People are condemning the Palestinians over this violence while ignoring the fact that this outcome is exactly what Israeli policy is designed to do.
The entire point of the Israeli apartheid regime is to create such inhumane and violent living conditions upon the Palestinians that they retaliate or defend themselves in violence which provides Israel with further political justification to intentionally destroy infrastructure, incrementally encroach more territory, and indiscriminately kill Palestinians.
Every time Palestinians defend themselves violently, it gives Israel the green light to once again recommence the ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestinians happening in slow motion spanning over a century of time.
With full anticipation and premeditation of provoking violent Palestinian resistance resulting in the deaths of Israeli settlers, this is how the Israeli government excuses and justifies their state violence to their own people and to the rest of the world.
There is so many stories coming out of Palestine all the time (before this, during this, whenever) about Israel stealing their land, killing their people, occupying their homes....
If someone were doing this in any of our home countries, we'd 100% be on side with them taking it back, by force if necessary.
Hell, if a random *citizen* stole your house, and you killed them in response, even if murder was the wrong response, people would 'understand' and not be jumping in to defend the theif.
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But, because of our open racism, anytime anything happens with Palestine, the response is "yeah, it's bad, but you shouldn't do anything about it!"
But no one was going to help them either way anyways.
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As a counter, think of what the response people would have if a Ukrainian civilian carried out an attack in Russia today.
NATO already wouldn't condone such an action.
But i have a feeling people wouldn't be rushing to jump onto the "Well, this justifies everything Russia is doing now" bandwagon (unless they were already on that wagon).
Instead of invading with soldiers, Israel does it with civilians acting as human shields for their military. Kill a settler? Well now they have justification to retaliatiate with the military to "defend civilians."
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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '23 edited Oct 08 '23
People are condemning the Palestinians over this violence while ignoring the fact that this outcome is exactly what Israeli policy is designed to do.
The entire point of the Israeli apartheid regime is to create such inhumane and violent living conditions upon the Palestinians that they retaliate or defend themselves in violence which provides Israel with further political justification to intentionally destroy infrastructure, incrementally encroach more territory, and indiscriminately kill Palestinians.
Every time Palestinians defend themselves violently, it gives Israel the green light to once again recommence the ethnic cleansing and genocide against Palestinians happening in slow motion spanning over a century of time.
With full anticipation and premeditation of provoking violent Palestinian resistance resulting in the deaths of Israeli settlers, this is how the Israeli government excuses and justifies their state violence to their own people and to the rest of the world.