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Israeli forces shoot at UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, wounding two
(www.middleeasteye.net)
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You realize that Hamas is a fascist organization. Don't you?
Fascism isn't actually about specific ethnicities. It isn't even about being specifically antisemitic, though Hamas most definitely has that going on.
Fascism is about promoting strongman to protect people from the other, the other usually being of a different ethnicity and/or religious group. The other is paradoxically both strong and weak. It's about promoting a return to a past ethnic makeup of a region to how it was in the history book, ie. blood and soil. It's about using past humiliations to entice people into accepting the strongman as their leader. It's about de-legitimizing democracy and the free press. It's about using violence to achieve these goals, including the use of ethnic cleansing and genocide. It's about maintaining a violent fervour and a hatred towards the enemy so people don't question the strongman's leadership.
Hamas fits this description. If you're in the same movement as Hamas, you're at best alt-right, or at worst a fascist. I know among your fringe group you don't talk about yourselves that way and will put on blinders to avoid seeing Hamas for what it is. But people outside of your little group actually do see Hamas for what it is and see you for who you are.
If you could stop subjecting yourself to imagery meant to keep you in a violent fervour for even a few days you might begin to question the leadership of the strongman Yahya Sinwar which has resulted in the destruction of Gaza. But you probably won't do that because you're stuck in an endless emotional manipulation loop. And that's exactly how fascism works.