Comment by Cthulhu_
1 day ago
I'm not defending Israel, but just because it commits genocide doesn't mean it's not a good democracy - worse, if it ranks highly on a democracy index, it implies the population approves of the genocide.
But that's more difficult to swallow than it being the responsibility of one person or "the elite", and that the population is itself a victim.
Same with the US, I feel sorry for the population, but ultimately a significant enough amount of people voted in favor of totalitarianism. Sure, they were lied to, they've been exposed to propaganda for years / decades, and there's suspicions of voter fraud now, but the US population also has unlimited access to information and a semblance of democracy.
It's difficult to correlate democracy with immoral decisions, but that's one of the possible outcomes.
Democratic genocides are the fairest and most equal of the genocides.
>Israel ranks high on democracy indicies
>population approves of the genocide.
Getting your average Zionist to reconcile these two facts is quite difficult. They cry "not all of us!" all the time, yet statistically speaking (last month), the majority of Israelis supported complete racial annihilation of the Palestinians, and over 80 percent supported the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.[0]
I find the dichotomy between what people are willing to say on their own name versus what they say when they believe they are anonymous quite enlightening. It's been a thing online forever, of course, but when it comes to actual certified unquestionable genocide, they still behave the same. It's interesting, to say the least. I wish it was surprising, however.
[0] https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/majority-israelis-support...