I DONT THINK ISRAEL HAS A VALID REASON FOR OPPRESSING THE PALESTINIANS AND ME A LOVER OF ISRAEL.... HERE AN EXCELLENT BIT FROM A PIECE IN KINGS JOURNAL....kingsreview.co.uk/magazine/theblog/2014/10/27/palestine-and-the-slow-burn-of-anti-colonial-resistance/ Some among Israel’s ruling class would like to claim that history—either the memory of the Holocaust, or the wars waged in the past by surrounding Arab countries against Israel—vindicates this neocolonial occupation. Whatever oppression or injustices a people have endured, it does not morally justify that people in oppressing another. The point is all the clearer in a case like that of the Palestinians, in which the population in question has nothing to do with the oppression or injustices once suffered by their current oppressors. Others would like to justify the bullying and oppression of millions of Palestinian people with reference to the anti-Semitic slogans attributed to certain factions or organisations like Hamas. This logic of collective punishment is morally repugnant, a thin veil for an attitude of genuine contempt for the lives of Palestinians. Those who make that argument would be rightly horrified by any suggestion that the outrageous actions and racist discourses of certain extremist Jewish settlers justify the murders of Israeli citizens.
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