Hamas’s actions were what every Western Government demanded of POWs during WW2, fight back and escape. Resistance was regarded as a duty and heralded as heroic when it occurred. Hamas was an Act of resistance and difficult to condemn of people trapped in the world’s biggest concentration camp for 17 years. It’s even more understandable when conducted by a youth who had never experienced the hope of freedom.
Israel’s actions on the other hand in all 75 years have never been anything other than oppressive colonizers. Even before 2006 70% of Gazans were refugees living in what eventually became what a senior Israeli politician labeled a “concentration camp” A camp with 51% kids 70% unemployed and without a future that Israel stole with force. Any nation that currently supports the genocidal intent witnessed today has brought shame not only on themselves but their children. Those who simply stand by and abstain from demanding a cease-fire, like Australia, will also never be forgotten for their participation in this crime against humanity. Where were they when Israel killed 5000 children 7000 people and maimed 35,000 and never stopped? Where were they when Israel was seen killing their own people held hostage and claiming they were doing their best to save them?
More importantly, where were you when Israel sent in 15 trucks and not 15,000 a day to help save 2.3 million people from starvation clean water, and disease forcing them to go to promised safe areas and then bombing them. Then telling them to move again only to claim they were showing compassion. Where were you when Israel left babies and the sick and injured to die?
But there is an important distinction to be made between recognising that crimes were committed and colluding in an act of condemnation that has been openly politicised, and continues to be politicised, to justify harming Palestinian civilians.
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