Quote Originally Posted by EyeKhan View Post
A. I think you're right about this thread. I don't see Hamas or Israel as a good guy in this current blood bath. I don't know how anyone can. And really, it's not Israel vs. Hamas, its Israel vs. Iran, isn't it? And Iran is apparently happy to use up the Palestinian and Lebanese civilians in opposing and striking at Israel. That's very bad, IMO. As bad as Israel shrugging at genocide level activity in Gaza.

B. My general impression of the characters in world war 2:
-Nazis - very very bad
-Japanese - very bad for their occupied territories and captured prisoners but not Nazi bad
-Soviets - very bad, but the enemy of my enemy...
-Brits - bad for their colonized peoples for sure, but not so bad overall
-Americans - generally good as relates to the conduct of the war. Yeah, we goaded the Japs to attack, but they were doing lots of bad shit in Asia and a major power so expansionist/ militaristic is best put down. And yeah, we probably didn't need to nuke them, and fire bombing the majority of civilian population centers in Japan was bad, but after the war we rebuilt Japan into an economic powerhouse. And we saved Europe from Soviet domination and helped free-Europe rebuild, right? That's pretty good, even acknowledging the self-interest behind it.

How much of this is Victors writing?
You seriously underestimate how bad the Japanese were. And may I point out that exactly they managed to write a lot of their history as we perceive it in the West despite being the losers?