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Don’t Over-Stupid an Already Stupid Conversation

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Of all the stupid tropes that are used to describe the Israel-Palestine conflict:

What would politicians in Arizona, Texas and California do if Mexico were shooting rockets into Scottsdale, Houston or Los Angeles? You can bet it wouldn’t last almost ten years. More like ten hours, before the USA would unleash whatever force was necessary to protect the citizens of Arizona, Texas and California.

Would America keep the water and the electricity on for a people that were attacking her? Would anyone blame America for protecting their own people and showing strength? Would we care if the rest of the world disagreed?

No, we would care about one thing, and one thing only: protecting American’s and doing the best we could to minimize innocent civilians deaths.

Sure; in the past the United States has punctuated mild tolerance for pinprick attacks launched by indigenous peoples with vicious campaigns of extermination.  Many Americans have come to regret this particular reaction; others have not.  I daresay, however, that if a substantial group of Americans was subjected to land confiscation and occupation on a scale similar to that imposed upon the Palestinians, they would valorize heroic resistance in the face of impossible odds, however pointless and illegal that resistance might seem to outsiders, and  that they would engage in terrorist activity in hopes of overturning the existing political and military order.

And with respect to “But but but Hamas is BAAAD!!”, I agree that this might matter if we were talking about justice.  What we’re talking about, however, is the politics and psychology of vengeance.

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