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Gaza and the West’s double standard towards violence

Timo Al-Farooq Source: Al Mayadeen English 2024-07-29 12:16 9 Shares

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Euro-Western discourse, designed to uphold global inequities and oppressive structures exclusively benefitting Western capitalist interests, routinely fails to understand the psychology behind anticolonial violence.

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The West has propagated this perverse inversion of reality from Day 1 of Hamas’s October 7 revolt against "Israel", routinely engaging in poorly executed victim-perpetrator reversal antics. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Zeinab El-Hajj)

The West has propagated this perverse inversion of reality from Day 1 of Hamas’s October 7 revolt against "Israel", routinely engaging in poorly executed victim-perpetrator reversal antics. (Al Mayadeen English; Illustrated by Zeinab El-Hajj)

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