Palestine, Lebanon: Put yourself in their shoes

If you are Hezbollah or Hamas and use rockets and bombs, it is terrorism.

But if you are the Israeli military and use United States-manufactured joint strike fighters, with Australian-made parts, on Palestinian schools, universities, hospitals, refugee camps and apartment blocks, it is not terrorism.

Israel might kill far more civilians with its far more powerful weapons but apparently, it is, and can never be called, terrorism or state terrorism.

See also

'Hands off Lebanon, Hands off Gaza', demand protesters across Australia

Australia must oppose Israel’s invasion of Lebanon

Protesters denounce Israeli terrorism in Gaza, Lebanon at 50th week of protest

If you wave an Israeli flag in the middle of a genocide by Israel, that is fine, regardless of the Islamophobic and racist hate speech by Israeli cabinet ministers in charge of sending out daily bombing raids deliberately targeting civilians.

But if you wave a Hezbollah flag, you are a terrorist supporter and should be........

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