Western expressions of "dismay" and "grave concern" at Palestinian death while proclaiming the "right" of the brutal colonial occupier to commit mass murder, and claiming that as "moral clarity", are reminiscent of the worst justifications for racist colonial violence in Africa.
https://twitter.com/Jerusalem_Post/status/1392593342026944514
Here too, colonial land grabbers claimed the right to terrorise, brutalize, torture and murder the natives, whose land they were stealing, under the rubric of "self defense". Their "moral clarity" justified the expulsion and confinement of entire populations, even genocide.
Today in Gaza, the same "moral clarity" justifies as "self defense" attacks on a refugee population by the colonial power that took their land, blockades them in an open air prison, visits death and daily indignities on them, and then claims the right to do so in peace and quiet.
Joe Biden and the rest of the West are no different from Donald Trump, whose only said loudly the quiet part. For all their talk of rights and humanity, their idea of "moral clarity" is to justify dropping bombs on kids so long as it is not their own or their friends' kids.
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