Bill Clinton defends mass murder of civilians in #Gaza #genocide
Speaking in Michigan on Monday, former President Bill Clinton justified the US-Israeli genocide in Gaza, openly advocating the targeting of civilians and collective punishment against non-combatants, both of which are war crimes.
âArab Americans in Michigan think too many people have died,â Clinton said. âPeople who criticize it are essentially saying ... look how many people youâve killed in retaliation. So how many is enough for you to kill to punish them for the terrible things they did?â
To this, Clinton replied, âWhat would you do if ... one day they come for you and slaughtered the people in your village, you would say ... Iâm not keeping score that way. ... It isnât how many weâve had to kill.â
Clintonâs justification for the Israeli genocide flagrantly violates both criminal and international law, neither of which allows ârevengeâ as the justification for the murder of unarmed people.
The law of ârevengeâ was, in fact, the policy pursued by Nazi Germany during World War II in response to acts of resistance against their brutal occupation of Europe. After the assassination of leading Nazi Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazis indiscriminately massacred civilians in the Czech village of Lidice. Following a bomb attack on German auxiliary police units in Rome in March 1944, the Nazi occupiers ordered a ratio of 10 civilian deaths for every policeman killed. In what became known as the Ardeatine Caves massacre, they shot 335 Italian civilians in the head, none of whom had any connection with the attack.
- This is actually not true, the law of revenge, was a common practice by colonialists in the past 500 years all over the world. Their atrocities are not being highlighted or remembered because of the selective historical amnesia or simply ignorance of the people writing these articles. /Farhad
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