Laying siege to a civilian population isn’t the same thing as targeting a terrorist organisation
The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at a joint press conference in Tel Aviv with the US secretary of state Antony Blinken on 12 October.The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at a joint press conference in Tel Aviv with the US secretary of state Antony Blinken on 12 October.”.
Yes, there is a historical context to Palestinian violence, and Palestinians continue to suffer from Israeli repression. There is, though, no context in which the mass murder of more than 260 revellers at a music rave, or a massacre in a kibbutz, comes close to being justified, let alone provides an occasion for rejoicing.attacks be understood as the inevitable product of a history of oppression, still less as an aspect of Palestinian resistance.
Condemning Hamas, its policies and actions, is not, though, the same as supporting Israeli policies. Israel has cut off power, water, food and medical supplies to Gaza, begun mass, indiscriminate bombings, and a probable ground invasion. If the stories of Hamas killings are reminiscent of the savagery of Islamic State, the images of the bombing of Gaza recall the destruction of Aleppo in Syria or Bakhmut in Ukraine.
“Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu reportedlyfirst of the Muslim Brotherhood in Gaza, and subsequently Hamas, created by the Brotherhood during the 1987 intifada. The aim was to”. Those who want to maintain the land of Israel solely for Jews and those who want to eliminate Jews from that land are as much in a mutual embrace as in a death struggle.
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