If you are ever asked this question, or any variation of it, by someone who supports Israel, do not dignify it with an answer.

It is nothing but an attempt to distract from the obvious fact that for the best part of a century the Palestinian people have been living under the boot of an oppressive apartheid regime that is guilty of crimes that far exceed anything Hamas could ever even dream of committing.

Do not give the zionist fucks an inch.

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    During many of the slave revolts, there are records of voices claiming “this isn’t an honest rebellion, they are the unwitting stooges of the French/Spanish who just want to attack Brits!”

    in the American War of Independence, the British offered freedom to slaves who fought against colonists. Many joined up with the “Ethiopian” regiment of the redcoats for that reason. So the lesson here is even if they are working for a foreign power… So fucking what!!! Don’t enslave them and maybe that wouldn’t be their only option! Where else are they gonna get guns and training?

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        I wouldn’t call it a Bri’ish W. It was opportunism. They foresaw the loss of their colonies and so decided to use a bunch of black men as human shields in a desperate attempt to keep those colonies. It was less driven by an ideological sympathy for abolitionism than it was driven by a desire to keep their colonial holdings. The British also opportunistically supported the confederacy during the civil war because they benefited tremendously from the American cotton market in their textile industry. Had the British held onto colonial America, it is very possible they would have betrayed the Ethiopian regiment at the end of the war and put them back in chains, or even more likely, just keep using them as cannon fodder until they all died.