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Sentiments like that are an excuse. You could have said something very similar about the IRA in Ireland before its independence from the UK, or the ANC in South Africa during apartheid. You’re essentially asking people to peacefully accept their oppression. If it was you, is that really what you’d do?

“Sympathy” is not much use in situations like these. “Sorry your people are being murdered” doesn’t really help.

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>You’re essentially asking people to peacefully accept their oppression

When you get arrested, do you fight back and resist?

That’s an awful false equivalence. We’re not talking about people being arrested by their own government with, presumably, probable cause. We’re talking about people - innocent civilians, including children - being murdered just for existing.

If the choice is fighting back or being killed, many people will choose to fight back. If you’re fighting back against a state, then the form that fighting back will take is asymmetric warfare, which is typically described as “terrorism” by the state doing the murdering.

But with all this in mind, you want to sit back and say, “They really ought to be more polite about it.”

>We’re talking about people - innocent civilians, including children - being murdered just for existing.

This is exactly what HAMAS did on October 7th attacks - they choose to target civilians

There have been attacks on Israel long before there was "oppression" of Palestine. You're just making a circular argument, you can say the same thing to justify what Israel is doing. I think saying Hamas is justified is actually grotesque, they also starve the people of Palestine, sell of children and women into sex slavery, intentionally put civilians in just as much harms way. How is doing that justified as a reaction to Israel exactly?

They aren't a Robin Hood like resistance. You're actually just siding with a different oppressor.

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