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@TruthSandwich @dung_eater @palestine @NoFlexZone @argumento @HistoPol @Lastresponder @Outpatientzero Matey, Hamas is bad. I'm not sure anyone in this thread praised them or denied that. They're fundamentalists who impose upon Palestinians. They have centralized and held onto power within their organization for like 20-30 years. It's not common for anarchists to support them, and I certainly don't.

Neither collective punishment or ethnic cleansing are reasonable answers, and they wouldn't be reasonable for any other country either. Those alone are war crimes, if you want to get international.

However, this war isn't about revenge for those people. Those people are a pretext. If the Israelis were really interested in ending this conflict and seeking a mutual peace, there are all kinds of oppressive things that they could just stop doing. Respect the Gazan border. Stop treating Palestinians as second-class (non-)people. Even now, they could just stop the conflict and retreat, saying 20K was enough. If they REALLY want to do more violence, they might force an election for a new government or something.

But Israel chose to carry out an ethnic cleansing campaign (again!) because they're a colonial state founded with the goal of taking the land. If you can't even acknowledge that, then you don't know enough about this political situation to comment on it, to be frank.