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by philipallstar 17 hours ago
> 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.