Just so everyone is clear on the concept, genocide is not self defense. If someone attacks your person and you defend yourself, that is self defense. If someone invades your home and you use force to remove them from your home, that is self defense.
Although that seems pretty simple and straightforward, many people like to repeat arguments that fail to grasp this simple concept. If you and your friends go into a house, kick out the residents, and then start firing at the legal owners when they try to reenter, that is NOT self defense. If you start throwing bombs over the fence at your neighbor, that is NOT self defense. If you just up and build a new fence halfway through your neighbor's yard while they are away at work, you can expect them to tear it down when they come home at the end of the day. Attacking them for doing so is NOT self defense.
Although I expect the U.S. and Israeli governments to spout this malarkey, please don't repeat it ... it's an insult to the intelligence of us all. When Israel attacks infrastructure and ambulances, that is not to cut off supply lines but to terrorize a population. Israel has infamous special ops that have openly carried out assassinations, so why are we to believe that mass barbarism is acceptable? When an entire region of people, to the tune of millions, is displaced from their homes out of fear for their lives, the invading army responsible is the terrorist organization. Hezbollah, as backward as they are, are a result of Israeli policy against the Lebanese population ... to condemn them, you must first condemn the nation and system that brought them into existence.
If a man takes a woman prisoner and keeps her locked in a room, raping her every day and starving her half to death, what would you think? If that woman, using the last bit of her strength, kicks the man in the balls, is that fighting dirty? When he then beats her unconscious, is he acting in self defense?
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