Conceptually yes, but they then decided to do a genocide. And the actions of their government helped to incite the attack from Hamas in the first place. Hamas massacred civilians in an awful act, but that is fairly common in historical examples of colonized groups rebelling. (See: Geronimo and the Apache, the Indian Massacre of 1622, or the rebellion of the Herero and Nama). That does not make these actions okay, but they didn’t come out of nowhere.

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Loaded question, yes they had the right to militarily respond. No killing 28,000 women and children is not in anyway a proportionate or justified response.

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