Sure agreed if they didn't know, but it seems like there was at least a Hamas cell inside the UNRWA that did:
Inside one of the UNRWA buildings, journalists saw a room full of computers with wires stretching down into the ground. Soldiers then showed them a room in the underground tunnel where they claimed the wires connected.
This article seems to allege electrical and communication cables were run through the ground between the UNRWA headquarters and the tunnel network?
If true they buried the lede here. Idgaf where the tunnels are - when you dig a miles long tunnel, it'll go under a lot of unrelated buildings. If however the headquarters was serving as a communication relay and power supply, then that's pretty damning.
Agreed but that isn't weird. When's the last time an American president had popular support while in power? 2009? They legally won an election, which means the Palestinian people put them in charge. There was no waltzing, at gunpoint or otherwise.
That they didn't as you say "waltz in at gun point". Just as the German people of the time had some responsibility for the rise of Hitler, so must the Palestinian people of today bear some responsibility for putting Hamas in power.
Hence my comments about Hamas's popular support in polling.
Of course they were, but they also won an election
They elected them and in recent polling generally support them, especially for doing the October 7th attack
Yes, but those are from AQI (Al-Qaeda in Iraq). We're talking about Afghanistan, which is like 2000km away from where ISIS operates.
And again, whether you think the American response to 9/11 was good or not is irrelevant to my original comment.
Ignoring for the moment that ISIS is from Iraq and Syria, I was purely commenting on what would have popular support in Israel. I did not advocate for anything.
Agreed completely, I was oversimplifying and largely not drawing a clean distinction between the various groups.
... The CIA funded Al-Qaeda, which rose out of a population bombed, abused, relocated, and killed for decades before.
It's like, exactly comparable.
Well to use your analogy here, let's say a weed grow operation steals your electricity by plugging extension cords into several outlets and running them through open windows. Further let's say this goes on for years with you living in the house. At a certain point it strains credulity to believe that you aren't in on it.
Something similar seems to have happened here. It doesn't implicate the UNRWA as a whole, but it certainly raises questions about the employees at this location.