part of why 'we are all palestinians' is because we are all civilians. we are all people caught up in the power games of powerful elites and we all have the right not to be slaughtered in their games. we are all human beings who could end up herded in somewhere without our basic needs even being met and having weapons tested on us and having the world stand by and do nothing. we are all just people wanting to raise our children and live in dignity but vulnerable to the kind of psychopaths who develop and deploy weaponry designed for actual war upon civilian targets.
we are all just little pieces on the board who are increasingly seen as dispensable with our rights being eroded. we are all stuck with leaders who say they give their unconditional support to children being murdered in their beds by military level weaponry. if collective punishment is now 'ok' with our governments then we all face that threat too. if disagreeing with oppression or voting for the 'wrong' party means you can be reclassified as terrorists or 'human shields' then we're all under threat.
if what we believe, fight and march for makes zero difference to the people intended to represent us then we are all powerless. if it is ok to blow up a school full of children if it's deemed a potential weapons storage then all of our children are at risk.
if you're so shortsighted that you can't see that your 'side' is the weaponless civilians rather than militarised psychopathy then i worry for you. it matters not which tribal banner they're firing under. i'm not jewish/christian/muslim, i'm not british/israeli/russian - i am a normal civilian human being who is against the slaughtering of other civilian human beings.
did you see not long back loads of people got letters reminding them that their land belonged to the crown though it had never been mentioned before when they bought their homes and land in england? and it turned out to be the area where the natural gas for fracking lays? will you be cool when they come to turf them out from their homes and steal their land so they can access the resources there? will you be ok if someone bombs your child's school with them in it because there was a rumour that some group who disagreed with the governments plans had stored some weapons there?
the 'we' of we are all palestinians refers to us, the little civilians of this world without armies or tear gas or billions of dollars or the power to change laws and reclassify the value of human life by claiming 'there is no such thing as innocent civilians anymore', the little people who if we find ourselves being repressed and dare to resist we can be called terrorists and lose any human rights with the magic of one word.
i'm sorry people feel the need to identify with a tribal banner over and above identifying with their own humanity and that of others.