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@ArneBab
do you think Gazans have the ability to leave Gaza? Do you think that they have the ability to buy medicine on the international market, or to start businesses and banks? Do you think people who are forced to subsist in the most densely populated ghetto on the planet, which is used as a giant experimental site for Israeli weapons, plummeted with white phosphorous and other chemical weapons every two years have no right to fight for their liberation?

Do you think that the MK's program of bombing of Wimpy's Burger Joints across South Africa and brought the apartheid government to a heel was just inexcusable? If so, do you hate Nelson Mandela? If not, how do you reconcile the two? He maintained that the bombings were essential to the ending of apartheid until the day he died. You can either pick colonized or colonizer, war and colonialism is brutal, and the colonizer has NEVER in history been less brutal in their crimes. Israel is no exception, making jews an exception is the WORST form of antisemitism. As Agamben notes, the exceptionalization of Jews, the making of jews as an exception to the law was precisely what enabled the Holocaust. And Palestinians exist in a similar state of juridical exception. There is no democracy in Israel, the majority of the population under the state's sovereignty has no recourse to law or a vote.

Do you think it was so wrong for us to rise up and kill 150 germans in the Warsaw Ghetto? Even if they were all "civilians", it would still be just. I hope we can agree on that. Its dangerous to think that Jews and Ukrainians should be given a certain privileges to resist, but Palestinians should have no such rights. Liberation is ugly, its not a dinner party, and Palestinians did not choose to be colonized.

Israelis, on the other hand, elect their leaders and largely approve of how Palestinians are treated like animals, made to wait in cages to visit their grandmas in the neighborhood a kilometer away, routinely sexually assaulted while passing through checkpoints, and have experimental chemical weapons deployed against them *EVERY SINGLE FRIDAY*, with drones buzzing over their heads monitoring their movement at every moment of the day.

@Morgunin