--- "Michael J. Smith" <> wrote: ... categories like aggression versus resistance, and domination versus insurrection, perhaps apply more cogently to the Israel/Palestine conflict (and Israel/Lebanon too) than categories like exploitation and oppression?
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^^^^^^ CB: To be precise, a category like "oppression" _does_ seem to apply cogently. Israel is an oppressor nation vis-a-vis the Palestinian nation, for sure. Resistance and insurrection are the responses of an oppressed nation.