zerfuffle

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[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Are you forgetting how the Americans funded the American Revolution against Britain?

When living under constant suppression, inequality, and a state of war (and a blockade IS a state of war), are you really looking for a peaceful solution?

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Palestinians have the right to revolution just like the Americans, French, and Chinese did. That revolution might be bloody, but the fight for sovereignty and equality is rarely peaceful.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

You'd imagine that support for revolutionaries seeking self-determination would be stronger in the West given the origins of the modern American and French state.

[–] zerfuffle@lemmy.ml 66 points 2 years ago

Israel's been imprisoning 2 million Gazans for decades. The spirit of revolution in the region is similar to that of the Americans over the British, the French over the Ancient Regime, the Haitians over the French, the Russians over the Tsardom, the Chinese over the Qing dynasty, the Indonesians over the Dutch, and countless other times where the principles of sovereignty and self-determination prevailed over a hostile governing power and gave power to the people. In places of great inequality, revolutionaries congregate. Israel only has themselves to blame for this mess.

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