It was an act of resistance to decades of besiegement and massacres by settlers. The situation was not peaceful beforehand, we cannot isolate that event and pretend that battle was sudden and unexpected. It’s fine to be critical of how it fought, but it was certainly an act of desperate national self defense against colonial settlement.
sqgl@beehaw.org 4 days ago
Yes we can isolate it.
Israel isn’t going anywhere despite the Hamas “From the river to the sea…” delusion.
Palestinians aren’t going anywhere either but now we have extreme right wingers in Israel adopting a similar catchphrase.