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October 7th didn’t happen in a vacuum. Palestinians have been under occupation, blockade, and apartheid for decades, denied the right to self-determination. Calling their dispossession “historical” or “perceived” is like telling Indigenous people in the Americas or Black South Africans under apartheid that their suffering was imaginary. International law is clear: an occupied people has the right to resist. You can condemn attacks on civilians while still recognizing that ongoing ethnic cleansing and siege are what drive this cycle.
And saying Palestinians need to “become civilized” is pure colonial racism, Palestinians are not less human or less civilized. They are a people fighting for survival and freedom under one of the most brutal military occupations in modern history. The path to peace isn’t Palestinians submitting, it’s Israel ending occupation and apartheid.