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That's absurd. Many of the residents of these kibbutz were pro-Palestinian activists doing charity and solidarity work with pro-Palestinian organizations, especially around Gaza.
Calling my criticism of your materialism statement "an unjustified generalization" is amusing, but you're the one that brought up material causes.
Does Israel look weak to you? Tens of thousands of Palestinians dead and settlers ready to move into Gaza is weak? Does Netanyahu look like he's failing? This is just idiocy to defend your ideology, no matter how much it appears to fail. Gaza was still there, Apartheid certainly, but it was there. It's not there anymore. That's not a generalization, it's a mammoth strategic blunder by hamas.
You think a blockade and targetting aid workers requires advanced munitions? This is ludicrous. It could be done with bullets, cheap drones. This is just wishful thinking.
You haven't provided any sources, and its on the person making the claim to support their arguments. "Do your own research" is not a legitimate defense, which is basically what you're trying to say.
Very conveniently omitting that the ANC was crushed and Mandela was imprisoned. Sure, there was some martyrdom there that inspired a broader global resistance, but it's that global resistance that got the results. Sorry if this runs counter to your ideology, though, but it's not "Absolutely incorrect." Your faith in your ideology is not the sole arbiter of factuality in the world.
Sorry for disgusting you, but the world is a complicated place. Not to say that the VC does not deserve credit for an effective guerilla campaign, but without widespread American resistance to the war, it would have certainly continued. You may like to simplify things down to winners and losers when convenient for you, but its just messier than that. The whys are important, and effective fighting by the VC is not the sole "why".
Yeeeaah, I'm not the one living in a fairy tale just because I look at all the causes for something, rather than simply focusing in on the ones that make me feel the best. If I am so incorrect, you are more than welcome to source your arguments, though I think we both know your sources are probably all political in nature instead of rigorously historic examinations of all the available evidence.