Yep, sometimes it just doesn't have to do with Israel :)
Well, the Americans used two nuclear devices to murder tens of thousands of the Japanese civilians. Not much remorse on the societal scale to this day (even though by now it is pretty much established that Japan by that time was a spent force
Historian Victor Davis Hanson points to the increased Japanese resistance, futile as it was in retrospect, as the war came to its inevitable conclusion. The Battle of Okinawa showed this determination to fight on at all costs. More than 120,000 Japanese and 18,000 American troops were killed in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific theater, just 8 weeks before Japan's final surrender. In fact, more civilians died in the Battle of Okinawa than did in the initial blast of the atomic bombings. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki#Support_for_use_of_atomic_bombs)
How many people do you think would die if there was a land invasion? You cannot judge such decisions in a vacuum, forgetting about what was the alternative in that war.
Anyway, it's kind of odd to bring up Hiroshima to exonerate Fisk's hatred of Israel.
Don't get me wrong, I find all kinds of terrorism equally disgusting, but if you look around you are gonna' see a lot of support for whomever this population or that views as the "good guys", no matter how much terror those good guys engage in. Look no further than Baruch Goldstein, for instance.
And how much support do you think he has in the Israeli society? What percentage?
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Re: FYI
Date: 2006-03-16 09:09 am (UTC)Yep, sometimes it just doesn't have to do with Israel :)
Well, the Americans used two nuclear devices to murder tens of thousands of the Japanese civilians. Not much remorse on the societal scale to this day (even though by now it is pretty much established that Japan by that time was a spent force
Historian Victor Davis Hanson points to the increased Japanese resistance, futile as it was in retrospect, as the war came to its inevitable conclusion. The Battle of Okinawa showed this determination to fight on at all costs. More than 120,000 Japanese and 18,000 American troops were killed in the bloodiest battle of the Pacific theater, just 8 weeks before Japan's final surrender. In fact, more civilians died in the Battle of Okinawa than did in the initial blast of the atomic bombings. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki#Support_for_use_of_atomic_bombs)
How many people do you think would die if there was a land invasion? You cannot judge such decisions in a vacuum, forgetting about what was the alternative in that war.
Anyway, it's kind of odd to bring up Hiroshima to exonerate Fisk's hatred of Israel.
Don't get me wrong, I find all kinds of terrorism equally disgusting, but if you look around you are gonna' see a lot of support for whomever this population or that views as the "good guys", no matter how much terror those good guys engage in. Look no further than Baruch Goldstein, for instance.
And how much support do you think he has in the Israeli society? What percentage?