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'Why aren't you in the Hague?': Blinken's final press briefing descends into chaos
(www.middleeasteye.net)
so, to the "overwhelming majority of Israelis" comment: This is the full comment
if I may engage in a bit of sane washing for just a second.... I think what he's trying to say is that our approach was tempered by the extreme emotions being felt by israelis basically as a whole. And Yes, I sort of get what he's saying. ultimately its the same argument zionists use to justify aid to Israel for... well... longer than I've been alive. basically, that our aid gives us a leash to help restrain Israel from doing... a genocide.
it's actually even more infuriating than the idea that he's drafting american policy according to the polling of foreign nationals, personally.
I remember 9/11 and where I was (highschool. i was in the school's graphics lab. The teacher just went and turned on the TV news and we spent the entire class in stunned silence. I still remember the musty smell of commercial carpet and school-basement.)
I remember very well the anger and rage I felt. People needed to pay. it didn't help that certain people took advantage of that attack specifically to satisfy their own agenda and greed, inflaming emotions. anyone who is right-thinking should have a sense of shame about what we- as americans- did to Iraq and Afghanistan. This is not to say we should have done nothing, but rather that what we did do was shameful, and we could, and should, have done better.
So yes, I do have some sympathy, some understanding, of what Israelis are feeling.
But that hurt and fear does not, could not, and must never justify genocide.
Blinken is patting himself on the back for getting an asshole to stop throwing bricks, conveniently ignoring that he was the one handing the asshole bricks in the first place, and that the asshole only stopped after it completely knocked out every window and most the doors in this proverb.
One does not give a child who is lashing out in rage a knife.
One does not give a bully, who just found out what happens when you push to hard, too far, and get punched in the face, a fucking gun.
It is immoral, unethical, and blatantly illegal to give a genocidal regime the tools they want, to continue prosecuting genocide.
It is not necessary to accommodate their demands for more weapons, to respect, and to have sympathy for the loss and hurt and fear. Accommodating those demands in abeyance of US law; and frankly, just plain common sense,