Photo credit: “Close up of Palestinian Flags” by Muaaz
There is no defending Hamas sending in fighters to open fire on a crowd of civilians who were reveling at a festival in Israel, nor the massacre at Kfar Aza. There is also no defending an Israel that has made the Gaza Strip an open-air prison and cannot be honestly described as anything other than a modern Apartheid state. Two wrongs no more make a right than one brutal wrong gives Israel the right to reign terror in the Gaza Strip. Keep in mind that Israel is always the aggressor, the settler colony that has pushed the Palestinians to the brink.
The violence that sparked the latest bombing of Gaza was an entirely predictable result of Israel’s regime. As Malcolm X warned in 1965 if there was no easing up of the boot on Afrikan Americans’ necks “you’ll see terrorism that will terrify you, and if you don’t think you’ll see it, you’re trying to blind yourself to the historic development of everything that’s taking place on this earth today.” He argued that once people understand there is no solution to the problem within the framework of the nation they would express their rage in violence. Civil rights legislation and an emerging Black middle class released just enough pressure to temporarily defuse the racial powder keg in the States. But Israel has amped up the oppression since Hamas took control of the Gaza strip in 2007.
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