From the first world war to the invasion of Iraq, left-wing soldiers have questioned our involvement in wars. Yet we rarely hear these dissenting veteran’s voices.

  • eureka@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    It was an act of resistance within decades of besiegement and massacres by settlers. The situation was not peaceful beforehand, we cannot isolate that event and pretend it was sudden and unexpected. It’s fine to be critical of how it fought, but it was certainly an act of desperate national self defense against colonial settlement.

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      9 months ago

      Yes we can isolate it.

      Israel isn’t going anywhere despite the Hamas “From the river to the sea…” delusion.

      Palestinians aren’t going anywhere either but now we have extreme right wingers in Israel adopting a similar catchphrase thanks to Oct 7.