Palestine - Japan, a comparison

I usually stay out of politics, but that may be the worst analogy I have ever seen. It toally ignores all the atrocities committed by the Japanese in Asia and Pacific Islands. Plus, there were decisions to try to prevent even more deaths if an invasion of Japan had occurred.

It's a pretty bad comparison considering we were at war with a country that attacked us, whereas Israel isn't at war with another country. But yeah, America was wrong for bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So the "radicalized" college students would be correct.

We don't need proportional killing. We need peace.

The more radical lefties of the 1940s were swooning over Soviet communism, and couldn't have cared less about how many Japanese or German civilians were killed.

How many of the Pearl Harbor dead were civilians?

Of couse there were no protesters because the american public was kept in the dark. Now anyone can be a reporter and post pictures.

I think the difference here is that Pearl Harbor was a direct attack on the US versus an attack against a US ally. Americans unify against direct attacks, e.g. 9/11. The US relationship with Israel has always had some level of controversy. The vast majority of Americans back Israel, but it's never too difficult to find leftwing extremists at colleges willing to protest. Throw in a bunch of antifa clowns wearing keffiyehs, and you got yourself the 2024 version of George Floyd.

Israel doesn’t actually have a bombing campaign against civilians like the allies did.

One night of allied bombing against civilians killed as many people in the seven months of the Gaza war.

@trollslayer Could be. It was late in the war. The Japanese were beat bad, but refused to surrender. Japanese atrocities to American GIs were well known. The war was about to change as the US was about to invade Okinawa. It seemed an invasion of mainland Japan would be necessary, and the Japanese were known to fight to the last man, and commit suicidal charges doomed to fail. Casualties were expected in the hundreds of thousands.


Would the US public even condone such a thing? The B-29s were now in range and the US had total air supremacy. Like an arrow pulled back at maximum tension.
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I’m not condoning the bombing but there is some context that makes the question more complex. The war had to end, and it still wouldn’t for another 5 months.

I hear you, but I know you understand that the same 'play book', is being used repeatedly.

Question is who allowed the college students to be radicalized?

Have you looked at Ukraine recently?

Japanese killed ALOT of civilians as well...