alt Hacker News> But we weren't trying to wage war against the entire civilian populations as revenge.
Yes you were. Gaza is just another Fallujah. Just another Raqqa. Just another Mosul.
Your nation had multiple states in its cross-hairs after 9/11 and every single one of them was destroyed, somehow.
The “War on Terror” is a racist war, and ‘terrorist’ is just the era’s n-word, which is a word that dyed in the wool racists can’t use openly any more so they invented a new one.
The USA has been destroying states its ruling, racist elite deem inferior for decades. Israel is just following the precedent set by its partner in crime.
Here's a line graph of the HDI of Iraq and Palestine:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/human-development-index?t...
For Iraq, you can see a small dip for the 2003 invasion, which quickly recovers and in subsequent years grows above its pre-invasion value. Far from being "destroyed", Iraq is now doing better than ever.
For Palestine, the dip is about 3x larger.