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 thought experiment for you: if you are a Palestinian and say "boy it sure sucks Israeli bombs are destroying my family and home" does that lead to Israel deliberately targeting you for retribution? no. Does saying "fuck Hamas" on camera as a Palestinian result in reprisal? probably. 

you can't judge people based solely on abstractions like you have when those people are caught in a hellish dictatorship cauldron. You would behave exactly as they are if you were caught in similar circumstances