The Meaning of October 7
The Hamas incursion was less Israel’s 9/11 and more a Palestinian Tet Offensive, says John Wight. No ugly oppression has ever given rise to a pretty resistance.
“When I search for Man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.”
But thinking about this particular question on a deeper level, this would impose the norms of the uncolonized onto the colonized. In truth, the real question we should be asking ourselves one year on is this: What choice did they have? When the choice is between living on your knees or dying on your feet, is there really any choice involved at all?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Yes, the attack itself has to separated from any war crimes that may have occured during it. Occuped people have the legal right to attack their occupier. Any violations of the rules of war during such an attack is a separate issue from the legal right to fight occupation.
Krish55
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