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Pro-Israel Protesters in NYC Demand Gaza Flattened: 'Kill All Palestinians'
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I'm Irish, and I can tell you that my people fought a violent and bloody revolution against the strongest empire in the world, and they did so without going on a rampage of indiscriminately killing innocent civilians, women, children and family pets.
You can support rights and sovereignty for Palestine without justifying the evil terrorists actions of Hamas over the weekend. If anything Hamas has now done more damage to the Palestinian cause than anything in history.
You... Actually think no women or child were hurt by Irish resistance?
Did I say that? Or do you simply not understand the definition of the words "indiscriminately" and "rampage"?
Yes, I understand that you're dehumanizing Hamas.
Brits described the Irish the exact same way. Like animals.
I'm dehumanizing how? By plainly and literally describing what over the weekend happened in an objective fashion?
You clearly don't have a leg to stand on here. Time to move on, go talk into a shoebox or something.
It wasn't random and it wasn't without careful judgement and it wasn't uncontrolled. They aren't rampaging beasts. This was calculated.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bombings_during_the_Troubles
Did you read the page you listed? Do you understand the history you're citing? Do you understand how these IRA bombings were completely different than the rampage Hamas did over the weekend?
The answer to all of those questions is a resounding "no".
In your first shitty example, the British loyalist UVF from Northern Ireland bombed an Irish radio station. Nobody was injured.
In your next bad example, the IRA bombed the northern Irish "police", who were literally an active part in the oppression campaign and should not be considered innocent civilians.
I mean, should I go on?
The IRA unfortunately did kill innocent people and even children at points during the troubles, but they never did so intentionally or indiscriminately going on a rampage like we just saw Hamas do. As bad as the war and the troubles were the IRA never did anything even remotely analogous to what Hamas just did. What's more, the British occupation killed far more Irish than the Irish ever killed Brits, fyi.
You should learn about history before you try to cite it, especially as a justification for today's atrocities.