
I called the earlier definition which excludes states from the potential designation as 'carefully crafted' because that's what it was. Carefully crafted to exclude states from being designated as terrorists, and to mask the politically motivation behind the designating Hamas as terrorists.
it is often not possible to reach universal agreement, for instance, regarding the designation of “terrorist” groups. For similar reasons, since matters of “terrorist” motivations can be politically sensitive
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According to the UN definition, that (terrorism) is exactly what Israel is now doing, threatening a ground invasion and thus threatening the population of Northern Gaza to evacuate or else. They have also isolated the whole of Gaza for food, fuel, water, medical supplies and power. This was in addition to decades of sanctions.
Then there is the complexity of military responses:
If it is a declared war, the response comes under the international rules of war, and civilian casualities should be avoided, and prisoners of war should be properly treated.
If however it is a limited response to an act of terrorism, then the rule of domestic law applies.
Israel conflates and confuses its response. And both internaional rules and domestic rules have been repeatedly ignored by Israel.
Secondly, there are four identiable reasons for "terrorist" actions. (I'm using the words "terrorist actions" simply for convenience)
... terrorist actors are motivated differentially through four goal-oriented strains: socialism, nationalism, religious extremism or exclusionism.
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Hamas is clearly not a religious extremist organisation. it has much more a nationalist goal.
As a movement, it tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people)
en.wikipedia.org
As such the UN does not designate Hamas (nor Hezbollah) as terrorists.
So stop your dishonest accusations and see the bigger picture.
That applies to the other dishonest posters making incorrect and baselss accusations.
