No dog in this fight....I speak only as a spectator... but IL has (in)advertantly created a whole new class of people who'll become their worst enemy in the times to come.
Exactly. As well as uniting Sunnis and Shiites against them. I thought Biden uniting China and Russia was some achievement, but Netanyahu has outdone him. The Israeli policy in Gaza is not going to make Israel a safer place.
There's a difference between bad things happening--which they do--and setting out with the deliberate intent to commit bad things. Einsatzgruppen, for example. The Allies did commit war crimes, but in general the military was not structured for the commission of war crimes. Nor was the overall doctrine or strategy predicated on the commission of war crimes.
As Mearsheimer and Crooke make very clear, that is exactly the case with Israel, and has been from the get go. The Israeli doctrine of deterrence is predicated on a strategy of massive, indiscriminate killing of civilians.
True, I'd forgotten some of those things. Wasn't there a difference in strategy between the Brits and the US re the strategic bombing. Wasn't the the US idea to go for actual strategic targets (industry) rather than terror bombing?
There have been some interesting comparisons of civilian casualties in Gaza v. Ukraine.
Kind of amusing, Nixon and Mearsheimer doing comedy routines. It's about morality, Zhou luvs Israel, etc.
Biden's absolute commitment to Israel was a blind spot for me.
But then again.....
My father's best friend was a Congressman from Florida for close to 30 years.
(They grew up together in Chevy Chase, DC in the 1940s an1950s)
He was a "True Conservative."
Back in the early 2000's he told my dad that if he said one negative thing about Israel that "AIPAC would be up my ass in 5 seconds and I'd be out."
Completely cut off from all fundraising and possibly face financial ruin.
That was 20 years ago and from where I am sitting it's worse now.
No dog in this fight....I speak only as a spectator... but IL has (in)advertantly created a whole new class of people who'll become their worst enemy in the times to come.
The Children.
Exactly. As well as uniting Sunnis and Shiites against them. I thought Biden uniting China and Russia was some achievement, but Netanyahu has outdone him. The Israeli policy in Gaza is not going to make Israel a safer place.
There's a difference between bad things happening--which they do--and setting out with the deliberate intent to commit bad things. Einsatzgruppen, for example. The Allies did commit war crimes, but in general the military was not structured for the commission of war crimes. Nor was the overall doctrine or strategy predicated on the commission of war crimes.
As Mearsheimer and Crooke make very clear, that is exactly the case with Israel, and has been from the get go. The Israeli doctrine of deterrence is predicated on a strategy of massive, indiscriminate killing of civilians.
True, I'd forgotten some of those things. Wasn't there a difference in strategy between the Brits and the US re the strategic bombing. Wasn't the the US idea to go for actual strategic targets (industry) rather than terror bombing?
There have been some interesting comparisons of civilian casualties in Gaza v. Ukraine.
Propaganda free zone.