Hamas was literally formed as a reaction to the continued illegal occupation of Palestinian territories
Hamas was literally formed because the Palestinian government was becoming too secular and was too interested in peace with Israel.
Here is an interview, with quotes, and details, with a literal expert on th subject who is also Pro-Palestinian.
How Hamas got elected:
KEAR: The key Fatah people - most of Fatah are living in the diaspora. They're the ones living in the four-story houses, driving around in their gold Mercedes. They're not experiencing the day-to-day privations of the occupation, whereas Hamas - they're a product of the occupation. You can see them walking in the streets. You can see them at the market. People may not necessarily agree with their narrative, with the - as an Islamist movement. They get a lot of respect for the fact that they live amongst the community.
ARABLOUEI: As the first intifada went on, many Palestinians became more and more frustrated not only with the occupation but with the PLO/Fatah as it attempted to negotiate a two-state solution with Israel.
ELGINDY: The reality was that Fatah and some of the smaller parties were interested in joining a peace process that would result in a compromise situation of a West Bank and Gaza state.
KEAR: And certainly by this stage, 1987, 20 years of occupation - what have the PLO done? When I say PLO, what has Fatah done? Nothing, virtually. We've been fighting for 20 years, resisting for 20 years. Nothing has changed. In fact, it's actually gotten worse, where we are further away from an independent state than we've ever been before.
Israel did not become aggressive to Hamas until after they began terrorist activities.
BACONI: "Hamas Contained: The Rise And Pacification Of Palestinian Resistance." When Hamas was established out of that structure and it began to engage in resistance activities...
ARABLOUEI: Like attacks on military posts and abducting Israeli soldiers.
BACONI: ...Immediately, Israel's approach to dealing with Hamas changed, and it stopped being one of approval. It started being an antagonistic relationship because obviously now it's a resistance party.
HACHAM: In retrospective, I think this was - I call it the original sin of the Israeli authorities - Israeli security authorities that did not understand that period of time what can be developed of this innocent organization movement, al-Mujama al-Islamiya.
I firmly believe everyone even emotionally aligning with Hamas has some very serious issues. I never condoned the killing of any civilian, and never will.
Disgust with Hamas's atrocities does not imply that I support the deaths of civilians in any way.
I would imagine any group of people who are experiencing a genocide
Hamas took over the country in 2007, after Israel had left Gaza. They then promptly canceled elections forever, declared Jihad, and began torturing dissidents to death.
They have not only actively fought a 2-state solution and secularization, but have opposed Israel normalizing relations with neighbors, because their goal is the eradication of Israel.
Moreover, Hamas has stolen aid money, impeded and corrupted aid groups, and restricted access to medical supplies and food to solidify their own power.
There is no defense for Hamas, and referring to them as a "resistance group" is both inherently dishonest and empowering to the terror organization.
This discussion is not and has never been about Gazan's - this discussion is about OP calling them a "resistance group with some radical elements" which they are not.
I definitely understood, yes. Hamas is not a "resistance org", and they don't have a "few extremists". Every member of Hamas is an extremist who is willing to torture and murder Palestinians who challenge them.
That is not a resistance group. They are all extremists, by definition, because Hamas is a Jihadist Islamist group, even if you take Israel completely off the table.
In their own words:
“Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes,” Hamas said in its first statement in the late 1980s.
Support for the Palestinian people neither requires, nor implies, support for Hamas, and support for Hamas is, definitionally, not support for the Palestinian people.
For further clarity on why this was a funny mixup, to anyone who sees this, Plex is also a thing, but it is a very different thing, just with a very similar name.
Prices on goods rise when demand for goods stays sufficient to support the price going up. The less everyone buys, the less things will cost.
Prices for goods have almost nothing to do with the price of rent, but the mechanisms there are the same - it's just that you have to encourage building rather than "live somewhere less" because the second option really isn't tenable, for obvious reasons.
If you want rent to come down, campaign for, vote for, or even run for office to be the candidate that will change zoning laws and encourage building multifamily housing.
Their employer is treating them like a tipped employee, which is so embedded into society's fabric that we have a separate tax code for it.
You not liking that is not any different from you liking a given law. You're free to not participate, but expect there to be consequences, and one of those is for people to assume you're intentionally being an asshole, not protesting a perceived injustice.
If they were committing genocide, sure.