lol. That refrain has gotten pretty tired and even the mainstream is waking up to how preposterous it is.

Suffering horrific atrocities in your culture's past is not some license to commit your own new atrocities. Seriously, try applying your own rationalizations to the Palestinian perspective and see how that makes you feel - can October 7th be justified because "[Israelis] have been attacking [Palestinian] civilians forever" ? The answer is a resounding NO.

As I said, it's cycle of violence.