The author backhandedly puts out as his first line that Israel committed genocide, and then goes on to talk of what other people did in the past without mentioning the Mideast or Israel again. In point of fact, Israel did NOT commit genocide, not by a long shot. Israel was (is?) fighting a war, and in all wars innocents die - and under international law, blame for that is assigned to the country that started the war. Unless, that is, the victim country engages in war crimes, which Israel did not. In fact, Israel went out of its way, and lost more of its own soldiers, because it was trying to AVOID civilian casualties.
But why should Armstrong bother to mention those facts? Instead, he leaves the genocide charge just hanging there, the PIS.
*POS.
The author backhandedly puts out as his first line that “”Israel committed genocide, and then goes on to talk of what other people did in the past without mentioning the Mideast or Israel again. In point of fact, Israel did NOT commit genocide, not by a long shot. Israel was (is?) fighting a war, and in all wars innocents die - and under international law, blame for that is assigned to the country that started the war. Unless, that is, the victim country engages in war crimes, which Israel did not. In fact, Israel went out of its way, and lost more of its own soldiers, because it was trying to AVOID civilian casualties.””
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Spot on.