Jeremy Hammond on the Israel-Palestine conflict

I think it's important that we recognize Palestinians' legitimate grievances historically and right up to the present.  And only by looking at their legitimate grievances and acknowledging them can we possibly get our analysis correct.  I think it's unfortunate that so many people criticize and condemn, rightfully so, the crimes of one side or the other.  They unfortunately tend to then defend the crimes of the side that they favor.  We should be critical and condemn the crimes committed by both sides, but the case is we are dealing with a situation where you have an occupier and an occupied people.  And the crimes committed by Israel against Palestinians have occurred on incomparably greater scale, starting with the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by which the Jewish state of Israel came into existence.

~ Jeremy R. Hammond, "Debate: Israel and Palestine," The Tom Woods Show, 56:50 mark, October 25, 2023