• DoneItDuncan@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    At some point though, surely humanity and justice have to take precedence over politicking - I don’t think the need to tiptoe around issues like that is a good enough reason for excusing the collective punishment of 2 million people.

    • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I’m not vouching for his whole worldview on this, just pointing out that he didn’t say the sieging and resource denial is okay.

      • DoneItDuncan@feddit.uk
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        1 year ago

        I think he kinda did tbh.

        I think the best you can say he didn’t do it on purpose. He clearly had a soundbite (‘Isreal has a right to defend itself within international law’), but maybe he didn’t actually listen to the question before using it?

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          1 year ago

          It was certainly a sound bite. But he only clarified “within international law” after the line of questioning became about the siege and resource denial, so he did actively change/update the sound bite to address that specific thing.

          He did somewhat seem on auto pilot with it after hearing the question, so I could believe he might choose to phrase it less poorly given a second chance, but It’s pretty presumptuous.

    • peg@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Not when you’re a Blairite. Nothing better than war and dead Muslims.