It is not even about October 7 anymore because there cannot be any appeasement of Zionists. There should not be any excuses, justifications or sympathy for Zionist project at all. As there cannot be any talks about "Palestinian violence" either. Zionism has to go, period. In the past, nobody in his sane mind was talking about "both sides" during Nazi conquest and Holocaust. Zionism is a continuation of Nazism. Before October 7, there was October 6, 5, 4, 3, before 2023 there was 2022 - 1948. And before 1948, there was Jewish Zionist terrorism in Palestine. Settler-colonialism, which is even based on complete erasure of one nation (with all its culture and history) and replacement of it by an imported, artificial population, cannot claim self-defense, unless it is a defense of genocidal settler-colonialism.