Falcon29
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Thanks for your sensible reply...I can understand your pain and frustration....But sometimes if you do not control your pain and frustration then you may send wrong message to your friends too..
Here is my impression about this issue....
1- Middle east is a hugely political issue...One nation occupy another nation territory...So it is a political and national issue.
2- It has religious flavor too...The religion angle is that fight or Muslim vs Non Muslim
But the challenge is that most of the people around the world may feel the pain of this struggle of your people..But the moment, you or the people supporting you starts using the word eliminating Israel from the map, it is a warning sign for most of the other nation...You have to believe that Israel is going no where...You like it or not...You can not simply kill an entire nation just because you do not like them...They may be bad people by your assumption but the world now does not work like that way.
So you should present your case to the world as a humanitarian issue rather than religious issue...Then major stake holders like US,West,Europe and even Arab world with Sunni majority people may allign with you..Your association with Hamas is simply suicidal...Your reason may be legitimate but it will lead you no where....
Although most of the Muslim world talks about religious union so much on internet, but in real life, their nation and their country are more important to them than religion....That is why if you see, Arab world is developing very first economically and technologically too....Religion based movement has very few takers in this time...Examples are very self evident in front of you..
So you are people who are educated and you have the information of different ideas from different world...Try a different approch and speak with your people....Already generation of youth is lost from your side..How long this humantarian crisis will continue? Every Muslim nation can sympathize with you and they can send some financial assistance after war is complete...But till the point US, Europe,China, Russia and other major powers controls the geo politics of this world, no religion based movement will succeed...
There are two issues here. One of them is as you said presenting our case to the world. It is being done by Westerners/Palestinian Westerners. It is gaining tide in the international world and polls support this. I agree with you that the Arab world lacks a union to be more influential in this.
The second issue is see it like this. You are Indian, you look at the foreign world for your affairs. But, at the same time you look up to your people/military. This is the same with me, I'm a military enthusiast as most people are on this forum. I see some responsibility for our cause is purely local(Arab) and Palestinian(Hamas/PA). I've experienced the history, others haven't so it would be difficult to explain why many support armed resistance. My opinion is that it's unfair to disregard them for being a religious movement. Religion drives the Arab world, we can't separate that from them. But, it doesn't get rid of rationality/logic(Except for cases like ISIS).
Hamas is an educated bunch from amongst the Palestinian people. They don't mimic any movements around the Muslim world besides some like Hezbollah which also differ on some issues. Hamas isn't the only one movement in Palestine which believes in the right to arm our people. PFLP for example is a liberal secular movement which also believes in the same right. Most Palestinians see all these movements as united under one cause and one government(recently announced unity government).
So for us Arabs, we believe that in our region/land it's our right to support our resistance/military elements of the society. Because we Palestinians are occupied though, some people strip this right from us. The international world won't get involved since the world is preoccuipped with issues/interests that are largely dictated by economic interests and capitalism. The Palestinians had most of their resources taken by Israel so they can't offer anything to the world if they don't get sovereignty. And Israel doesn't want that since we would compete with their economy. No matter what we do to get a two state solution the other side will reject it and the international world will remain impartial.
So the importance lies on the Arab world. Religion/public support/Arab nationislism are fabrics of the society which can't go away.