• idoubledo@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Hamas’s missiles directed towards Israeli civilians and you choose to compare Israel to Russia. Your propoganda is showing…

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      1 year ago

      Do you consider Hamas the aggressor in the overall context of the Israel- Palestinian conflict?

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          1 year ago

          Colonizers are always responsible for any violence that follows.

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            1 year ago

            So if Native Americans fired rockets on e.g. Corpus Christi, Texas, they would have no responsibility at all for this action?

            I am not denying the responsibility of “the colonizers”, I think other people can also have some responsibility.

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              1 year ago

              They’d be justified.

              The point is to not condemn the oppressed without regard for their oppression.

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                1 year ago

                Where in this thread did someone “condemn the oppressed without regard for their oppression”?

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          Sometimes yes. I know very little about the Israelo-palestinian confilct (only what I read from news outlet) so I can’t say anything for sure here.

          But more generally, in history, there have been plenty of conflicts that were one side’s responsability: Ukraine’s invasion, WW2, colonie’s independance “wars”… IMO, when you defend yourself from an agression, you are not responsible for the conflict.

          In this case, I tend to agree with other commentors - Israel seems to have been increasingly oppressive and brutal at least in the past 2 decades, and you can only push people so far before they react.