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- Jul 2, 2018
I see people calling Palestinians animals for their approach to war. There is no such thing as a truly civilized war that I know of, not one that involves violence anyway. "Well it's different when civilians are involved." Okay but where was that energy when Israeli forces were endangering civilians? "Well some got hurt as collateral damage trying to take out the terrorists." Is bombing a group civilians ethical as long as there's one terrorist?
None of these rationalizations pass the sniff test. It's all BS excuses. When the US bombed Japan claiming it was the only way out of WWII, which really it was to see how effective the bombs were on civilian targets, we made ourselves feel better by pretending it was more civilized than anything the Nazis or Soviets had done.
Western media and government do not want to charge Israel with human rights violations, so they must justify it by saying that any casualties were necessary to prevent US from getting involved. Though we are already involved not so discreetly through decades of financing Israel's military. Now we are sending more money and troops near the region to back Israel regardless of their actions in this conflict, justifiable or not.
It doesn't matter whether Biden or Trump is in office right now. It doesn't matter whether Palestine is civilized or not. Our Western politicians are duty-bound to Israel as part of some blood pact.
None of these rationalizations pass the sniff test. It's all BS excuses. When the US bombed Japan claiming it was the only way out of WWII, which really it was to see how effective the bombs were on civilian targets, we made ourselves feel better by pretending it was more civilized than anything the Nazis or Soviets had done.
Western media and government do not want to charge Israel with human rights violations, so they must justify it by saying that any casualties were necessary to prevent US from getting involved. Though we are already involved not so discreetly through decades of financing Israel's military. Now we are sending more money and troops near the region to back Israel regardless of their actions in this conflict, justifiable or not.
It doesn't matter whether Biden or Trump is in office right now. It doesn't matter whether Palestine is civilized or not. Our Western politicians are duty-bound to Israel as part of some blood pact.