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[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

But Hamas does very textbook terrorist things, seems to me like they are actually terrorists.

[–] Palerider@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So were the IRA...

And yet now here we are with Sinn Fein holding elected positions.

At some point there has to be dialogue otherwise you just keep killing one another.

As opposed to the ANC? Who literally had a terrorist wing run by Mandela?

[–] BluJay320@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago

As opposed to the IDF that’s been terrorizing Palestinians constantly?

It’s terrorists in both sides. Unfortunately civilians are the ones caught in the crossfire.

[–] Eikichi@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

As opposed to the resistants (including many Jews) during WW2 who were literally called terrorists by Nazis ?