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One in 100 people in Gaza has been killed since October 7
(edition.cnn.com)
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History and how it went is written by the winners not losers. Germany and the US took those stances because of who lost and who won. As long as israel „wins“ (in whatever definition) it will write its history as a winner.
You give too little credit to the German people.
Also genocide is critical part of Israel's existence so I'd be very disappointed if they don't seriously reflect on this at least. Though I guess you should never underestimate a cult.
Too little credit? You can't seriously believe they'd be in the same state today if they'd won WW2. The only reason there's been any reckoning is because they lost and were forced to confront their crimes.
There won't be a reckoning in Israel because they aren't going to lose and no one will force them to confront it.
Judging by their continued "unwavering support" for Israel, it looks like their "confronting with their crimes" and their "never again" was only ever the racism-preserving "Turns out Jews are like us so we really regret what we did to them" rather than the humanist "Something like this should never be done to anybody again".
Certainly Germany's posture in all this has been the deeply racist "We have to support the Jewish people no matter what" rather than the actual humanist posture of "Mass murdering people because of their etnicity is unacceptable no matter who does it".
The Nazis might have been kicked out of Germany by the Allies, but it looks like the cold calculating racist way of judging the worth of people and their right to live, using their etnicity, never left the German Hearth.
(I'm profoundly dissapointed with German and Germans in this)
Both statements can be true. Read it again.
Read what again? You said nothing other than Germans don't get enough credit, which is bunk, and then you talked about Israel. If anything, they get too much credit, we are talking about acknowledging genocide. It isn't something you should get credit for because it never should've happened in the first place. And it wasn't even a choice, outside forces compelled them to own up to what they did.
Really? You shouldn't credit people for awareness and change?
Maybe if Americans did that you guys wouldn't be burning books about slavery lol
Germans continued to profess unwavering support for Israel as Palestinian children's bodies pilled up, so clearly their "awareness" isn't that "all mass murder of people simply for their etnicity is wrong" but rather the very specific "what we did to the Jewish People was wrong".
The former would've been "awareness", but judging by their behaviour in this what they've learned is not that a specific kind of action is wrong but rather that a specific instance against a specific people of acting thus is wrong - or if you will and using a metaphor, they didn't learn that stealing is wrong, they learned that them stealing from that specific target is wrong.
Learning to "Not steal from that person again" when caught and punished isn't really deserving of much credit.
You are using two very different things interchangeably here: genocide and acknowledgement of genocide. Acknowledgement isn’t the right description in any case, maybe education would be more accurate. Germany „gets credit“ for it, because sadly, in comparison to most other nations, it does it well. And acknowledging this might make others reconsider.
How do you explain the difference between Germany and Japan in this regard?
Yep, and they proceeded to do it (partway through) in 1949.
That’s a meme, it’s not how history works or how it ever has worked.