they did not have the right to violate international law and wage an all-out war of enormous destruction against the entire Palestinian people – in what experts have correctly concluded is a genocide.
This should have been the opening. Bernie shouldn’t have to spend 3 paragraphs proving his bona fides; preemptively defend vacuous accusations of bigotry; and acknowledge that Hamas are assholes, just to begin to list Israel’s crimes.
After that opening, Bernie really cooks. I just feel like preemptive apologetics cedes too much ground to bad-faith actors.
This should have been the opening. Bernie shouldn’t have to spend 3 paragraphs proving his bona fides; preemptively defend vacuous accusations of bigotry; and acknowledge that Hamas are assholes, just to begin to list Israel’s crimes.
After that opening, Bernie really cooks. I just feel like preemptive apologetics cedes too much ground to bad-faith actors.
He can write it however he wants. You can write your own version that skips whatever you don’t like.