I have to admit some confusion here. Recently I learned that Israel bombed a residential area as part of what they referred to as “a “precise strike” on Hezbollah’s “central headquarters,” which it said had been “intentionally built under residential buildings” in Beirut. Here’s the thing though: Kids died. Children were murdered because they would not risk their own troops in trying to eliminate the enemy. Instead they presumed moral authority to kill anyone who was in the path of their target at the same time they scream that Israeli civilians should not have been murdered and kidnapped. This double standard is at the very heart of what is making me less and less sympathetic to the plight of the Israeli nation. At this point they are killing more children than militants on both war fronts, a truth that threatens to eliminate an entire generational population. At the very least they are doing more long term damage to the peace effort than anything else and I believe they absolutely know that.
Here is a fundamental truth: Israel believes their people has more of a right to life than their enemy. This is a fundamental truth of war. However, when it dips towards genocide the world usually gets mad. The world DID get mad. The ICJ said, “you guys are wrong. Stop.” Israel said no. The USA said we will agree with the court but continue to fund the Israeli war effort because we are politically hamstrung to do exactly that. The real concern is that Israel will not stop and will in fact expand the war effort. This is about Iran proxies right now. Once it grows larger than that; once it crosses a certain threshold it will become a world war. Why? Because if nobody steps in then Iran will feel vulnerable enough to need to accelerate its own nuclear defense and that is a line nobody will let them cross. Once that line is crossed, the game because an endgame.