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When Israel kills Palestinians—whether through bombing or snipers or blocking medical supplies or any other usual tactic—they (& the servile US media) report it as “self-defense”.
Killing 100s of nonviolent protestors PER WEEK—protestors & observers who are demonstrating
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Killing 100s of nonviolent protestors PER WEEK—protestors & observers who are demonstrating
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INSIDE of Palestinian territory, & who virtually never even touch a single Israeli officer—that’s routinely called “self-defense” by Israel & the US.
But Israel’s only “defending” itself in the sense of any settler-colonial occupier responding to backlash from the indigenous
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But Israel’s only “defending” itself in the sense of any settler-colonial occupier responding to backlash from the indigenous
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population that it’s murderously ethnically-cleansing for the purpose of Israeli demographic-dominance.
Israel’s massacres are only “defense” to the extent of having to FULLY crush the people that Israel has crushed only PARTIALLY, which inconveniently allows the victims to
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Israel’s massacres are only “defense” to the extent of having to FULLY crush the people that Israel has crushed only PARTIALLY, which inconveniently allows the victims to
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keep the capacity to oppose Israel’s slow-genocide upon them.
It’s like entering a house that your ancestors of MILLENIA ago once lived in, but with which you have no direct ties, then bludgeoning to death almost all of the house’s inhabitants, justifying that as
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It’s like entering a house that your ancestors of MILLENIA ago once lived in, but with which you have no direct ties, then bludgeoning to death almost all of the house’s inhabitants, justifying that as
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your “Biblical right”, & then massacring any of the survivors who dare to—against all odds, being unarmed, having no military, yet still—stand up and condemn your actions and demand their internationally-accorded rights.
That’s what “self-defense” means when Israel massacres
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That’s what “self-defense” means when Israel massacres
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unarmed protestors, & also when they launch bombing campaign upon, or incursions into, Palestine.
Israel has the world’s most advanced military, backed by the US.
Palestine has rocks to throw, no real military, & a few *homemade* rockets whose size & capacity Western media
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Israel has the world’s most advanced military, backed by the US.
Palestine has rocks to throw, no real military, & a few *homemade* rockets whose size & capacity Western media
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exaggerate.
Palestine virtually always responds to Israeli military & structural violence w/ NONVIOLENCE, & never IMMEDIATELY w/ armed violence, but only after MONTHS of carnage, finally shooting a homemade “rocket” w/ virtually no capacity for damage.
And, if Israel (7)
Palestine virtually always responds to Israeli military & structural violence w/ NONVIOLENCE, & never IMMEDIATELY w/ armed violence, but only after MONTHS of carnage, finally shooting a homemade “rocket” w/ virtually no capacity for damage.
And, if Israel (7)
wanted to end all hostility w/ Palestine, they’ve known for DECADES how to achieve that OVER NIGHT.
You can’t conduct expansionism, settler-colonialism, & ethnic-cleansing & call it self-defense when you kill Palestinians who struggle against you.
That’s plain genocide.
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You can’t conduct expansionism, settler-colonialism, & ethnic-cleansing & call it self-defense when you kill Palestinians who struggle against you.
That’s plain genocide.
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