• smooth_tea@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Does that force come from a people who’ve been deprived of everything, forced into a system of apartheid, robbed of their freedom and routinely bullied, tortured and killed for half a century?

    That seems to be an important factor to just leave out of the equation.

    “Pick up the gun…” - Bill Hicks

    • Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      No. Obviously? And it’s irrelevant. There’s no symmetry here.

      If Hamas puts down their guns there would be peace.

      If Israel puts down there guns there would be no Israel.