[mcmcmc]

> It's like if people in Wales were constantly firing rockets at London because they wanted to destroy all English people, and England doing nothing about it for years until there was a huge slaughter, and then finally retaliating.

Or just like the IRA… asymmetric warfare/terrorism is a natural response to violent oppression

[Sabinus]

Discarded proportionalty calculations is in response to asymmetric warfare/terrorism which is in response to violent oppression is in response to ethnic conflict, which is in response to migration which is in response to persecution.

Everyone has factors influencing their decisions but everyone still has their own agency and responsibility.

[philipallstar]

> Or just like the IRA… asymmetric warfare/terrorism is a natural response to violent oppression

In neither case was oppression happening. The IRA wanted a separate Ireland, and would kill other Irish people and English people to get it.

You'd be far more oppressed (read: killed) if you were a Jew in Palestine, or a gay man in Palestine, or any number of other things in Palestine. Israel was the place where you could be those things. The controls were in place to stop the people coming in that would bring Palestinian "morality" into Israel.

[fsckboy]

>asymmetric warfare/terrorism is a natural response to violent oppression

it always sounds more high-minded to adopt universal/philosophical wording, but it's highly effective, your point is well made. October 7th was violent oppression, your explanation is sound.