Thread by @peterdaou

🧵IMAGINE: Destroying Chicago in "self-defense"

Chicago and #Gaza have roughly similar population sizes. Let's substitute 'Chicago' for 'Gaza' to describe the scale of events:

Imagine in 1948, Chicago's residents are forced from their homes and subjected to brutal occupation...

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Between 2008 and 2022, more than 6,000 Chicagoans are killed, mostly women and children, compared to around 300 occupiers. The occupiers also imprison thousands of Chicagoans (including kids) often without legal recourse.

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In retaliation, a Chicago militia storms the occupiers in October of 2023, killing and kidnapping hundreds of civilians. The occupiers decide the appropriate response is to level virtually the entire city of Chicago.

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Using state-of-the-art weaponry and precise targeting technology, the occupiers launch a massive campaign to punish Chicago's women and children, killing and maiming them by the tens of thousands. They call this massacre "self-defense."

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Week after week, the occupiers slaughter Chicagoans, dropping thousands of tons of US-made bombs on Chicago's residential buildings, hospitals, shelters, and schools. Mass graves can barely contain all the bodies.

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The US President and his cohorts provide the occupiers with bunker-buster bombs and thousands of other weapons and artillery shells, justifying these war crimes by claiming the occupiers have a right to level Chicago in "self-defense."

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I could keep going with the analogy, but I'd really like to know what the response would be if we were watching the same carnage in a Western city.