this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2023
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A Boring Dystopia

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[โ€“] nexguy@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just saying you might want to look closer into Hamas' election. It was a razor thin over Fatah and fewer than 50% of the vote. Then Hamas decided to not hold elections anymore for the past 17 years. Hamas is not popular at all anymore with 70% of gazans wanting the palastinian authority to take over the strip from hamas in a 2023 poll. Hamas saw the writing in the wall and decided to task Israel with creating a whole new generation of grieving and pissed off people which they are quickly doing.

[โ€“] maryjayjay@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I found a demographic breakdown of the population of Gaza by age and I think about 70% of people there are too young to have voted in the last election. And given the 50ish percent margin Hamas won by, is reasonable that only about max 15% of the current population actually voted for them. There's a lot of assumptions and hand waving there, but I don't imagine it's too far off.