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[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Pro Hamas. Right after the latest gruesome terror attacks, she called the terrorists of Hamas "Palestine freedom fighters" and proclaimed that actions by Palestinians were always justified, thereby expressing her support for Hamas and their terror attacks.

https://www.deccanherald.com/world/mia-khalifa-shows-support-to-palestine-amid-crisis-with-israel-sparks-row-2721465

[–] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just took a look at the pinned article but didn't see any pro Hamas tweets, just anti-zionist and pro Palestinian.

Can you quote it for me, I admit I did kinda skim it.

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*She posted on X on Oct 7, which now stands deleted, saying, “Can someone please tell the freedom fighters in Palestine to flip their phones and film horizontal.” She added "If you can look at the situation in Palestine and not be on the side of Pal...

Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/world/mia-khalifa-shows-support-to-palestine-amid-crisis-with-israel-sparks-row-2721465*

The posts were in the article I linked + the one above (might be the same one, I just googled another one that has the quotes - I'm on mobile, don't expect too much ;)). She is not using the name of Hamas, but she is calling them "Palestinian freedom fighters. **It is by the timing that we know that she was talking about Hamas. **

She made those posts shortly after the attacks, when social media was being filled with footage of Hamas. Hamas fighters post videos in portrait format of them gunning down civilians, Mia Khalifa posts shortly after and asks the "Palestinian freedom fighters" for videos in landscape format. So she called the terrorists who were indiscriminately killing civilians, freedom fighters, thereby tacitly supporting their actions. Strike 1.

In a second follow up post, she states that one should always be on the side of Palestinians, implying that in her eyes the atrocities that were committed just hours before, were justified because they were committed by Palestinians. No nuance, exceptions or caveats, for her, anything done in the name of Palestinians against Israël is apparently justified, no matter how heinous. Strike 2.

A 3rd post was about Palestinians tearing down their prison walls, which mostly just went to show how incredibly stupid and ignorant this woman is. It's possible that she misunderstood the situation and thought that those terror attacks were the start of a bigger offensive with the aim of ending Palestine oppression.

There are plenty of people who support fully liberating the west bank without applauding terror attacks against civilians, but she chose to start applauding right after the images of the terror attacks hit the media. It's only much later that she started retracting her statements and proclaiming that she wasn't talking about Hamas.

[–] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Ahhh yeah, I missed that deleted one.

[–] DaDragon@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well to be fully honest, freedom fighters and terrorists are the same thing, just from two perspectives. The average afghani villager probably won’t consider their current government terrorists, even if a large part of the western world does.

One man’s terrrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

An example of what you're saying is the pkk in Turkey. Turkey calls them terrorists, while a lot of people still view them as a party fighting for freedom. But the pkk and it's armed wing have never committed indiscriminate mass massacres of civilians. The endgoal of the pkk is also not the total destruction of the Turks, but rather the self determination of the Kurds.

Hamas on the other hand has as endgame the total genocide of Jews and has no qualms in indiscriminately massacring civilians.

About Hamas there is no nuance: they are genocidal terrorists.

[–] gressen@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no proof Palestinian fighters ‘beheaded’ babies. The only source is a radical settler.

Please be very careful. We don't really know what the truth is but this story may be a part of disinformation effort used right now to justify military action against civilians.

[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ty, I'll edit my comment.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yes, those freedom fighters bravely raped and murdered a music festival full of people for the glory of Palestinian freedom.

[–] Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hamas are Terrorist. They don't fight for freedom they fight for Terror.