A recommended read A. Dirk Moses’ The Problems of Genocide is “an authoritative account of how the concept of genocide came to exclude many forms of mass killing. Western governments were keen to develop a legal definition of the crime that absolved them of their own violent acts, such as the system of lynching and Jim Crow laws in the southern United States and the suppression of colonial rebellions in South Asia, Moses argued. The result was a law that exceptionalized genocide, affixing its threshold of transgression to the events of the Holocaust.” And Israel is considered Western by these Western powers; it is their creation and ‘a democracy’ in a sea of autocracy needs supporting. “‘As long as they can point to any other discernible goal — to subjugate, dispossess, or enslave, or even to lash out and take revenge [add ‘self-defence and ‘reprisal’]— states have a potential alibi against the charge of genocide’, wrote the legal scholar Darryl Li in Dissent , citing ...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51