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        8 months ago

        If your government starts a war you have to pay the price.

        Hey look at that, it’s Bin Laden’s moral justification for 9/11

        Though it doesn’t really apply here, because for you to use the whole “Palestine started it so Israel is just defending themselves by genocideing the civilian population” you have to acknowledge that Palestine is a sovereign country. And if that’s the case, then what Israel has been doing to it for decades - blockading, cutting of food and water, violating it’s borders, killing it’s people, bombing it, forcing it’s people to carry ID cards, etc - meet the definition of acts of war many times over (as well as being war crimes) which means Palestine is completely justified in defending itself, including - by the standards you’ve set - by killing Israeli civilians.