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And how is taking hostages, many of whom are foreign nationals with no dog in the race, going to support Palestinian freedom? Hamas could attack military personnels instead. I've gotten mental gymnastic response that civilians were still killed by independence fighters in history. But it's not like there were no other previous independence movements, which could be emulated, that strictly told to target only military personnel and consciously avoid civilian deaths. That mental gymnastic insisting there is no other choice, even though there is, is tantamount to approving terrorism.

It's important to separate Hamas as an organisation and Palestinians as people. This isn't rocket science. This isn't a sports competition where you either support one team or the other. Not on you specifically, but it's clear that many people's lizard brain activates and fall on simplistic heuristics, and look the other way of the atrocities of the team they pick. Israel's genocide is bad, and so is Hamas' attack on October 7. First thing I thought when I heard of the attack was "I understand why it happened, but it's going to add more ammunition to ultra-Zionism".