If there’s a bad guy in the back of the ambulance wagon, and you are the leader of the posse who is supposed to be bringing him to justice, and your solution to the situation is to vaporize the wagon with a missile, then you, my friend, would rightly be classified as a homicidal fucking lunatic.
And, you have no possible grounds for claiming that it was an act of self-defense. If you told a judge that you had “a right to defend yourself”, and that’s why you nuked the wagon, killing the first responders along with the guy you claim was bad, it would be an open and shut case, and that judge would happily sentence you to the maximum hard time.
Something of the same scenario is playing out right now in the court of public opinion.
Half of the people killed by Israeli bombs in Gaza in the last month have been …
Women. And children.
There are thousands of them. There are still live babies buried in the rubble with their arms sticking out, and the Rulers of the apartheid state have made sure that there is not fuel or electricity enough for any tool to try and free them. No food. No drinkable water.
No humanity.
Any old “YesBut” you can throw at me leaves you on thin cracking moral ice. That’s been true for decades. It’s more true now. And majorities across the world, even in the West, even within the boundaries of the formal Empire, are finally opening their eyes to that simple fact.
There’s less and less difference in people’s minds between the holocaust the Jews went through eighty years ago, and the one the Israels are perpetrating right now in real time with your tax dollars.
Genocide is genocide. Ethnic cleansing is ethnic cleansing.
Nazis gonna Nazi.
The Germans were a secular state, but of course they believed that God was on their side.
Israel is a quasi-democratic theocracy, run by Zionists, for Zionists, and fuck the savages who lived there before 1948, if they can’t be happy with their ever-shrinking reservations and concentration camps.
I want to know if that makes it better or worse for you. The comments section is open.
But before you even go there, I’d like you to see two video clips.
The first is from a Western Jew, a child himself of the Holocaust, and a brilliant philosopher of trauma.
Dr. Gabor Mate: this is genocide
The second is from an American black woman, a millionaire MSNBC anchor who can almost always be counted on for the shittiest neo-libtard take on any subject you care to name–except not this time.
SHE SAID IT: Joy Reid Calls Out WAR CRIMES on MSNBC
If, after listening to the wise man and the blind squirrel with a lucky nut, you can still look me in the eye and spout the same nonsense that has dominated the discourse for decades …
I just don’t know what to say to you any more. I despair of there ever being change; I despair for your soul.
Go with God in any case, and I do not mean some old testament Yahweh screaming of eyes for eyes.
