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Political pressure builds on Biden to strike Iran after US deaths
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Violence is at least producing results (declining international support for Israel). Peace (the Oslo accords) did nothing except give us the dysfunctional PA and ever-increasing numbers of settlements. Remember the Great March of Return where nothing happened except Palestinians getting shot by laughing IDF snipers? You can't have peace with an oppressor that rejects your existence.
Yes but no. The IRA also relied a lot on car bombing and other blatant terror actions, because nothing else worked. That's the case in Palestine, and in settler colonialist societies in general; when you outnumber the natives (or at least have numerical parity with them), there's no reason to listen to their demands since they have no leverage. That's how you get violence; it's a way to produce leverage out of nothing.
The civil rights act was only passed after the riots that came after MLK's death. There was very much violence involved, though that violence would've been impossible without the base MLK built.
Those two lived in completely different situations. Also they weren't peaceful; they were nonviolent. On the subject of MLK, where are the Israeli youth who are going to march with said Palestinian MLK? Where's the unfair but at least functional justice system they can use to fight against Apartheid? And that's not to mention how Israel's left wing basically rolled over and died in the 80s. The base that MLK used in America simply doesn't exist in Israel. Palestine is under a military occupation; they get tried by military courts and can be shot by Israeli soldiers and civilians with impunity. That's not a situation where you can peacefully resist; the closest anybody got to that was the first Intifada, and look how that turned out.
In Gandhi's case, he correctly observed that the British occupation of India was impossible without the cooperation of Indians, so he called on Indians to completely boycott the occupation government and let it collapse. Palestine is different; Israel can (and is in the case of Gaza) maintain their occupation with exactly 0 Palestinian cooperation. Palestine is a cage with people locked inside by Israeli people with guns, and every other day the cage gets just a little smaller. There's very little you can do in that situation except violent resistance. This is why I prefer the comparison with the Troubles; it gets most accurately the situation Palestine is in across, and why "well they should just negotiate peacefully" doesn't work.
I believe their cause would be a lot more sympathetic if they had stuck to military targets and not simply murdered, raped, kidnapped, tortured, and mutilated israeli civilians, employed suicide bombings, or blindly fired rockets into population centers. For me, any claims of Palestinean righteousness and legitimate resistance evaporated when I watched October 7th footage. I simply cannot see such atrocities as a righteous war for liberation.
I mean yeah no argument there; I'm not defending the atrocities committed on October 7th (that said the attack's targets were military sans hostages, they didn't "simply" murder civilians).
Then did claims of Israeli self-defense evaporate when you watched Gazans being brutally massacred? Punishing all of Gaza (let alone the West Bank which is being caught up in this for some reason) for the crimes inflicted against Israeli citizens is collective punishment.
I've never seen the IDF do anything remotely comparable to the barbarity on display by Hamas. At worst they don't care as much about collateral damage when attacking legal targets as some people say they should, despite taking precautions that no other countries do to minimize civilian deaths during their military operations.
Reacting to a nation collectively when their government declares war on your nation is par for the course. Were Gaza occupied, you'd have a point, that would be collective punishment and therefore a war crime… but Israel unilaterally left Gaza in 2005.
I'm less informed about what's going on in the West Bank, but the news articles I've read seem to indicate that it's mostly settler violence that is the problem there, civilian violence. I hope for everyone's sake that Israel prosecutes and punishes those responsible for crimes.
Have you been keeping up with news the last... three months? They've been shooting civilians carrying white flags, rounding up men and killing them, designating safe zones and bombing them, designating more safe zones and bombing them, blocking aid and everything else under the sun. And to make it worse at least half their bombs are "dumb" non precision bombs. The US took more care in Iraq and they've rightfully been grilled for it.
It's collective punishment regardless, but the UN still considers Gaza to be occupied because of the amount of control Israel has over it.
They won't and you know it. And IDF soldiers openly participate in that "civilian violence", and when a Palestinian tries to defend themselves the IDF shoots them.
None of that holds a candle to the barbarity of what Hamas did on Oct 7. (Warning: NSFL, gore, cruelty, death.)
I'm aware. The UN's anti-Israel bias has been on display lately. I'd argue that a blockade and secure borders is not the same as an occupation, and it seems odd to have to supply a nation that's actively at war with one's own, but they were just ordered to supply Gaza, so... I guess there's not any reason for them to not occupy Gaza again. They're being treated like they are anyway. Unilateral withdrawal didn't prevent any of the legal consequences of being an occupier. It didn't provide safety. I wonder if the settlers will return to Gaza along with the IDF after Hamas is defeated.
More on the argument whether Israel is an occupier or not.
I suspect they will but their attention is elsewhere on more existential matters at the moment.
A lot of hate has been cultivated on both sides and this is a civilian army. This doesn't justify it but I would be surprised if such acts didn't occur. I can only imagine what it would feel like if my friends and family were one of the above victims.