Additionally a huge portion of the dead were at the techno festival and at the kibbutzim.
That’s right, but that’s also where the friendly fire took place, according to Asa Winstanley’s article that I linked.
Look, all in all it’s probably true that Hamas murdered several hundred civilians that day regardless. But I also don’t think there’s a viable way for a paramilitary group based in Gaza to do an uprising against Israel that doesn’t end with several hundred civilians dead, as I explained, because Israel is a settler-colony and the use of settlers as the tip of the spear of the Israeli effort to settle Palestine is a central part of the project.
Moral comparisons between the actions Israel and Palestine take are always apples to oranges. You simply can’t equate violence against the oppressed to violence against the oppressor. A future without violence against anyone is what the oppressed are attempting to build by defending themselves against their oppressors, after all, but you can’t defend yourself without violence.
That’s right, but that’s also where the friendly fire took place, according to Asa Winstanley’s article that I linked.
Look, all in all it’s probably true that Hamas murdered several hundred civilians that day regardless. But I also don’t think there’s a viable way for a paramilitary group based in Gaza to do an uprising against Israel that doesn’t end with several hundred civilians dead, as I explained, because Israel is a settler-colony and the use of settlers as the tip of the spear of the Israeli effort to settle Palestine is a central part of the project.
Moral comparisons between the actions Israel and Palestine take are always apples to oranges. You simply can’t equate violence against the oppressed to violence against the oppressor. A future without violence against anyone is what the oppressed are attempting to build by defending themselves against their oppressors, after all, but you can’t defend yourself without violence.