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Also, by your comment, you’re supporting the arrest warrants for Sinwar and other Hamas leaders, right? Does that mean you do not support the Palestinian actions on Oct 7?
My opinion is in line with history as this is what happens when you occupy and oppress people... They revolt. What Hamas did that day is atrocious and it's the result of and the response to almost 100 years of brutal occupation and settler colonial actions (starting with the British). For example, no one questions why black slaves revolted in the US (Nate Turner's in the 1800's) or why Jews revolted against the Germans in the Warsaw ghetto or why the ANC resisted the aparthide South Africa regime...and these were all bloody events.
Now keep in mind, an interpretation is not a justification, but I also never criticize the table manners of a starving person (which are the Palestinians in this case).
Everybody seems to want to ignore the elephant in the room... which is 75+ years of documented occupation, ethnic cleansing, land theft, forced evictions, tens of massacres, aparthide, rapes (admitted by the IDF and their predissors), illegal blockades...all backed by Western powers (and some authoritarian Arab regimes in some cases).
What would anyone here do if someone shows up at your door, claims a 3,000 year old biblical reference, takes over your home and kicks you out or relegates you to live in a shed with constant harassment? Would you turn the other cheek?
Many posters here keep repeating the false claim that it's all because Palestinians and/or Hamas hates Jews, but the fact that many don't like to admit is that the Palestinians are simply paying the price of Europe’s guilty Christian conscience for prosecuting the Jews for millenia, not centuries (I mean it wasn't until the 1960's when the Vatican finally issued their declaration repudiating the idea of multigenerational Jewish guilt for the crucifixion of Jesus). In comparison, the "Golden Age" for Jews was when they lived under Islamic rule in Muslim Spain (9 & 10th century) and when Jews of Europe were suffering in the holocaust, Arab Jews of Iraq/Morocco were ministers in governments!
Another proof of Britain's complicity and hypocrisy is that a few years before the 1917 Balfour Declaration was issued (which promised jewish Zionists a national home in Palestine), the same Lord Balfour passed the "Aliens Act" aimed at restricting immigration into Britain from Jews fleeing the Russian Empire! So basically Britain was closing its doors to Jewish refugees while promising them a state on another people's land!
In all honesty, I really sympathize with European Jews who were suffering under Christian European antisemitism and if I was one of them I would've probably sought refuge in Palestine or some other country. And as a Palestinian (and Canadian) I have no issue with Jews or any other group seeking refuge in Palestine.. The issue is when it's on the basis of creating a new ethnostate in that land at the expense of the local population (ethnically cleansing the Palestinians).
Back to October 7 (which everybody treats as the start of this 100+ year colonization
), as a practicing Muslim, my bar is much higher than International Law or any law. In my opinion, the rules of war and the rights of enemies at war in Islam are much more restrictive and prioritizes the sanctity of life, protection of property, prohibiting of mutilation, protection of non-combatants especially women, children, the elderly.. Etc.
Of course you'll find extremists like ISIS who will twist the exegesis and interpretations of certain verses/Hadiths to suit their objectives (interestingly the Islamophobes also use the same interpretations!).
So yes, I reject any of the above actions regardless of the perpetrator. So I condemn the taking of hostages (almost 5,000 Palestinian hostages in Israel prior to October 7 and 2.2 Million hostages in Gaza for 16 years which Israel controlled their movement in and out of the strip.. Etc), I condemn the illegal Israeli occupation since 1967, the ethnic cleansing of 1948 and before that.
Also, I'm surprised that no one on this forum (not just this thread) has shared any interviews or works by Professor John Mearsheimer. I believe his analysis of what's happening in Palestine is spot on (he also has very great insights in Ukraine and Nato).
I highly recommend watching this presentation/interview he gave last week in Australia: