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Palestinian uprising on a scale not seen in 50 years just started
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Doing "DAE leftists don't care about human life enough??" shit when the people being killed and wounded are literally, and I cannot stress this enough, literally settler-colonists part of a genocidal regime, is incredible. In the meaning of "beyond credulity". My god. No, Israelis shouldn't be punished for being Israelis, nor for being Jewish - they should be punished for being racist settlers! That's the entire argument!
But even if we accept this argument - okay, okay, Palestinians should be morally-perfect, all-rational beings - what is the actual alternative? They want to fight back. Where do they punch? Where do they shoot their guns? If you say "They shouldn't, they should do things peacefully," then congratulations, you are indisguishable from a western liberal, you only differ on whether Palestinians are subhuman or not. If you say "They should only shoot troops and try and either leave unarmed civilians alone or take them hostage and not kill them," that is what they are broadly attempting to do right now. Because Israel has a mandatory draft, the difference between civilian and soldier becomes blurred. Does this civilian have combat training? Do they have a weapon hidden? If you say "They should assault the government, not the people," - how? How do they do that without their convoy en route to the government buildings being bombed into smithereens?
some days leftists will be like "unlimited genocide on the first world, another kkkrackkka down, we will not apologize for the terror" but as soon as a group of long-oppressed people start actually doing shit, and that shit is extremely imperfect because of the human condition of not being all-knowing, all-powerful moral beings 24/7, then they start being like "hm maybe we shouldn't support them, DAE both sides bad??"