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>For centuries, both jews and palestinians suffered from European oppression. When they achieve liberation and comes the time for them to live in peace, they can't escape behaving to each other like the Europeans did to them.

Well, "to each other" underplays that one side has been left with 1/10th their land.

Parent - child. Manager-employee. Soldier-sergeant. And on and on. It's sadly, part of what makes us human.

Why "sadly"?

We could achieve the same or even greater attrocities without ranks of any kind.

"I was only following orders"

A quick skim of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_(region) says Palestine was controlled by the Mamluk Sultanate since 1260, then by the Ottomans since 1516. So by "European oppression", is he referring to the brief 1915-1948 period, or the pre-1260 Crusader period, that apparently made all the difference?

"Centuries of European oppression" is a very easy anti-White dog whistle because it's often fairly accurate, so it's easy to toss it in to bludgeon a person into submission in a discussion. How unfortunate for the commenter that they peppered in the phrase in one of the few contexts where it's not especially accurate.