Slaughter is not self-defense, Self-defense is not slaughtering people!

Slaughter is not self-defense: The assault on Gaza and the corruption of language

By David Lloyd
The twisted, vicious moralizing used to justify Israel's assault is cloaked in the song of self-defense, a term frequently heard in the United States and seconded by all the former colonial and settler colonial powers that Europe spawned. For if colonial expansion and military intervention against subjugated populations were not named defense, how could the United States continue to slaughter whole Pakistani or Yemeni families with drone attacks?
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