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Israel, the Empire, which has invaded a native population and colonizes it can try to paint itself as the victim. Yet the glaringly obvious truth remains that they are the Empire not the resistance.
Throwing a pity party does not make the Sith Jedis.
Star Wars was based off the Vietnam war where we demonized the Vietcong, famous for their guerilla warfare and tunnel networks. Time is a flat circle.
Star Wars is based on many conflicts. WWII being the big one, the Empire had the look and feel of Space Nazis, the trench run was based on a dam busting raid in WWII, the battle on Hoth is based on Dunkirk, Lando is Neville Chamberlain trying to make a deal with fascists, etc.
RotJ was trying to depict Vietnam, but it's depiction was problematic. It was originally conceived to be Wookies against the empire but Lucas decided against that and went with Ewoks because he could make them to be primitive in the same way he saw the Vietnamese as being. It was the start of the Lucas trend of making aliens that were problematic depictions of various real world races, which wasn't a good thing.
https://www.cbr.com/george-lucas-vietnam-war-star-wars-inspiration/