
Its so absurd for Israel and the west to create some of the harshest living conditions on the planet for people under illegal occupation and then sit back and finger wag at the explosions of violence from said people that were the entirely predictable result of horrifically inhumane policies. If you spend really any time condemning hamas for some type of unique moral failure then you have fallen for propaganda narratives that were written far before October 7th
Who made you the arbiter of morals? I’m an anti-Zionist Jew and I’ll say with my chest that every Israeli is complicit in their fascist and genocidal project. They are straight up Nazis and are morally identical to the fascists who exterminated my ancestors during the holocaust of bullets in Ukraine.
I think I made pretty clear that I was talking about adults over 18, meaning they served in the IDF. Hence why I challenged the claim that Hamas targeted children (obviously implying that would be wrong). Call me a kapo all you want, but you sound identical to a German decrying the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
That’s like saying an opposition to violence requires you to condemn a child for striking their abusive father. I think most people are against all violence ideologically but I don’t think that conviction requires you to critique the child in my example or Palestinians in Gaza as if they are proponents of violence. They did one of the exceptionally few things they were able to do in response to extreme violence and oppression.
The other option is to lie down and take it, to be killed or displaced. It’s just not in human nature to do that, it’s unnatural for any non human animal too. A cornered raccoon isn’t an inherently violent creature for attacking the person cornering it, the violence is the fault of the person who cornered the guy in the first place
It was some civilians. The Israelis made sure of that, yes. Through illegal occupation the Israelis made sure that Palestine could not have a workable military or weapons anywhere nearly capable of attacking a military superpower. They made sure that Palestinians did not have freedom of navigation to stage attacks elsewhere. Made sure that the Palestinian population were used to seeing their own civilians slaughtered every day. What else could be the result of such policies?
I mean nothing alive wants to be murdered, myself included. But we live in the capital of an empire and our riches come from the suffering of others all around the world. Would I pass moral judgement on someone from the third world wishing or carrying out violence against the us? That is, simply retaliating in the smallest way with respect to our own crimes? Not really