this post was submitted on 29 Sep 2024
40 points (88.5% liked)

Progressive Politics

936 readers
171 users here now

Welcome to Progressive Politics! A place for news updates and political discussion from a left perspective. Conservatives and centrists are welcome just try and keep it civil :)

(Sidebar still a work in progress post recommendations if you have them such as reading lists)

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
40
Biden Praises Carpet-Bombing in Beirut, Tlaib Condemns US-Funded “Bloodbath” (truthout.org)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The president called Israel’s attack, which flattened a residential city block, “a measure of justice.”

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not looking to minimize of the situation or its assessment but the quotation in the article from Biden’s address actually reads:

“Hassan Nasrallah and the terrorist group he led, Hezbollah, were responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade reign of terror. His death from an Israeli airstrike is a measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese civilians.”

It’s the killing of Hassan Nasrallah he calls “a measure of justice,” not Isreal’s attack…for what it’s worth.

[–] BrikoX 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

“Hassan Nasrallah and the terrorist group he led, Hezbollah, were responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade reign of terror. His death from an Israeli airstrike is a measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese civilians.”

Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden and governments led by them were responsible for killing thousands of Lebanese and Palestinian civilians in just the past year alone as part of state terrorism and genocide. Would killing them be "a measure of justice" by the same standard (I'm not advocating for violence, just asking a theoretical question)?

It’s the killing of Hassan Nasrallah he calls “a measure of justice,” not Isreal’s attack <...>

Isn't that one and the same in this case? If killing one valid target requires killing many innocent people, that's not justice, that's terrorism by US own definition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Agreed which is why I think what Biden said is originally stupid and Tlaib is the correct thing to say