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This comment show lack of understanding of how Israeli response to peaceful protests.
It is wild to me when you expect anything from someone who is willing to shoot and kill children on live tv. By the way I am not talking about Gaza after October 7.
You can check out all the other peaceful protests where soldiers were shooting their knees, or respond with violence.
"You shouldnt scream when you get raped, instead call the police after and hopefully they will arrest him if they found enough evidence" OP probably....
If OnLy ThEy UsEd PeAcEfUl PrOteSt..
That is the event that radicalised me
You misunderstand unarmed resistance. You want to shout when raped, as loud as you can.
The key thing is you can never ever take the offensive and attack israeli civilians.
It is brutally unfair, but you can never cede the moral high ground, not even for a moment.
I mean, I do agree with the fact that civillians should never be attacked, but your "never use violence" part doesn't hold up. The police and military are valid target to attack.
I mean:
These are all "violence", but that's how they won.
Military targets are valid. Not arguing against that.
Regarding the other conflicts. They had much closer power parity, so they could compete with the opposition.
No you are absolutely wrong. The right to resist is recognized human rights.
Even South Africa recognized the Palestinians rights for arms resistance.
Israel goes around kidnapping people with military force and because media call it arrest it is okay. When Hamas do the same, you think it is wrong.
The Palestinians have giving away their weapons before and it didn't get them anywhere.
your comments are objectively wrong.
The South African government supporting armed resistance has very little to do with a moral position. It has more to do with them seeking support from Iran and Russia for their corruption.
I know it's not fair. It is brutal and inhumane.
Israel is committing a genocide Gaza to a degree we have not seen since the genocide in Dafhur.
My point is one of practicality. What does a violent attack on civilians achieve for the palestinian cause?
Say a man is in the woods with his family and they come across a wolf. The man attacks the wolf unprovoked and the wolf fights back, but the man is too strong. His only hope is that the family would tell the man to stop, or that a park ranger would notice it and intervene.
Would the wolf attacking the mans family achieve anything in its favour? Or would that erode his support with the family and the park ranger?
Ah, so it's all fine that Hamas primarily targets civilians then. I guess those women and children on October 7 had it coming - it was their fault for being born Israeli!
Oh, wait, there was a bunch of international tourists among the victims? Well, fuck them too for coming to Israel!
When did that happen?
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/07/world/plo-gives-up-arms-to-the-lebanese-army.html
OK, fair enough. I assumed you meant "Hamas" when you wrote that, for some reason, which was dumb.
So, yeah, the Palestinians, or PLO, did that, true. And then Hamas took over and fucked up the situation.
Whatever "side" you're on, I think we can both agree that fundamentalist psychopaths - on both sides - are the guilty party.
Irony, the ultimate weapon of the argumentless
Yeah you're know what's better than shouting. Attacking the rapist
This, right here. Lethal or disabling first strikes work as the best defense when the defender is smaller and weaker.
There are no "Israeli" civilians, it's a genocidal settler state on occupied territories that belong to Palestinians. If a military comes to your home, vacates you forcefully and murders your family, you naturally have a right to violence against whoever is occupying your house.
when they attack soldiers Israeli cries about terrorists killing their young babies.
look at all those "civilians" with military titles that were killed (and bombed by Israel) in Oct7th.
No, you want to kill or disabled your rapist and escape if you're being raped. A person who rapes is saying that they feel entitled to do anything with your body that they want to - including murder, more rape, imprisonment, forced pregnancy. Legally you are allowed to defend yourself. Rip out their throats with your hands. Kick out their kneecaps. Do the world a favor and yourself a favor. Self defense isn't violence.
Channel these women:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francine_Hughes
https://www.wweek.com/news/2016/08/17/a-hit-man-came-to-kill-susan-kuhnhausen-she-survived-he-didnt/