Look at the title of the thread and look where you have ended up. Stick to the topic of current day events and thats the genocide of the Palestinians. The daily rape by Israeli soldiers - the daily bombardment of innocent schools and hospitals - the collective punishment and war crimes being committed. Now be a good boy and stick to the topic
I wouldn't use the term collective punishment.
It's a cleaver ploy and psychological trick. Similar to "Israel needs to use proportionate force". Punishment denotes that Palestinians as the occupied have done something wrong and some of them need to be punished. It is completely devoid of a trauma informed approach or the viewpoint of a victim.
Proportionate force means that Israel as the occupier has a right to use force on the occupied, but not too much force.
Both terms, collective punishment and proportionate response go hand in hand. When you take a step back, they make no sense.
Let's look at a scenario. Aliens invade earth, and kill / cleanse the civilian populations to make their own settlements. They do this because their holy book has promised them earth.
Humans fight back. Alieans then attack them.
Aliens are then told, by the intergalactic league of civilizations:
- Guys, please be proportionate. Thanks.
- don't use collective punishment on the humans, not all of them are fighting you. Just kill their fighting aged males. Think you.
It happens to me too ... the way they've spun the 6 hostages deaths is amazing. Showing pictures of the pretty ladies that have died, obviously killed by Israeli themselves, and then I contrast the effects of that narrative vs the 150,000 they've butchered. We all need to take a step back sometimes.