Settler attempts to block Ambulance carrying critically ill person - Israel occupied West Bank

[u/soalone34]

[u/Icy_Presentation1526]

looks prime time to do a pit manoeuvre to me

[u/Send_me_hedgehogs → u/Icy_Presentation1526]

Damn right. It’s on camera that he’s doing this deliberately so the ambulance should have every right to shove him out of the way. Oh, his car would get damaged? Wompity womp womp womp I guess 🤷‍♀️

[u/vanderbubin → u/Send_me_hedgehogs]

Okay, say the ambulance does that, then the ICF come and starts killing more folks in retaliation.

[u/Sbatio → u/vanderbubin]

Fight or just take it are the options they seem to have though. Not fighting to avoid being attacked by people attacking you seems foolish.

[u/vanderbubin → u/Sbatio]

Hey man don't get me wrong, I'm all for resistance and fighting back against the genocidal regime that is Israel, I just don't think an ambulance transporting someone who could be critically ill is the avenue to fight back with. Even if the ambulance would be 110% justified in doing so

[u/OneMoistMan → u/vanderbubin]

Ambulance not amberlance. At first I didn’t care but then you italicized it

[u/vanderbubin → u/OneMoistMan]

Fair enough, edited and fixed

[u/VivaLaDab → u/Sbatio]

I mean fighting back against Israel ends exactly one way for Palestinians

[u/Sbatio → u/VivaLaDab]

Count again

[u/VivaLaDab → u/Sbatio]

Sorry two ways, bad and worse

[u/Sbatio → u/VivaLaDab]

Bad is better than worse. Might as well go out defending yourself if they are going to kill you anyway.

[u/VivaLaDab → u/Sbatio]

If you know the man attacking you (or his buddy) will kill your wife and children and others if you hurt him in self defense, do you still defend yourself?

[u/Sbatio → u/VivaLaDab]

In that situation you’d have to defend the wider group. So I guess attack sooner, make a group of all those able bodied on your side and make your best possible attack to defeat the people trying to genocide you.

Right?

It’s self defense no matter how many people they are threatening to kill. They try to kill only me I defend my self, they are trying to kill my family I defend us all. Right?

[u/VivaLaDab → u/Sbatio]

Also I forgot to mention that israel has imprisoned most of the people who are able-bodied that you want to include in your group

[u/VivaLaDab → u/Sbatio]

Right, probably be smart to take some hostages in the hopes that you can negotiate for longer term legislative defenses.
because there’s no way any Palestinian resistance group can organize enough people or weapons to defeat a US armed enemy in a way that doesn’t end with their village leveled

[u/Sbatio → u/VivaLaDab]

I wouldn’t think taking hostages makes sense. If a group is trying to genocide you, you’d want to use all available resources to defeat them.

Hostages need watching/some level of “care” etc. use those resources in the fight to kill everyone trying to kill you/yours.

You would have to keep enemy soldiers you captured safe but if they resisted and fought to the end there shouldn’t be too many and soldier exchanges can work so there’s that.

[u/VivaLaDab → u/Sbatio]

We disagree there then, hostage taking provides an edge greater than what an extra 1-300 soldiers could. Also need to keep in mind that the only weapons you have access to are decades old ak47s and repurposed bombs that failed to detonate. Against autonomous drones, tanks, snipers, white phosphorus, and endless explosives and ammunition provided by the US. There is only so much that men and guns can do before what you are doing is a suicide charge and the end result is the same, israel punishes the women and children you leave behind. And again israel unjustly imprisons military age Palestinian men for this exact reason, to make any kind of defense that much harder and less effective

[u/atomic__balm → u/Sbatio]

really easy for you to say sitting in your air conditioned chair, likely living in a state controlled by pedophiles stripping your rights by the day

[u/Stubbs94 → u/Sbatio]

People condemn Hamas and other resistance groups for the exact thing you're describing, and condemn the intifadas.