Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) called some of his colleagues’ quickness to blame Israel for the hospital blast in Gaza “disturbing” in a statement Wednesday.

“It’s truly disturbing that Members of Congress rushed to blame Israel for the hospital tragedy in Gaza,” Fetterman said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

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    1 year ago

    Actually the term Fog of War describes a basic misunderstanding of events in war.

    War has rules and killing civilians is against the rules. Doing so to freighten living populations is terrorism.

    Hope this helps.

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      1 year ago

      I know what it means. What I’m saying is that concept is then used as a justification for violence against civilian populations by the dominant force in a conflict.

      The messaging around that violence is what matters in the context of your initial statement, and the dominant force in a conflict NEVER admits that what they are doing is also very much “terrorism”, and usually on a much larger scale.