Anthony M Leong
2 min readFeb 7, 2024

I'm sorry but I cannot agree with you at all. One demonstration against Hamas does not indicate any sort of downfall or even lack of support for what they allegedly stand for. It merely means it's a demonstration which numerically is overwhelmed by the world-wide demonstrations against the Israeli government, Bibi and their genocidal behaviour.

You have every right to an opinion, but if you carefully examine your list of Hamas demands, why are they bad? Ceasing war is not bad. Israeli withdrawal from illegally-occupied territories as ratified by the UN is not bad - it's actually required by international law which the Israeli administration has flouted over many decades. Release of "convicted criminals" in most cases involves many who have protested against Israel by throwing stones at tanks. Stones vs live rounds. Are you serious this is a 'crime'? Finally, preservation of Hamas' structure is not the same as demanding governing of Gaza (or anywhere else for that matter). It means they don't want to be dismantled violently or otherwise by Israel. That's hardly bad or unreasonable for any organisation.

While you might be a bot or a shill for Netanyahu's hated and hateful regime, as a human you appear to not be mindful of the suffering, anguish and death visited upon 2.6M people turned from a proud people to begging refugees, where every single person knows of the death of someone they loved or cared for. You seem oblivious to the fact that as brutal and terrible as they are, Hamas is born of suffering under pressure-cooker conditions, and are a result of that pressure, not a cause. While Hamas is in part obviously self-seeking, they serve another larger cause, that of freeing Palestine and the Palestinians. Your assertions not only add fuel to the fire, but ignore suffering on a major scale.

Propaganda is rife in this war, but I am not a soldier but hopefully someone who cares about humanity. I care just as much about the 'normal' Israeli as I do about the Palestinian in a refugee hut with little water, food or clothing apart from what they are wearing. The difference is that one group needs urgent humanitarian assistance now and it is being denied by the other group's government.

Your wilful blindness to a crisis is almost laughable, were the tragic outcomes not so obscene. Maybe by viewing more posts like mine you will find balance!

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Anthony M Leong
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