Oddbean new post about login | logout Anybody still defending Israel right now is just racist.
What if you just are not giving a fuck?
...then you wouldn't defend/excuse/gaslight, just ignore.
Maybe a few are sincerely racists. But most Western Israel-worshippers are just shameless and highly-attuned weathervanes for POWER. Many are into brutality-porn as well, its like pyromania for politics. But even they don't care what colour bodies are crushed and torn, only that they are crushed and torn. They like dead Bosnians, Armenians and Russians just as much.
Nah... Ppl defending Israel see it for what it is: tiny country led by a lousy leader; forced into a war it didn't want & being pilloried for responding in the only reasonable way.
When you shoot three escaping POWs, bare-chested, calling in Hebrew and carrying a white flag, and then hunt down the survivor, because you thought they were "enemy" civilians, you are not responding in a "reasonable way". What the Netanyahu government is doing is the Lidice Massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidice_massacre on a huge scale.