President Lee Jae Myung shared a video on social media, Friday, alleging that Israeli soldiers abused a Palestinian child and then threw him off a rooftop.
President Lee Jae Myung shared a video on social media, Friday, alleging that Israeli soldiers abused a Palestinian child and then threw him off a rooftop.
The Cambodian auto-genocide under Pol Pot was much bigger, so was the Rwandan genocide.
But it’s still a genocide regardless. And calling it a holocaust just invites nitpicking over particular details.
Pol Pot and Rwanda weren’t directly aided and funded by most westerners tax dollars, nor committed explicitly and on daily video by their ‘allies’.
Nitpicking over such details doesn’t change the particulars.
Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were funded by the US AND China until the late 80’s
Don’t get me wrong, fuck Israel, but it is incorrect to say that Pol Pot wasn’t funded by the west.
America supported Pol Pot in the U.N., yes, but the direct aid continues to be denied/mired in controversy, whereas the funding of Israel is an integral part of the American electoral system and not some backroom deal of the executive.
The difference in that alone, aid or not, is especially pertinent with Israel. It’s not a denial of aid to the Khmer Rouge, but the fundamental nature of the aid to Israel that is different.