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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

it doesn't suck for you to take the high road, you're sitting in the west living a comfortable life, it's super easy for you to 'condemn' both sides and go on with your day. what are Gazans supposed to do? they're living in hell on earth, and the entire world had turned their backs on them.

peacefully protest? they've tried that

try to get the word out about how bad their situation is? they've tried that

what should they have done instead? just do nothing and let Israel keep building settlements and murdering them and commit a slow genocide? I can't blame them for violently struggling in whatever means possible. even under international law, occupied populations have the right to engage in armed struggle. it sucks that it came to this, but Israel is responsible for every death that happens because they want to commit genocide against the native population rather than peacefully coexist.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Occupied populations absolutely have the right to engage in an armed struggle, just not the right to murder...

I do sit in an ivory tower here, but so do you, and that doesn't make either of our words ring less true.

Take the words and actions of MLK, somebody who actually accomplished great social change while not living in that ivory tower.

Hate begets hate.