Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right

Looks like the Israeli settlers on the West Bank have been attacking Palestinians. These Palestinians have nothing to do with the war in Gaza, but the aggressive settlers want to punish them anyway. As for the Gaza war itself, Israel continues to exact its revenge on Gaza, while the US tries again to tell them not to commit war crimes.

Wonkette is continuing to have disagreements about how to cover the war in Israel. People are getting offended by others discussing Israel's apartheid, and people are claiming that we're minimizing the terror that Israelis went through on October 7th. But I'm not denying anything they suffered. Yes, they suffered immensely, and the remaining hostages continue to suffer! But Palestinians have been suffering too for a long time, and they continue to be targeted for undeserved revenge right now. Hamas are the terrorists, not the civilians. As I've said before, two wrongs don't make a right. Israel's apartheid against the Palestinians does not justify the rape, murder, and kidnapping of Israeli civilians on October 7th. But also, Hamas's crimes on October 7th do not justify Israel conducting their war so savagely and indiscriminately. They have "the right to defend themselves" of course, but they are doing much more than "defense" in any real sense; they are terrorizing civilians and trapping them in war zones. It's overkill, just as I predicted, and people can't get out of Gaza for any safety. The US government repeatedly tells Israel that it can't keep attacking civilians, but we have yet to see them punish Israel for crossing red lines. Why can't we stop funding Israel, or reduce the funding, at all? Why can't Israel punish those fucking settlers for actual crimes, instead of being complicit and supportive of them? Why the fuck couldn't Biden say "we don't know for sure who bombed that hospital; let's wait for the forensic evidence" instead of immediately taking Israel's side?

That's what's disillusioning some people from Biden. I'm disillusioned, though I'm not a young person anymore. I will still vote for Biden in the election, just as I voted for Hillary Clinton, but I don't know for sure if some of the younger people will go 3rd party or sit at home in protest. It depends on what happens in the war I guess. Centrist Democrats have to deal with their disconnect from progressives on Israel.