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Five jailed for taking direct action against Israel’s war crimes in Gaza
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I don't agree with their methods or their objectives, so I don't see anything to praise here as 'brave'.
you don't agree with their objective of protesting sale of drones to the IDF?
No. I want the IDF to be given the weapons to finish off Hamas. The Palestinians have no future while Hamas rules in Gaza, and the IDF are the only military force in the world with both the capacity and motivation to destroy Hamas - it certainly won't come from Palestinians themselves. Israel can't plausibly be expected to allow Gaza or the West Bank to become a state if that means Hamas coming to power.
I see... so this isn't really about the law, it's about the values that you think those laws uphold.
What Israel is doing is in violation of several international laws. Couldn't one say that protests like these are what "tends to happen when you knowingly break the law"? Then it's just a matter of which value you hold higher: the laws that these protesters faced, or the not-forcibly-ousting-a-population laws.