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Ukraine and Palestine are not equivalent at all. If you want to make crude analogies, it's closer to this:
Gaza Strip = Donbass
Hamas and other Palestinian militants = Donbass separatists
Israel = Ukraine (or post-Maiden Ukraine if you want to be more pedantic)
Hezbollah or Iran = Russia
The equivalent of the IDF bombing Gaza is the Ukrainian army shelling the Donbass. If Hezbollah were to invade Israel from the north and be within walking distance from Tel Aviv, that would be the equivalent of Russia invading Ukraine and reaching the outskirts of Kiev. If Iran were to launch missiles at key locations in Israel, that would be the equivalent of Russia launching missiles at key locations in Ukraine.
And this isn't even considering that Israel is a settler colony, and we should always support the downfall of settler colonies regardless of whether they're in the right for a particular situation. Neither Ukraine nor Russia are settler colonies. At best, you can argue Crimea is a Russian settler colony because the tsar ethnically cleansed Crimea of Crimean Tatars, but neither Ukraine nor Russia are interested in establishing an independent Crimean Khanate, so it's just two groups of eastern Slavs fighting over a peninsula that neither group is indigenous to.
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