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I"ve been reading bit by bit a book about Jewish women resistance fighters in occupied Poland during the WWII holocaust and cannot emphasize enough that the people described pretty much in every single way just regular people just like us, and their thought processes (that we know of from journals and oral histories) are more or less just those of most rebel groups today, just in a desperately amplified context

"oh goddammit, the council sold us out again" "they're saying we should just go peacefully and maybe it won't be so bad that way" "fuck that, i know we only have three pistols, let's fight anyway. maybe at least history will remember some of us chose not to be complicit" "ok, how many people do we have left still in on the plan? seven of us? ok, i guess that'll have to do"

and then, reading this becomes even more of a trip when you realize that people in palestine and lebanon are acting out the same thing *right now* and in a few decades perhaps i'll be reading the same book about them