Israel Is Never ‘Defending Itself’, and the US Is Never ‘Defending Israel’

In the last few days Israel has assassinated leaders in multiple neighboring nations, assassinated multiple journalists, deliberately destroyed a water facility in Gaza during a polio outbreak, and had riots defending the right of IDF soldiers to rape Palestinian prisoners. Clearly the sort of country we should all want to send our sons and daughters to go fight and die for.

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Western officials are always babbling about Israel’s “right to defend itself”, which sparks all kinds of debates about w...