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Originally Posted by WCW Nitro
Hamas came to power via elections. Israel has impemented a sea,air, and land blockade in Gaza, and the conditions are such that Human Rights Watch called it an open air prison. Israel just now has blocked fuel and electricity to Gaza. Israel does actions that would be considered as acts of war on a daily basis, but yes let's cheer it on as it once again prepare to go crazy bombing a heavily populated area
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Hamas indeed won elections, in 2006, which proved to be the last elections held in Gaza. However, those were government elections, not president elections, and the president was from Fatah. This led to a bloody conflict in 2007 between Fatah and Hamas, that resulted in all pro-president authorities being killed or expelled. So while the part about winning elections is true, however they came to actual power by forcibly overthrowing non-Hamas president (who also was elected). There were no elections in Gaza ever since. Much like Russia, Gaza failed to build a democracy and fell into a dictatorship.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloc...the_Gaza_Strip
Why you keep talking about Israel blockading Gaza and keep ignoring that Egypt does the same? There was no blockade before Hamas, that is an officially recognized terrorist group, came to power. If Gaza citizens elected them to govern then, what kind of lives they deserve? Russians are suffering - albeit to much lesser extent - because they elected Putin and later failed to stop him from doing whatever he pleases. Peoples prosper if they keep a tight grip on their country. Peoples suffer if they lose control and let madmen run their state. Gaza citizens are suffering because they voted for terrorists. Unsurprisingly, that proved to be the last time they had a chance to vote.