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There are lots of grievances Palestinians could cite that deserve attention

Cite to whom? Who's going to come to their aid? They've been crying out for the support of the international community (  ) for decades, and all the West has done is give Israel more weapons and told Palestinians to cry harder. Just say you only love dead Palestinians.

There is NO POSITIVE outcome for them here (except to personally bolster their chances to stay in power).

What the fuck is he on about? What power? In what way does living in an open air prison constitute having power? How does getting bombed every so often confer power? How does he see NO POSITIVE outcome to pushing back against this cruel apartheid state?

There are a lot of grievances Palestinians could cite that deserve attention

Gee Dan, what an intelligent thought. If only they had thought to tell people that they've been under attack for the last 70 years. What a world we could live in if only we'd known Israel wasn't being very nice to them.

Don't forget this is the same guy who parroted the hard times make strong men good times make weak men fascist shite. And used it to describe the fall of Rome.... complete ahistorical twatface

Again just treating Palestinians like they ought to be happy to be treated like cattle, combined with the illusion that if they never resisted, there is a positive outcome at the end of the tunnel for them.

If there is no positive outcome for them from this, then there is no positive outcome for them no matter what, and since this guy is a fucking pop historian asshole he 100% has at some point in time valorized the idea of "we can at least choose when and how we will die, and show our oppressors that we do not fear them." Its just crypto-zionist bullshit.

This was their Little Big Horn you fucking door knob. You think you're saying anything they don't know? The oppressors will never let them mount something like this again so the decided to take some of the assholes with them. Why is this so hard to understand?

This guy needs 4 hours to summarize half a pop history book, of course he cant tweet.

Why didn't Palestinians just vote?

I've never heard of this guy before, but he glamorized Japanese kamikaze pilots?

Sounds like a fascist to me.

This plays into the hands of hardliners on both sides

Yeah, specifically into the hands of people like him, so he can ignore oppression of Palestinians on the basis that they're too uppity to be listened to.

Glad I haven't listened to this guy since I was a teenager. Books are a much better way to consume history.


close the ears of many who might be willing to listen/help

So according to this guy, if you are being violently attacked and brutalized, the most important thing you can do is make sure your struggle to defend yourself is palatable for Western audiences, or else they may not "listen" or give you "deserved attention" (for all the good that will do)

I don't know, I think I would rather take several hundred captured occupiers and their equipment instead. Seems like that will be more useful for liberation than relying on the fickle sympathy of the common occidental chud.

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

I'm so tired of Liberals pretending they care about Palestinians and doing concern troll armchair quarterbacking on what the Palestinians "should do" instead. Whatever your dumbass passive idea is, it's already been tried and it failed.

He's right.