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    If he murders the person who murdered his father he would be a murderer.

    If he murders random civilians who were unrelated to the incident, then yes. He is a terrorist.

    Terror is terror. There is no excuse for intentionally targeting civilians. It’s murder at best, and terrorism at worst.

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      1 year ago

      Your point would hold more weight if this was the only example of such an incident. His father wasn’t the first person he knew who was killed by an Israeli soldier…the same group that’s kept him behind barbed wire fences his whole life.

      I’m not excusing it but you’re way oversimplifying it. How could you blame a kid for demonizing all Israelis with all that he’s seen? It’s not like he’s been allowed to mingle with the good citizens of Israel even if they’re the majority

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        It’s not oversimplified. It’s a statement of principles.

        The reality of our world is that murderers walk free all the time. But saying “x caused y and we should fix the root cause of this” is wildly different than saying “can you blame him?” Because the answer to that is yes! You can blame him for choosing violence and choosing terror.

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          1 year ago

          What did this hypothetical boy choose violence over? What should he have done instead?

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            1 year ago

            If you truly believe that violence is the only answer the Palestinians have, then you’ve given up any hope for peace.

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              Feel free to answer my question on what other choice the boy has but to fight.

              Because the only other option I see in this boy is to die. Either self-inflicted, at the hands or those who liked your father, or slowly by starvation and disease.

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                7 months ago

                I’ll answer your question and hopefully you’ll answer mine.

                The hypothetical boy could choose life. He could work in agriculture, or study, or literally just live his life. Palestinians are not starving on a daily basis, and certainly not in the west bank. He can go on with his life, get married, have kids, and literally choose to move on and not take violent revenge.

                Now my question for you: do you support Hamas?

                I ask because It sounds like you drank the Hamas koolaid. Their charter literally state that every Palestinian must engage in violent resistance, and have no alternative.