From genocide victims to genocide perpetrators in a little over eighty years. From Caitlin Johnstone at caitlinjohnstone.com:
I can’t stop tripping on how fast the west moved from arming and applauding Nazis to backing an actual genocide.
The premise behind this current onslaught and those which preceded it is that you can bomb people into consenting to oppression and apartheid. That you can abuse them into accepting abuse. The whole entire argument is that if you bomb and shoot and teargas and beat and imprison enough Palestinians with enough aggression, eventually they will see the error of their ways and accept the status quo you are trying to impose upon them.
This is of course stupid, and it is of course a lie. The idea was never really to abuse Palestinians into accepting abuse, that’s just the cover story; the real goal has always been to abuse them to the point where you can justify eliminating them. To push an inconvenient people into an impossible corner and then when they push back hard enough say “Well, we did all we can and we learned you just can’t help these savages. They’re going to have to go.”
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I can’t stop tripping on how fast the west moved from arming and applauding Nazis to backing an actual genocide.
