• Excrubulent@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    And? You’re allowed to say what you mean, you know.

    Where do the civilians being bombed fall on your spectrum of evil? Do they somehow deserve it in your eyes?

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      Ok, I have to ask. How would you apply this to any other conflict. For example the Allies fighting against Germany. Where did the German civilians fall in the spectrum of evil. Was fighting Germany justified, knowing that German civilians might suffer? If so, how is this situation different?

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        Strategic bombing - ie, the indiscriminate bombing of populated areas - was ineffective and immoral, and people at the time condemned it as such, and they were right to do so. It was also wrong to use Japanese cities as testbeds for nuclear arms. There was no real strategic reason to do it.

        So like… don’t do that? Maybe Israel shouldn’t do that, because fucking obviously?

        Like yes, there were bad states on the allied side in WWII as well. You can see that in how they conducted themselves after the war was over, and at many points before that. In fact the policies of the Nazis were directly inspired by US genocides.

        You’re not going to trip me up by bringing up the Nazis. I said states are the enemy of the people, and I meant it.

        None of what I said should be construed as support for the fascist axis powers, that should just be obvious, but I’m sure I have to say it, because people are just going to try it on.

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          But you’re still ok with using artillery against a city if the city has an army in it?

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              What? Why? Where did I say that? What the fuck are you talking about?

              I asked how this conflict was different and you started talking about a completely different topic like stategic bombing. But Israel isn’t using strategic bombing, they’re using artillery and missiles. Just like how the allies did against Berlin and other German cities when fighting the Germans. So how is this different?

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                The difference is that Israel has been colonising the west bank for over 70 years. They are the aggressors. They are more analogous to the Nazis in WWII for that reason anyway.

                And yes, just like there were bad actors on the allied side in WWII, Hamas is also a bad actor.

                This isn’t… COMPLICATED.

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                  This isn’t… COMPLICATED.

                  Honestly that’s a pretty strange thing to say about one of history’s most complicated and oldest conflicts. If it was as simple as random dudes online think it is, don’t you think this issue would have been somehow resolved by now?

                  Both the Israelis and the Palestinians have tribal roots in the region dating back thousands of years.

                  The region also has religions significance to all three of the big western religions.

                  And to make it even more complicated, the region has been under the control of multiple empires over the last 3000 years: waring tribes, Egyptians, Assyrians, Romans, Byzantines, the second Muslim caliphate, the Ottomans, the British, and I’m sure I’m skipping more. Israel and Palestine as nations where effectively created at around the same time post WW1 (see the Mandate for Palestine and the Balfour Declaration).

                  So sure… It’s possible that you’re so much smarter than everyone else that one of the world’s oldest conflicts is trivial to you, OR, just maybe it’s a little bit more complicated than you and some other people let on…

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                    This is why it’s happening: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4962369/user-clip-joe-biden-israel-usa-invent-israel-protect-interest-region

                    “Were there not an Israel the United States of America would have to invent an Israel to protect her interest in the region.”

                    Biden has reiterated this sentiment since this situation has started. His stance is completely unchanged. He admits openly that it is a power play, so any posturing about a “sacred bond” or whatever is bullshit.

                    It is power politics. The US is propping up Israel as a projection of power, and with that Israel has become ever more fascist without any accountability, and they have perpetrated a genocide because they have the power to, just like any state would in those circumstances, because they are all sociopathic institutions. That’s it. There’s nothing special about the Jewish nature of the state, it’s got nothing to do with religion, that’s just an excuse that gets laid over the top of what is simple exploitation.

                    It’s a land grab and a genocide, and Hamas was propped up by Israel to serve their interests at the time. In fact you could say they’re still serving Israel’s interests, because Israel the state has no real interest in protecting their own civilians, they only want their land grab.

                    The “it’s complicated” bullshit is just there to muddy the waters. It’s a lazy handwave to cover the fact that you can’t excuse genocide.

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                  Israel pulled out of Palestine in 2005 and Palestine elected their own government, at that point they’re an independent nation.