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https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/tgif-thinking-about-israel-and-palestine/

by Sheldon Richman

When a sealed pot of boiling water explodes, no one should be surprised. With no excusing of Hamas’s indiscriminate violence intended, I think that’s how we ought to view recent events in Israel/Palestine. We can condemn what the fighters have done and point out the century or more of provocation. There is a category that could be labeled inexcusable-and-provoked.

Another thing to watch for is the ex-post justification; to wit: the defense of an earlier set of actions in terms of the later consequence of those same actions.

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