I got a lot of comments all saying the same thing so it's hard to know what to reply to. For posterity I'll expand on my meaning here. I live in the US. One of our biggest points of national pride here is our status as "back to back world war champs" and tied up in that pride is the creation of Israel in its modern form. As a country built around a military/industrial complex trust them enough to sell them all our most advanced weapons, which is good for business obviously. We think of Jewish people sharing our religious beliefs much more readily than we think the same of the followers of Islam.
Most importantly as a nation we're guilty of pretty much all the same crimes as they are. We built our country on land that we took from indigenous people. After Sept 11 we went collectively ballistic and did wanton violence. Hell I just recently read that we used artillery to strike a populated city in a grid pattern. Boom! Morals my fucking ass. And because the soldiers firing those howitzers fired all day every day, they all basically killed themselves even if they are still technically alive because we now understand that that much repeated shockwave trauma turns your brain to jelly, literally, until you see ghosts, do some homicides, or kill yourself. Mmmmmmhm yes sir, moral leaders of the free world right here.
Most importantly as a nation we're guilty of pretty much all the same crimes as they are. We built our country on land that we took from indigenous people. After Sept 11 we went collectively ballistic and did wanton violence. Hell I just recently read that we used artillery to strike a populated city in a grid pattern. Boom! Morals my fucking ass. And because the soldiers firing those howitzers fired all day every day, they all basically killed themselves even if they are still technically alive because we now understand that that much repeated shockwave trauma turns your brain to jelly, literally, until you see ghosts, do some homicides, or kill yourself. Mmmmmmhm yes sir, moral leaders of the free world right here.