“I don’t think we would so lightly throw around the term ‘innocent Nazi civilians’ during World War II.”
Not that this is at all the point of any of this, but yes we very much fucking would, and did. Ministers in the UK government pushed back against Churchill’s desire to bomb German civilians in retaliation for the bombing of London, saying it would “put us on the same plane morally as they are.” Eventually of course there was bombing of non-military targets in Germany, including the infamous firebombing of Dresden, and the British war government faced some fiery criticism at home because they were killing innocent people, and many of the British people understood that deliberately killing innocent people isn’t a part of legitimate war strategy, whatever it is that the guilty people were doing that you’re “retaliating” for.
I think it’s also worth pointing out the inherent falseness of the analogy. They were innocent German civilians, not Nazi civilians. By equating Germans with Nazis, Mast is equating Palestinians with Hamas.
Not that this is at all the point of any of this, but yes we very much fucking would, and did. Ministers in the UK government pushed back against Churchill’s desire to bomb German civilians in retaliation for the bombing of London, saying it would “put us on the same plane morally as they are.” Eventually of course there was bombing of non-military targets in Germany, including the infamous firebombing of Dresden, and the British war government faced some fiery criticism at home because they were killing innocent people, and many of the British people understood that deliberately killing innocent people isn’t a part of legitimate war strategy, whatever it is that the guilty people were doing that you’re “retaliating” for.
I think it’s also worth pointing out the inherent falseness of the analogy. They were innocent German civilians, not Nazi civilians. By equating Germans with Nazis, Mast is equating Palestinians with Hamas.