I’ve noticed people say, every time they see Israel commit a war crime such as when they dropped a missile in qatar or forced tons of people to strip down and gathered them in groups to stay that way, that ‘well we did it too, are you saying we’re also committing war crimes?’/‘well we did it too, we shouldn’t be upset because that would be hypocrisy’.

I know the immediate response would be ‘yes, America commits tons of war crimes’, but honestly I feel like they’re somewhat baiting for that response because they know people will just shut their brains off if you accuse our government of war crimes; instead the appropriate response (and like…IN THE FIRST PLACE, those former arguments entirely skip the point) should be ‘if a different country attacked us in the same way for the same purpose, would you defend them like you did Israel?’

I saw a video of a guy defending Israel attacking qatar with ‘well they didn’t attack qatar, they dropped a missile on a target who was responsible for crimes against them and a few civilians happened to be killed or injured; we’ve done that too you know!’

America harbors TONS of people who are responsible for crimes against other countries, are you entirely sure you want to tell those countries that these methods are valid? Among the people America harbors are the MEK for example, a terrorist organization that committed terror attacks in Iran. If the response then is that the MEK are not registered as a terror organization in America, then Hamas may very well not be registered as a terror organization in qatar either. Would we take the same stance if other countries behaved the same way with us?

International law isn’t difficult, it’s actually very intuitive if you even cared to think about it for a hot minute!

There are normal and valid anti-hypocrisy arguments to make, but to use the argument ‘well WE did it too you know!’ is one heck of a bizarre misunderstanding of the assignment.