Israel-Hamas war, Gaza genocide

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JRPGfan said:

The world gone crazy....

Russian invadeing Ukraine:
400k+ causilites on russian side (military that arnt able bodied anymore to fight) (~180,000 deaths) and 190k+ casulties on ukrines side (~80k deaths). In ukrine thers been over 30,000 civilian deaths as well.

Then theres this..... the Israel hamas war... again, alot of civilian deaths (over 30k as well).

Can we just all chill out?
I miss the 90's, they seemed so much more peacefull.

Perception of peace is largely tied to how important the various wars are deemed by Europeans and the same holds true for Americans. There are ongoing wars all the time - I think the number of days recorded without active fighting in a war on this planet since 1945 is around 10 (in words: ten) - but us Europeans don't care about Africans and Asians. But we do care about Europe, hence why Ukraine continues to be a persistent topic on the news. And we care about Israel as the only Asian country we give a damn about as a consequence of collective guilt that the holocaust was allowed to happen.

A feeling of guilt that is apparently so strong that it even makes us willing to support the far-right Israelis who commit a genocide in Gaza right now. This is so messed up, because the lesson learned from the holocaust should be that we do not stand by and watch how something like it happens again.

As for the 1990s, it was the time of the civil war in Yugoslavia where also a genocide was committed (much smaller scale than Gaza though). So... selective memory at work here, if even something that happened in Europe is forgotten.