• CylonBunny@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    We don’t get many declarations of war these days. Usually they are just special military actions, or security operations, or something like that. What makes this different?

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      1 year ago

      Israel is constantly catastrophizing their situation to win sympathy and demonize their enemy. Usually they try to avoid this kind of language because, being the only ones with an organized military, it would be a bad look to be at war with a bunch of refugees. But since they’ve been attacked they’re doing everything they can to paint that attack in the most bombastic terms possible 1) to win sympathy and 2) to justify the military devastation they are about to unleash on a civilian population.