Is that a serious question? I’d rather ask you to name a major independence movement that didn’t. War is a bloody affair.
The Irish war of independence did not purposefully kill civilians. They only targeted British military personnel, and the British retaliate by killing Irish civilians, which proved to be to Ireland’s PR advantage for international support for independence (you might mention the IRA in the 1960s to 90s, but that’s a different story right after the establishment of the independent southern part of Ireland, in which the IRA activities had been condemned by the Irish government all throughout). And you mentioned Ghandi’s peace movement for Indian independence, and yet somehow have a doublethink that it wasn’t a major enough.
How would you tell the Palestinians to struggle for their freedom from occupation and violence?
Are you asking Palestinians to just lay down and die?
How about target military personnel only, and not kidnapping civilian hostages, especially foreign nationals with no dog in the race? It’s not that hard to grasp. How is this going to help Palestinian cause? If the Irish freedom fighters killed civilians, that certainly would not have helped their cause for independence.
The Irish war of independence did not purposefully kill civilians. They only targeted British military personnel, and the British retaliate by killing Irish civilians, which proved to be to Ireland’s PR advantage for international support for independence (you might mention the IRA in the 1960s to 90s, but that’s a different story right after the establishment of the independent southern part of Ireland, in which the IRA activities had been condemned by the Irish government all throughout). And you mentioned Ghandi’s peace movement for Indian independence, and yet somehow have a doublethink that it wasn’t a major enough.
How about target military personnel only, and not kidnapping civilian hostages, especially foreign nationals with no dog in the race? It’s not that hard to grasp. How is this going to help Palestinian cause? If the Irish freedom fighters killed civilians, that certainly would not have helped their cause for independence.