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Gaza activists believe that Palestinian lives, lots of time, are on the line right now, which is indeed at any given moment true to some degree (tens? hundreds? thousands? tens of thousands?). They also believe that the West has, within it hands, power to stop Israel on its tracks right now, though typically this doesn't go all the way to promote a direct military intervention. Climate activists, even the most fervent ones, tend to believe in longer timescales - even if they believe that climate effects are killing people now, they acknowledge that any law that might be passed due to their actions will only have an effect within a longer period, and that effect will be at most something that blunts the effect, not stop it completely.
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