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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Bombing of Tokyo - Wikipedia
The Bombing of Tokyo (東京大空襲, Tōkyōdaikūshū) was a series of bombing air raids launched by t

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Ynotisay · M

A few things. One big difference is that over 100,000 Americans were killed at the hands of the Japanese in WW2. And those bombs, as unimaginably horrific as they were, ostensibly ended the war. And ultimately saved lives which is a strange thing but true. So maybe Americans had a little more skin in the game at the time.

Israel is targeting and killing innocent civilians under the guise of eliminating Hamas. That's a fact.

Terrorism can't be eliminated through force. It only creates more terrorism. That's true as well.

Antisemitism is about religion. Not a government. HUGE difference. There's a lot of Israeli Jews protesting their government right now. Are they antisemitic? That word is being thrown out there as a deflective smoke screen. Like it has throughout Israel's history. If you don't agree with the government you're an antisemite. I'm not buying it.

pdqsailor1 · 61-69, M

@Ynotisay The deaths at Pearl harbour were ~ 3500 enough to get America to declare war on Japan..

The deaths on October 7th were proportionally equivalent to America losing 70,000 people..

No some civilians are being killed who are being used by Hamas to protect them and their terror infrastructure which is imbedded within civilian areas.. What you stomp your little foot on the ground asserting as fact - is not fact...

Terrorism can INDEED be eliminated by force.. Its been done countless times in history.. Sometimes it depends how stiff your back bone really is..

Anti semitism - is rampant on university campuses and its gotten so bad your President just had to do a major speech against it.. Surprise Israel is a Jewish state and it happens to have elected a conservative Prime Minister and government.. You don't need to like him but YOU do not get a vote and your opinion does not matter - the opinions of Citizens of Israel who elected him matters..

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@pdqsailor1 Point of Order..Japan actually declared war on America after the Pearl Harbour attack. And Germany also obligingly declared war on America..😷

pdqsailor1 · 61-69, M

@whowasthatmaskedman FDR and congress declared war on Japan the following day.. Nazi Germany then declared war on America... .

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@pdqsailor1 Sorry. While you are correct in your statement, as far at it goes, The Japanese formal declaration was delivered to Washington 2 hours after the bombing. The story being delays in translation, but how true that is I cant attest. Here is your source..
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/japan-declares-war-1941#:~:text=(Gilder%20Lehrman%20Collection)%20On%20December,entry%20into%20World%20War%20II.