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Belgium Considers Recognizing State of Palestine, Vows Sanctions Against Israel (www.moroccoworldnews.com)

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Belgium announced that it is considering recognizing the state of Palestine, vowing to impose sanctions against Israeli occupation forces due to its genocidal war on Gaza.

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[-] Pipoca@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

The last I checked, the USA didn't come into existence from suicide bombings at busses and restaurants, and massacres of civilians at music festivals.

According to Wikipedia,

The IRA's offensive campaign mainly targeted the British Army (including the UDR) and the RUC, with British soldiers being the IRA's preferred target.[15][236] Other targets included British government officials, politicians, establishment and judicial figures, and senior British Army and police officers.[237][238] The bombing campaign principally targeted political, economic and military targets, and was described by counter-terrorism expert Andy Oppenheimer as "the biggest terrorist bombing campaign in history".[239] Economic targets included shops, restaurants, hotels, railway stations and other public buildings.[229] The IRA was blamed for the Abercorn Restaurant bombing in March 1972, when a bomb exploded without warning killing two women and injuring many people.[n 23][240] Due to negative publicity after the Abercorn bombing, the IRA introduced a system of telephoned coded warnings to try and avoid civilian casualties while still causing the intended damage to properties and the economy.[n 24][245] Civilian deaths were counter-productive to the IRA, as they provided the British with propaganda coups and affected recruitment and funding.[246] Despite this IRA bombs continued to kill civilians, generally due to IRA mistakes and incompetence or errors in communication.

Hamas, though, has deliberately targeted civilians for decades. Their goal hasn't been economic damage but as many Israeli deaths as possible.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 5 points 1 year ago

Last i checked USA also conduct ethnic cleansing of the indigenous people of America and call them discriminatory name, and when they fight back they called them terrorist.

And they also own slave. And there's also war about slavery.

[-] quackers 4 points 1 year ago

yeahh.. maybe not the point you wanna make

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