georgephillip
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Most of the world sees how Israel didn't want to negotiate with a united Hamas/Fatah opponent so they seized the first available opportunity to squeal "SELF-DEFENSE" and pump up some more war profits.53 Palestinians killed, over 450 injured in Gaza assault | Maan News Agency
Such a proportional use of force. (sarcasm)
"Proportional use of force" is, of course, in the eye of the beholder and the Gazans will be beholden it for the foreseeable future. Please explain Israel's duty to defend themselves according to your rules.
Well most would see a 53+ body count for 3 deaths as retaliation and not self-defense.
It's why European imperialists created a Jewish state in the Middle East in the first place.
"Sir Ronald Storrs, the first Governor of Jerusalem, certainly had no illusions about what a 'Jewish homeland' in Palestine meant for the British Empire: 'It will form for England,' he said, 'a little loyal Jewish Ulster in a sea of potentially hostile Arabism.'
"Storrs analogy was no accident. Ireland was where the English invented the tactic of divide and conquer, and where the devastating effectiveness of using foreign settlers to drive a wedge between the colonial rulers and the colonized made it a template for worldwide imperial rule."
Divide and Conquer as Imperial Rules - FPIF