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As a Palestinian living in the US, I have lost friends, job opportunities – and my faith in humanity | Arwa Mahdawi (www.theguardian.com)
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History did not start on 7 October. But as the world stops to mourn it will for ever be a reminder of whose lives matter.

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[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

the attack on military targets can easily be justified as an act of war.

Yeah that's exactly what I was getting at. Not trying to defend the atrocities they committed (which are many), but at the start when they weren't as obviously committing genocide Israel was trying to paint itself as an unambiguous victim and one of their strategies was to claim all the dead as civilians and deny that the attack had any military goals, so I wanted to correct the 1200 civilians figure.