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Palestinians can learn a lot from the ANC's struggle for freedom in South Africa. They were also violently oppressed, they also had their land and property taken. They also became puppets of foreign governments with the goal of destabilizing the region
What changed, was that they realized they could never win an armed conflict and targeting civilians did nothing but intensify the oppression and undermine international sympathy for their cause.
They switched to a campaign of unarmed resistance, worked internationally to break the regime's support base and partnered with whites who also wanted the oppression to stop.
Israel will never stop this conflict, so long as they can use fear against their own citizens to remain in power. Palestinians need normal Israelis on their side.
So long as the pictures show a child vs a tank, their movement is working. But when it shows armed palestinian men attacking Israeli civilians, they are losing.
Palestinians, like the ANC, need to keep violence out of their movement, especially the use of religion to justify that violence.
So BDS?
Nope! I mean they did these things, as are Palestinians, but the armed resistance campaign only stopped as part of good faith negotiations with the Apartheid government. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMkhonto_weSizwe. The armed resistance and peaceful resistance campaigns worked together and supplemented each other to eventually bring an end to Apartheid in South Africa, exactly as we're seeing in Palestine right now.
80% of Jewish Israelis don't feel anything when shown pictures of starving Palestinians, so "normal" Israelis are clearly in the minority here, which is why peace and kindness alone have not worked and will never work. If you want more numbers that will make you lose your faith in humanity, I recommend this. Note: The link doesn't contain the 80% thing, but I can provide a source for that if you want. Point being: The things you're calling for are happening, but for a variety of reasons they're not enough, so they need to be backed up with armed struggle.
Normal israelis used to be more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. But regular missile attacks and air raid sirens desensitised them in recent times.
Israelis nearly got rid of Netanyahu, but attacks like Oct 7 galvanised the public behind him.
I lived the resistance of the ANC in the late 80s. Umkhonto weSiswe was a lot less prominent by then since the change in strategy. The remnants of that movement nearly derailed the entire process.
What I am advocating for is that in all similar situations around the world, armed attacks on the civilians of the other side have NEVER resulted in success. Not when there is a power disparity like this. They need to be removed from the strategy.
Netanyahu is still unpopular and faces prosecution if the war ever stops. Israelis just support Genocide because it's gotten more and more religiously conservative over time and their religion states:
Deuteronomy 20: 16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you. 18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God.
This is why the only chance they have is if they both give up their religions. The oligarchs are just using it to justify the violence. They need to be strictly secular. No religion in government, courts or schools.