• Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    There’s a reason why nonviolent resistance worked in India but why nonviolent resistance in Palestine (first intifada) only lead to being shot or outright murdered, and you get to hear that reason resoundingly on Twitter (for example an Israeli asking ‘did they release the hostages’ on a picture of a screaming child whose

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    intestines

    are hanging out)

    • Adlach@lemmygrad.ml
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      2 months ago

      Is that reason that the Indian resistance also had a very notable violent component?

      I don’t like implying that Israelis are uniquely cruel. They’re just regular European cruel.