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What do you think this is? Star Wars? What did you think anti-colonialist warfare is really like in real life? It's messy - did you really think that the French Resistance during WW2 only killed Nazis? The Allies themselves slaughtered hundreds of thousands of civilians, yet I don't see too many people "both-siding" that conflict.
And btw... Palestinians were minding their own business until Israel (and it's western enablers) clocked in.
You want to go and lecture people suffering colonial genocide how to resist said colonial genocide in a way that doesn't discomfort you?
Be my guest... hell, if you take a shipment of 7.62x39 with you, they might even have a reason to listen to you.
A bit late for that, don't you think? Just like it's a bit late to "stand in opposition" when this particular colonial genocide began all the way back in 1949.
Wanna know one thing that it's never too late for? Questioning why you have been drenched in narratives surrounding Hamas's "crimes" (real, perceived and/or invented) while you have zero context regarding the long, long list of atrocities committed by Israel since 1949 nor the even larger atrocities committed by Israel's western backers - you know... the same backers that are drenching you in these narratives?
It's never too late to figure out who it is that is manipulating you - and why.
I'm not avoiding the question - you are avoiding the entire reality of the situation. The colonized does not require your approval or oversight to wage war against colonizers.
What complexities? Why are people all of a sudden pretending that western colonialism - and the resistance against it - is suddenly a "new" thing?
Again... there is no mystery here - Israel has always been a western-backed colonialist project. No ifs, ands or buts. Where is the mystery?
If we cared about "civilians," wouldn't we be concerned about colonialism in the first place? No? Then I guess we're only concerned when said "civilians" belonging to the colonizer side start dying, eh?