#hamas is absolutely awful sure but are we to pretend like america's hands are any cleaner?

[anthropomorphicbeancake]

Atrocities happening to innocents that are a part of the oppressor state or group, is still the fault of the oppressor, not the oppressed for using the same tactics in their defense.

#palestine #current events #there was another post earlier talking about people living in imperialist settler countries (i.e. america) can't recognize the violence #done by a fellow imperialist settler against the native population because it calls up their own hypocrisy and #makes them afraid of the possibility of the same thing happening in their own country #so they bend over backwards to overlook and justify violence in anti-colonialist rebellion #and it really do be like that #israel has been killing palestinian civilians for 60 years and the world turned a blind eye #hamas is absolutely awful sure but are we to pretend like america's hands are any cleaner? #not trying to start anything #but damn #since i'm getting some replies to this i'll just add: violence exists in context #you can't look at the situation happening today without examining what transpired before #where did the violence begin #what factors contributed to this explosive reaction #how many people have died before today #et cetera #there's that one graph going around comparing the human costs from both sides #you know the one #the violence of the colonized stems from the violence of their subjugation #or something #resistance to occupation and colonization is always justified