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This is a picture omg the aftermath of a bombing in Nigeria’s city market. This bomb concealed under a butcher’s table killed 50 people, devastating the city of Maiduguri.

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This picture shows the destruction of Hurricane Irma in the Caribbean. Houses are destroyed and many trees have fallen.

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Below is a picture of the aftermath of refugee camp in Syria after warplanes struck the camp. This tragic event occurred in May 2016. Like the attack on Dresden, this attack killed over 28 civilians, most being woman and children.

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This is a picture of refugees during the Second Congo War which was held from 1998 to 2003. This war started due to the ethnic strife between Hutu and Tutsi. More than 300,000 people (mostly civilians) were killed in the fighting or died of disease or malnutrition as a result of the conflict.

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This picture is from Ground Zero shortly after the Twin Towers were attacked on September 11, 2001. As the first foreign attack on US ground (besides Pearl Harbor), the 9/11 attacks left the United States in tremendous sorrow and pain. The US has been incredibly affected by these attacks and has changed greatly from them. The US has never seen such terror and pain on its own ground like they witnessed on 9/11.

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This image depicts the Twin Towers after the attack of 9/11. This was the largest terrorist attacks in America and one of the first of its kind. Thousands of innocent people were killed and countless lives were horribly affected. Our country has never been the same since.

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This photo depicts the aftermath of a terrorist attack in Baghdad, Iraq in July of 2016, in which ISIS bombed a shopping district during Ramadan. This attack killed 292 people and left the area in ruins. The picture shows people walking through the destroyed area.

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This is a picture of a terrorist attack done by ISIS on May 17 of 2017. This attack destroyed this building and all neighboring buildings. this happened in the capital city of Kabul of Afghanistan. Over 80 were killed and 300 wounded. This left devastating effects long term and caused great terror among the people.

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In this image, the aftermath of an airstrike by Al-Qaeda on a city in Syria is shown, taken in December of 2014. The landscape is completely and undeniably devastated, dust still rising from the ruins. Two people can be seen on the streets, which are littered with piles of forgotten objects and furniture.

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This pictures shows a girls was sitting on the ruins of her family's home after the Beit Hanoun neighborhood of Gaza City was destroyed by Israeli Airstrikes on August 12, 2014. Palestinian resistance in Gaza has faced Israel's decade-long ethnic cleansing.

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John Wight has written for newspapers and websites across the world, including the Independent, Morning Star, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, London Progressive Journal, and Foreign Policy Journal. He is also a regular commentator on RT and BBC Radio. John is currently working on a book exploring the role of the West in the Arab Spring. You can follow him on Twitter @JohnWight1

Was there any equivalence between the Apache arrow and the Springfield rifle of the US Cavalry, the former exemplifying heroic if futile resistance to the latter?

Was there any equivalence between the aborigine and African spears and the guns of the white settlers and slavers who wrought their destruction and enslavement?

The answer is unequivocally no.

How, then, could there ever be a moral equivalence between the rockets and tunnels of an oppressed people in Gaza today, in 2014, and the F16 fighter jets, Apache helicopters, tanks, and navy battleships of their oppressor?

Prisoner of Love is the title of a memoir by the celebrated French novelist and playwright, Jean Genet, the enfant terrible of French literature and literary society from the postwar period through to the 1960s.

The book is a memoir of the time Genet spent with Palestinian refugees and resistance fighters in Jordan in 1970 and later in Lebanon. Indeed, it was upon witnessing the carnage wrought by Israel-backed Phalangists in Shatila refugee camp in 1982 that Genet was inspired to write the book, which was published in 1986. For those who haven't had the pleasure of reading it, Prisoner of Love offers a wonderfully poetic tribute to the oppressed and marginalized people whose resistance to their oppression is used to justify that oppression.

In this Genet, who in the book combines his experience of living among the Palestinian resistance with the time he spent with the Black Panthers in the United States, could also be speaking for the Native Americans, the Australian aborigines, the Algerians - in other words, every people throughout history whose resistance against colonialism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing stands as a testament to the power of the human spirit and a rejection of the received truths of those who assert the right to oppress and murder in the name of civilization and democracy. Humanizing those whose dehumanization is the sine qua non of their extinction is the very meaning of solidarity, a refutation of the notion that resistance is the cause rather than the symptom of oppression.

Palestinian resistance in Gaza to Israel's decades-long program of ethnic cleansing, siege, apartheid, occupation, and land theft has proved that the very worst of humanity, embodied in the cowardly and murderous violence visited on women and children by the laughably named Israel Defense Forces, has sat in contrast to the very best of it with the heroism and courage of this Palestinian resistance. Drawing on an arsenal mostly comprising homemade rockets and small arms, they have resisted an onslaught by a military superpower in a struggle to retain the one thing which lies between a bruised and battered people and their final destruction - human dignity.

The constant refrain that Palestinian resistance equates to terrorism continues the ignoble tradition of liberal apologia for the murder of children. In the midst of Israel's barbarous assault, involving schools, hospitals, and entire residential areas targeted in a war against morality and decency itself, the attempt to minimize the slaughter by equating the violence of this murderous state with the desperate resistance of a people all but condemned to subjugation and degradation, can only be the product of depravity.

Solidarity with those suffering the depredations of a brutal apartheid, settler colonial state such as the State of Israel requires the rejection of the narrative employed to accord said state the legitimacy employed to carry out war crimes and crimes against humanity. The moral high ground from which Western governments and their apologists lecture the world on democracy and human rights is in truth a stinking, smoldering dung heap of hypocrisy and double standards. This has never been more apparent than when it comes to the ability of Israel to continue to repeatedly flout and defy international law.

Hamas' refusal to acknowledge the right of a state to exist which has slaughtered, subjugated, and condemned its people to immiseration over decades does not describe their evil, it reflects their intelligence. Only the most grotesque and twisted logic could attempt to assert otherwise. In the last analysis, as Malcolm X reminds us, truth is on the side of the oppressed. This is why when the history of these past few weeks is written in years to come, the heroism of those who refused to remain on their knees against the crushing power of a state committed to their destruction will rightly be acknowledged.

In the meantime, and without equivocation, those of us who refuse to confound solidarity with paternalism acknowledge it now.

The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.

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John Wight has written for newspapers and websites across the world, including the Independent, Morning Star, Huffington Post, Counterpunch, London Progressive Journal, and Foreign Policy Journal. He is also a regular commentator on RT and BBC Radio. John is currently working on a book exploring the role of the West in the Arab Spring.

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This is a picture of a bombed city, Aleppo, Syria in 2012. It shows complete destruction of a city, while also showing some civilians going about their lives just as there were in the picture of Dresden in World War II. This picture shows the pure horror that is war.

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This picture shows the aftermath of a strike by Syrian government forces, which shows the people searching in ruins of destroyed buildings. This strike happened in the neighborhood of Jabal Bedro, Aleppo, Syria on Feb.19, 2013. This city has been a site of intense fighting and destruction.

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This is a picture of the Syrian city of Homs, one terrorist strongholds within Syria.  The city is completely decimated with many buildings looking as if they were about to or already had collapsed. This is all that is left from the fighting within Syria. This photo was taken September 2016.

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This is a picture of destruction in the city of Mosul Iraq. The city was occupied by ISIS and it took an 8 month long operation to drive them out. The picture was taken on July 2, 2017.

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This is an image from some fighting and war damage in Eastern Ukraine back in July of 2014. It is technically a civil war after the former president was ousted. it was tumored that it was inspired/started by UK, US, and other western countries.

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war-torn Syria depicting a general views that shows people passing along a destroyed street in al-Bab on March 29, 2017. This clearly shows a devastating effect of a war where the families are torn lost their homes.

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This is a photo of a man walking through the streets of Reyhanli, a coastal town of Turkey, after an alleged Syrian bomber planted a car full of explosives on the street in 2013. The town's people were shaken up, and the Turkish government at the time did not believe Syria's denial of responsibility despite the obvious regional tensions.

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This photo is of Aleppo after all the war and destruction that had taken place there. Aleppo, one of the largest cities in Syria, became a battleground in 2012. This is what is left over from the fighting that occurred there.