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We debate if the high-profile Jerusalem synagogue massacre by PFLP militants may be a sign of the re-emergence of leftist armed organizations worldwide.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist-Leninist group, has claimed responsibility for the Synagogue attack in Jerusalem on 18 November 2014. The group was established as a response to Israel’s 1967 occupation of West Bank by Israel and is described as a terrorist organization by the US, Canada and the European Union. During the 1970s, PFLP was associated with many international Marxist militant groups such as the Japanese Red Army, and Germany’s Baader Meinhof organization. These left-wing armed groups were very active in the 1970s and 1980s but faded away with the decline of the PFLP and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues to be feed by confrontational discourses. Do you think this attack on the Jewish community can be considered part of a new trend in revolutionary movements, or is it another example of attack motivated by ethnic or religious hatred?
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In no way I gave an apologist argument. Solutions to problems can never be found if people from any side refuse to open their eyes on the origins of the problem. Killing people is wrong and is never justified to me. Any group or government which kill civilians should be stopped and judged for it. To write that extremists groups find some support from the population because that population is dealing with enormous problems is just a fact. I don't like it, I don't support it. These extremists attacks are outrageous. The retaliating attacks which kills citizens are also outrageous. One day someone will have to decide to be wiser and start to stop this cycle of violence.
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Cloeda, I would agree on the fact that anti-Israel attacks sometimes serve the purpose of diverting attention from certain regimes' own corruption and despotism, but Israel's occupation, uprooting and repression of Palestinians exist. I think peaceful means are more productive in resisting occupation, as the first intifada helped bring about Israeli peace groups which are now defunct, due to violence. Some argue that Palestinians need to change Israeli public opinion, and that does not happen through violence.
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The one thing pan arabists and extremists in Islam, far left and right have in common is that they all find Israel very useful when it comes to drawing attention away from their own deeply corrupted, racist, oppressive (sometimes genocidal) regimes. I think we've heard the simplistic (but false) axiom that "everyone has an equal share of the blame" and the apologist argument ("the cause of terrorism is [....]")
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