What this reveals is the base American instinct: never wanting to see their own violence, especially when itโs against their own. Thereโs a sanctity preserved for the (white) American body.
This type of violence is always presented as an aberration (โwhat have we become?โ) versus the inevitability of a culture that partakes in unmitigated violence inside and outside its borders that has rendered it necessary to dispose of any human life for oneโs own gains.
No one deserves to be shot brutally in public, sliced open by the bullet of a cowardly sniper.
Hence, I condemn in the strongest terms the targeted assassination of at least 1500 Palestinians by snipers - many of whom were women and children collecting food - by the IDF cowards in Gaza.
And I condemn in the strongest terms the shooting of over 1000 Palestinians living in the West Bank in 'clashes' instigated by Isareli forces.
And I also condemn in the strongest terms the bombing and intentional killing of over 70,000 civilians in Gaza by the genocidal regime of Netanyahu.
Anyone who justified or mocked those deaths deserves no sympathy and is no hero - even as the same verdict above holds true for them as well.
Dying by violence does not cleanse a legacy of justifying violence.