Israel allegedly obtained approval for an operation in Rafah as long as it doesn't strike Iran, according to Qatari reports.
  • KrasnaiaZvezda@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 months ago

    Why is it phrased with such an emphasis on the “own people”?

    If they don’t say the “own” part this argument quickly gets used against the west, so as a means to dissociate their murderous regimes that mostly kill people in other countries from other countries they probably began using this argument like this as it wasn’t shot down as much and it stuck. Perhaps.

    • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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      7 months ago

      I think it’s as simple as implicitly assuming that everyone values the lives of people of other countries (particularly those where people don’t look, sound or act like them) less than the lives of people of their own country. They can’t help but projecting their own chauvinism/racism onto everyone else. They really believe that this is the default “natural” state of humanity. Yet another instance where the line between liberalism and fascism is incredibly blurred.