That is the unfortunate reality of decolonization and national liberation struggles. The liberation of Algeria from French colonialism was extremely bloody, the fight against apartheid South Africa in Angola, liberation wars across Africa and Latin America, and of course we know about the bloody toll of conflicts like the war in Vietnam…

But the occupation, apartheid and slow genocide that has been happening in Palestine for decades is no less gruesome and grotesque, and the Palestinian people have decided that if they are to die they will at least do so fighting against their oppressor.