Except that the rebels didn’t create the empire that they had to destroy, and the empire wasn’t some tiny little swath of land with an oppressed people living on it being bombed out of existence by the rebels.

The Israeli government and military are committing war crimes on a daily basis and that’s all there is to that. Also Hamas is a terrorist organization and is also committing war crimes, likely on a daily basis, and that’s all there is to that. They both need to be punished for all the evil they’ve done.