There's no actual basis for the pro-genocide position in truth, logic, or morality. It's a completely indefensible position, so self-evidently wrong that a child could recognize it at a glance
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Most Israel apologia is just saying ridiculous nonsense in an assertive tone and demanding to be taken seriously. They're butchering children by the thousands in a completely undisguised effort to purge all Palestinians from a Palestinian territory, and then spouting a bunch of transparently bogus talking points to try and spin this as fine and normal. But because mainstream institutions solemnly promote this obvious bullshit, we're expected to treat it like it's a completely valid position that needs to be respected.
There's no actual basis for the pro-genocide position in truth, logic, or morality. It's a completely indefensible position, so self-evidently wrong that a child could recognize it at a glance. But because support for Israel is so entrenched within our political-media class, and because Israel's supporters have such a solid understanding of the power of narrative control, they are able to promote this nakedly evil agenda by sheer force of will — just by saying their talking points in confident-sounding voices.
It's mostly just about tone. They have no arguments, so they rely heavily on authoritatively stated assertions, condescension, and rote repetition of the same tired slogans over and over again.
Such tactics are why so many westerners still believe Israel-Palestine is much too complicated an issue for them to take a solid position on. They see pundits and politicians defending Israel using smug, know-it-all mannerisms all throughout the political and media landscape, so they assume there must be more to this thing than it appears at first glance. If they just stuck with their initial intuition they'd wind up siding with Palestine, but the forceful feigned self-assuredness of Israel supporters shuts them down and shuts them up.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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