Hasan Piker

on state-backed violence which we have a predisposition to lean into no matter what someone fights back against a cop the automatic suspicion is well the police are actually maintaining law and order so it must be a criminal right that might not always be the case so i like to look at this stuff uh with a more open-minded framework where i can try to figure out exactly what led

to a day like October 7 that was unbelievably violent, right?

And I think it's pretty clear that 75 years at that point of ethnic cleansing and apartheid and subjugation was a big part of the driving force.

And as far as Hamas goes, we oftentimes talk about just Hamas.

It's almost like a catch-all term.

Hamas is only one component of the Palestinian resistance.

The Al-Aqsa flood was actually conducted not only by Hamas, but Palestinian Islamic Jihad's own militant forces, PFLP, DFLP, and numerous other, even including Fatah militias as well that still existed in Gaza.

So this was a military operation initially that was...

conducted by virtually every single active organization inside of Gaza.

So it's not, that's why I always say like Hamas is not an alien entity in the way that we think about them or we say, oh, they are, they're these like evil oppressors of the Palestinian people.

Are there disagreements within the Palestinian coalition against Hamas's governance?

Absolutely.

No people are a monolith.

But the only thing that every single Palestinian, with the exception of those who work for like the Atlantic Council or whatever, that are there to just do regime propaganda, do Israel propaganda, with the exception of those people, every Palestinian I've ever talked to, Christian Palestinians, who might even have major disagreements with Hamas,

who might even be critical of Hamas, will always say the number one thing that we want is the end of the occupation, is the end of the apartheid.

The number one thing we want is dignity and sovereignty.

And that is what Hamas has been trying to achieve militarily.

Yeah.

I have a policy of saying the truth unconditionally and standing by my principles, even if that's sometimes hard to hear.

And that's precisely what I did after October 7 on October 8 when I went live and talked about the systematic forces that have led to October 7.