You can’t understand this conflict if you at all if you adopt any kind of parity between the two sides. Because it’s very simple: there’s an occupier and an occupied population. (Aaron Maté)
Ausschnitt aus „Nobody is safe – The Grayzone live“
Aaron Maté:
If the terrorism that Israel experiences comes from the fact that it’s been occupying millions of people for more than 50 years, does Israel have the right to defend itself against that terrorism or does it have the obligation to end the occupation which is a form of terrorism in itself?
And in fact you can’t even compare the terrorism that Hamas was responsible for to the terrorism that Israel was responsible for, and again it’s not morally equivalent because hamas’s terrorism is a response to a criminal occupation and a siege whereas Israel is the inciting party by occupying and committing state terror not just in one day as we saw Hamas but over 50 years.
Unless you can have that unless you can recognize that there’s no parity between an occupied people and an occupier you shouldn’t be able to speak on this conflict it’s better just to say nothing.[..] You can’t understand this conflict if you at all if you adopt any kind of parity between the two sides. Because it’s very simple: there’s an occupier and an occupied population.
Max Blumenthal:
It’s as though history started on October 7th, 2023, it’s as though 750,000 Palestinians were not ethnically cleansed between 1947 and 1948 with over 200 villages already destroyed by the time Israel declared its „independence“ in May 1948.