Aren both the Israelis and Palestinians committing violence?
While both sides have been violent towards each other, there are key distinctions between the two sides that the mainstream media and pro-Israel voices tend to disregard: • First, Israel is the occupier and aggressor in this conflict, and it has inflicted tremendous pain and desperation upon the Palestinian people. There is no moral symmetry between the violence that the occupier (Israel) commits and the violence that the oppressed (the Palestinians) commit. Palestinian acts of violence must be judged in the context of Israel’s decades of aggression, dispossession, and oppression of the entire Palestinian people. There is no justification for the killing of innocent Palestinians or Israelis, however Palestinians are resisting a violent occupation by a superior military power. We must remember that the black African National Congress (ANC) also used violence in its struggle against the white government. This recognition does not excuse violence, but its use by some Palestinians cannot i
