@pratik @Denny > Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK Without justifying the atrocities of Oct 7, the structural reality of Israel makes violence inevitable. You have one group who has taken the land of another to create an ethno-state, leaving most of the original inhabitants with no rights. Until that basic structure changes, we can expect outbursts of violence from both sides -- for Palestinians as resistance, and perhaps also vengeance as you put it; for Israel, it is "security" (even though it is the structural violence of the situation that reproduces Israel's vulnerability)

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I was reading about why the U.S. vetoed the UN Security Council vote on the Gaza ceasefire. It apparently wanted to make the ceasefire conditional on Hamas releasing the hostages. Sounds fair to me. Do opponents not want Israeli hostages released? 🗳️ In the regular scheme of things, Hamas may have not expe... microblog.pratikmhatre.com

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> Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable ~ JFK

Without justifying the atrocities of Oct 7, the structural reality of Israel makes violence inevitable. You have one group who has taken the land of another to create an ethno-state, leaving most of the original inhabitants with no rights. Until that basic structure changes, we can expect outbursts of violence from both sides – for Palestinians as resistance, and perhaps also vengeance as you put it; for Israel, it is “security” (even though it is the structural violence of the situation that reproduces Israel’s vulnerability)

2024-02-27 18:23

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