2023, in September, there was an article from AP News revealing that 2023 was the deadliest year for Palestinian children to be the last twenty years. The causes of death? The IDF. Exclusively. 10/7 happened because Israel has been causing escalating violence for the last 20 years after 60 years of mild to extreme violence.

I can’t reconcile

Israel has slowly settled additional territory

with

There is no excuse for terrorism

The IDF is stealing land, making people homeless, burning crops, murdering Palestinians, and so on.

What is an appropriate response in your view?

Everyone has already explained the contradiction in this statement, so let me just point out that what you call “peace” isn’t peace. It’s successful oppression where you simply don’t need to hear about the plight of the oppressed. Gazans were still being bombed, starve and intentionally kept on the brink of economic collapse (by Israel’s own words). West Bank people were still having their lands and homes razed and stolen and their family killed. East Jerusalem citizens (or should I say residents) were still being evicted for not paying rent on their own land. Smotrich still considered his life’s mission to be preventing the formation a Palestinian state. The most powerful man in Israel was still the same man who had crumpled peace and threw it in the trash 30 years ago. And Israelis were cheering on all this shit.

I repeat: That was not peace. That was Israel successfully hiding the oppression from Western eyes (that weren’t paying attention). Do you blame Nelson Mandela for breaking the “peace” black Africans had with the Apartheid government? What about the Irish in the Troubles?

As I see it, Hamas’s biggest victory as a resistance organization in the last 20 years was forcing Israel to be very loud about their genocidal tendencies. No quiet oppression and ethnic cleansing like what they get away with in thr West Bank. The culmination of this was October 7th, which brought Israeli oppression to the forefront of international discourse. Now whether it’s worth it is another story, but the decline in Israeli popular support in the West over the last 20 years is almost completely Hamas’s doing, along with everyone who then reported on it. Breaking the “peace” is the only way Palestinians will ever be free.

“pacified” isn’t “peaceful”. They control the actual water, power and access into and out of Palestine. There’s nothing above-board that isn’t within their power to cut off at a whim.

That’s absolute power over a group they hate. You learned what absolute power does, right? You know what hate does?

The media’s acceptance of anything bibi has done since coming into power has caused a lot of shady shit to be ignored. Really bad stuff.

I don’t condone violence but I know I’m not the jurist to pass judgement over 10/7 or a hundred things before it. I have food, water, and a safe bed, and I have no frame of reference to understand the context under which a people treated like starving dogs for 3 generations have risen up to bite their unwanted master.

But I can opine on a people who condemn guerilla warfare on one hand and commit actual terrorism with the other.

There is no excuse for terrorism.

Oh, look. Liberals ignoring Israeli terrorism for the last 76 years as long as their precious “free press” can pretend it’s “relatively peaceful.”

Hamas did nothing wrong. Period.

Ahhh, yes. So you prefer quiet suffering to loud suffering so you can more easily ignore it. Me too, bro. Me too.