I don't expect people on this list will stop debating this issue anytime soon because we hear about it constantly through the media, at least in the US. So why are we talking about atrocities on 10/7 rather than atrocities happening today like starvation as a tool of war? I think the answer is that massive US media corporations are setting the agenda and we opt to swim in their wake. Atrocious spectacles sell ads and orient the debate a certain way.
I was never on a debate team, but I wouldn't want to defend the proposition "Armies don't commit atrocities" if I were. Because we all know they do. At least anyone informed enough to bother debating would at least be willing to look up "abu ghraib prison" or "Nisour Square massacre." An older cohort will remember My Lai. Armies commit atrocities and you don't want them coming through your neighborhood. Years ago, Hamas declared that Israeli civilians are their legitimate military targets, and yet successive Israeli governments transferred funds to them. Netanyahu ignored warnings and the IDF was reportedly redeployed. Is Natanyahu wagging the dog? Why did Israel put their own people in such jeopardy? Was it stupidity, or did Israeli leaders make a conscious decision to trade the safety of Israelis for a weaker Palestine and stronger colonization of the West Bank? That's the atrocity we need to debate. We should focus less on their propaganda, IMHO, and more on how that propaganda serves US-Israel war policies. In the US we need to keep focus on the Biden policy of supplying munitions that are killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians and we need to advocate actions that are independent of the Democratic Party. Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29528): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29528 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104996214/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
