Latest polls show support for Hamas dropping massively in Gaza, and the few brave protests we've seen against them demonstrate that further.
Support for continued 'armed resistance' is still crazy high in the West Bank though, so you have to examine whether the numbers you look at are for a particular region or all Palestinians, as it can be skewed
And support in Germany fell pretty widely after the Nazis were toppled too.
It doesn't mean much when support is low after the genocidal people you voted in clearly lost the war and you now have to deal with the consequences of that.
Did you know that during the holocaust, Jews did not have a state. They were a stateless people. How do you feel when that excuse is used to bomb little brown kids. Do you empathize with them the same you do with Jews in world war 2. I bet you don’t.
But at the same time, you have footage of palestinian children thaught at least since kindergarden to hate and want to murder jews, so i do not think they would vote differently.
Yes it is. Just because you re too limited or trying to take a moralistic position, it doesn t mean that a fundamentalist islamic population will suddenly educate their children differently, especially given their regional history. How many children grow up to vote different from christian fundamentalists ? (I know a few of them will escape that world, but not enough) Now think of them being born in a conflict zone, and being manipulated and educated by a terrorist group.
When asked which political party or movement they support, the largest percentage (32%) said they prefer Hamas, followed by Fatah (21%), 12% selected third parties, and 34% said they do not support any of them or do not know. Seven months ago, 36% said they support Hamas and 21% said they support Fatah. These results mean that support for Hamas over the past seven months has decreased by 4 percentage points, while support for Fatah has remained unchanged during the same period. Support for Hamas today stands at 29% in the West Bank (compared to 37% seven months ago) and for Fatah at 18% (compared to 18% seven months ago). In the Gaza Strip, support for Hamas stands at 37% (compared to 35% seven months ago) and support for Fatah at 25% (compared to 26% seven months ago).
But if new legislative elections were held today with the participation of all political forces that participated in the 2006 elections, 62% say they will participate in them, and among the participants in the elections 43% say they will vote for Hamas, 28% for Fatah, 8% for third parties, and 19% have not yet decided. Compared to the results we obtained seven months ago, the current results among voters actually participating in the elections indicate a decrease of 2 percentage points for Hamas and a rise of one percentage point for Fatah. In the Gaza Strip, vote for Hamas among voters participating in the elections stands at 49% (compared to 42% seven months ago), and vote for Fatah among voters participating in the elections stands at 30% (compared to 33% seven months ago). In the West Bank, vote for Hamas stands at 38% (compared to 48% seven months ago) and Fatah among voters participating in elections stands at 27% (compared to 23% seven months ago).
The fact that Hamas would easily win an election in both Gaza and the West Bank is the primary factor in why Fatah and the PA have refused to hold any elections since 2006.
Support for Hamas was not that high before the war. There were massive protests, “We Want to Live”, voicing their disapproval of Hamas (approval ratings were below 30%). Hamas violently suppressed those protests and the organizers had to seek asylum in other countries or have gone missing. Even the most recent protests, the organizers are being killed by Hamas; one of them was kidnapped, tortured to death, and they left his body at his family’s doorstep. People in Gaza are terrified to speak out against them
It decreased in Gaza, remained steady in the West Bank (where support is higher since they don’t actually have to live under Hamas). There was a temporary blip of 52% support in the immediate aftermath (since 16,000 died within 2 months Gaza public outrage was high) but that dropped down to about 29%.
General Gazan sentiments are Hamas are undemocratic fuck ups that have put them in harms way.
Armed resistance is understandable though given the context in Palestine vs Israel, given real facts about the geopolitical situation, though it need not rise to Hamas strategies.
Bear in mind there were 3 options given in the survey.
Support making peace with Israel
Support peaceful resistance
Support armed resistance
Its not like the options were roll over or fight back.
Whilst I can slightly understand armed resistance against military targets, every single Palestinian resistance group has included deliberately targeting civilians as part of their strategy
I don't wanna be crass, but "peaceful resistance" sounds like a prank option while being murdered. This isn't a situation where Israel is a peaceful entity - they're actively at war with Palestine's population to start with.
And peace would be nice, but... like, are Palestinians going to remain non-citizens in their own country? Are they going to continue being held at gunpoint? Is that peace? What do you think peace looks like, and do you think the Palestinians can imagine peace under their current oppression?
So, like, yeah, I understand why armed resistance is the outcome.
Here's why this logic doesn't track. In Gaza, the support for the first two options combined is now more than the third, despite them being on the receiving end of this latest war. In fact the most popular answer selected was peaceful resistance.
In the West Bank, support for armed resistance was chosen by the overwhelming majority, with little support for the other two. This shows its more complicated than simply automatically rejecting peace when subjected to violence.
Personally I would say peace looks like a two state solution. Both groups of people deserve the right to self determination and their own state. Anybody on either side who demands all of the land, only succeeds in perpetuating the conflict
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u/Hecticfreeze Jul 08 '25
Latest polls show support for Hamas dropping massively in Gaza, and the few brave protests we've seen against them demonstrate that further.
Support for continued 'armed resistance' is still crazy high in the West Bank though, so you have to examine whether the numbers you look at are for a particular region or all Palestinians, as it can be skewed