It's also interesting because, on the flipside, Israel's main crime is mere recency. You can say their actions are evil or not. But their main optics issue is just that they're doing it now. If they'd done it one hundred years ago...ancient past, who cares?
To be clear, for the record, I condemn what Israel is doing. But it really is a matter of victors writing history, and we in the present living through history. What Israel is doing is totally barbaric. But we accept a lot of barbarism from those that won in the past. It's an interesting double standard, and an interesting thought experiment.
And, yeah, Germany is a bit of a weird juxtaposition. Germany certainly committed atrocities (everyone did), but it seems they could have done a lot worse, but held back. For whatever reasons. And, from everything I've heard, Hitler absolutely despised chemical weapons, having served in WW1. Some claim that's not true, and I certainly can't claim to know, but whether for tactical or moral reasons, it's a fact he didn't use them.
I'm not even picking sides here, but if the Axis had won, the Allies would have been villainized for numerous crimes they did commit, and numerous crimes they didn't, while the Axis's crimes would be swept under the rug. It's just how things work.
It's also interesting because, on the flipside, Israel's main crime is mere recency. You can say their actions are evil or not. But their main optics issue is just that they're doing it now. If they'd done it one hundred years ago...ancient past, who cares?
To be clear, for the record, I condemn what Israel is doing. But it really is a matter of victors writing history, and we in the present living through history. What Israel is doing is totally barbaric. But we accept a lot of barbarism from those that won in the past. It's an interesting double standard, and an interesting thought experiment.
And, yeah, Germany is a bit of a weird juxtaposition. Germany certainly committed atrocities (everyone did), but it seems they could have done a lot worse, but held back. For whatever reasons. And, from everything I've heard, Hitler absolutely despised chemical weapons, having served in WW1. Some claim that's not true, and I certainly can't claim to know, but whether for tactical or moral reasons, it's a fact he didn't use them.
I'm not even picking sides here, but if the Axis had won, the Allies would have been villainized for numerous crimes they did commit, and numerous crimes they didn't, while the Axis's crimes would be swept under the rug. It's just how things work.