For last 2 days we are witnessing French operation against Islamic terrorists in Mali. Very few is being said in mainstream European media and I don't know enough about Mali to express publicly my views yet few things are striking!
European media labelled the operation "anti-terrorist" and pointed at "Islamic extremists".
At least 100 people were killed so far and we may suppose some just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I don't recall ANY rockets falling from Mali on French territory and citizens, do you?
Citizens of Mali are possibly the most suffering due to terrorist groups based in Mali.
No big cry about "French war crimes" was delivered so far.
It brings to memories recent operation Pillars of Fire by Israeli forces.
12,000 rockets were launched from Gaza onto Israeli territory aimed at Israeli citizens (Jews or Arabs likewise).
During operation IDF made ALL the effort to warn people who could be in the wrong place at the wrong time and considering the Hamas's habit of hiding in schools, hospitals, mosques, kindergartens and alike there were very few casualties who had just bad luck.
Hamas is targeting Israelis but at the same time terrorizing Palestinians. Nobody on the West cares.
All the European media were crying about war crimes and war on innocent by Israel (never mentioning terrorism, rockets, calling for genocide etc., or at very few times).
Reading European newspapers (and I made an effort to check many from at least 4 countries) one gets predominant feeling that:
- Europe has right to decide who is right and who is wrong, nobody else does (Europe meaning European leftists, of course, the rest should believe what they are told),
- it also has right to safety, others don't,
- it leads "right wars" (Falklands being example) unless it is made to go to war by the USA (and than it's bad), but its citizens should have right to live in peace, others not necessary,
- there are double or even triple standards for different peoples: Israelis just shouldn't defend themselves as it "causes the war" "threatens peace" and "kills warriors for peace". Those same warriors transferred to Syria are better not talked bout at all (or as little as possible) and transferred to Mali are terrorists.
Well.... I am just sick of those triple standards and people trying to tell me what I should think or what the truth is (even if I happen to know it isn't so). Just like Sartre supporting Stalin or French leftists supporting Pol Pot. Death and terror were OK, collateral damage, under the condition that they were for other people.
Well, most of us are "other people" for those claiming they know the only truth.
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