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The Insane Idea That Nations Get To Do War Crimes Whenever Something Bad Happens To Them

• https://www.caitlinjohnst.one by CAITLIN JOHNSTON

Dropping military explosives on children is just as wrong now as it was on October 6th. Wars of aggression were just as wrong on September 12th 2001 as they were on September 10th. But there's this idiotic belief in mainstream culture that a nation experiencing a traumatic event means it gets to go on a murderous rampage until it feels better. 

As soon as the Hamas attack occurred we were inundated with messaging from the western political/media class which conveyed the idea that because something bad happened to Israel, Israel now gets to do a little genocide, as a treat. This is stupid nonsense, and should be rejected by all thinking people.

No other aspect of human life works like this. A normal guy isn't permitted to go on a shooting spree at his wife's workplace just because she cheated on him with Kyle from marketing. He's not even allowed to be mean to customers at work or he'll get fired. The rules don't stop applying to normal people just because something bad happened to them; only when we're thinking about the giant power conglomerates known as governments is this sloppy thinking ever taken seriously.


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