If you are expecting to read my usual Left Coast column, I tell you now that you will be disappointed. I write, today, from a place of horror—about the massacre unleashed against civilians in Israel this past week, and about the morally cretinous bloodlust reaction some who fashion themselves as being on the “left” seem to have experienced in its aftermath, but also in despair at the ghastly collective punishments being unleashed from the air on Gaza residents by Netanyahu’s far-right government and the Israeli military.
The Nazis are also responsible for putting their citizens in harm’s way by forcing people resist or retaliate out of rage.
Yeah, well if I was a Soviet soldier who’d had his family starved to death for generalplan ost and then liberated a death camp I would struggle to not hold every adult German personally culpable.
Shocking that they had as much appetite for mercy as they did. And I’m glad they did, but I still wonder how they softened their hearts.