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NO DOUBLE STANDARDS...

In WWII Japan bombed Pearl Harbour bringing America into the war.... America later firebombed Tokyo.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Tokyo .. about 100,000 died.. America was able to establish a naval blockade that stopped food deliveries to Japan and starved the entire nation nearly into submission but starved them none the less..... To end the war two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki eventually killing close to 300,000 Japanese.. I read a LOT of history and context and I don't recall anyone from America feeling the least pity or regret at the measures taken to obtain the surrender of Japan with one condition that the emperor could remain emperor accepted by President Harry Truman... civilians were subjected to firebombing, starvation, nuclear weapons... they were ALL the enemy as far as everyone was concerned...
So why tell me when facing extreme barbarity.. loosing proportionately more than 20 times the population that America lost in the attacks on Pearl Harbour.. is Israel being harassed under a double standard to not only cease fire - but to actually entertain discussions on allowing a state to be created of miscreants and evil doers on Israels territory..? Why and we know the answer - is Israel being subjected to a double standard the likes that NO nation has EVER been held to ? Its called anti semitism, Jew hatred only because we are Jews and worse because we can now defend ourselves and the world does not seem to like a Jew who can fight back.... Israel has the ABSOLUTE right to defend itself and to shed itself permanently of the scourge of Hamas and terrorism, of the threat that Iran and its proxies represent.. and capitulation / appeasement .. as history teaches us is NOT ... an option.. DESTRUCTION and ELIMINATION of the enemy - a sworn enemy of the Jewish People is the ONLY OPTION..
I support the State of Israel, its inhabitants, Jews EVERYWHERE and I make ZERO apologies for this.. I don't care if they riot on Campuses -the few trying to convince the many.. to support the unsupportable... I am very grateful that the criminals ... are being arrested...
Jews you see require an additional character attribute.. A stiff backbone.. KNOWING what is morally correct and why we are acting - we were attacked and we warned ALL enemies that never again.. means exactly what it says.. There is a REASON Israel is at WAR.. and there is a reason we must FINISH this war and achieve ALL our objectives.. We can not fight eighty percent of a fire - we have to extinguish it..
So LIKE no one felt sorrow or pity for Japanese civilians who were killed in the prosecution of the war to achieve the surrender of the Japanese - Israel must continue to prosecute this war until Hamas has been defeated and Gaza has been SUBJUGATED and occupied just as Japan was... There is NO double standard the very same rules apply..
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The Bombing of Tokyo (東京大空襲, Tōkyōdaikūshū) was a series of bombing air raids launched by t
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badminton · 61-69, MVIP
General Eisenhower was opposed to using the atomic bombs on Japan. But he was overruled.
Patriot96 · 56-60, C
@badminton he fought the germans.
Japan trained everyone from elderly down to small children to fight with sharpened sticks.
Japan was killing about a quarter million people per day across the pacific
They would rather see there citizens starve than surrender
JSul3 · 70-79
@Patriot96 Should nuclear weapons ever be used again?
Patriot96 · 56-60, C
@JSul3 only in retaliation. At present they are the deterent.
Iran might initiate use. They are crazy
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@JSul3 No.
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pdqsailor1 · 61-69, M
@badminton it was Truman’s decision
pdqsailor1 · 61-69, M
@Patriot96 They in fact allowed their own citizens to starve without considering surrender..
@Patriot96

Japan was killing about a quarter million people per day across the pacific

Hmmmm... Here's a graphic of losses in the Second World War, in millions, per front per year.


Let's take the average amount:

Asia & Pacific theater:
(0.44 M deaths/yr) * 6 yr = 2.64 M deaths

Manchuria, Sakhalin theater:
(0.01 M deaths/yr) * 1 yr = 0.01 M deaths

2nd Sino-Japanese War during WWII:
(1.82 M deaths/yr) * 7 yr = 12.74 M deaths

Total = 15.39 M deaths

If you look at the 7 years of WWII, that would be

(12.74 M deaths)/(7 yr * 365.25 d/yr)
= 4.983 × 10^(-3) M deaths/day
= 4,983 deaths/day

Though the last year of the war is higher in casualties, it isn't 100 times higher. So I don't see how one can get to 500,000 deaths/day.

And if you weren't counting Chinese and Russian deaths in land battles, the numbers plummet.