Japan Has “Zero Civilians.” And so is Gaza!

Despite the appalling morality of Dresden and Hiroshima, the Israeli government and its mouthpieces invoked these barbaric attacks to guilt-trip Western audiences

Nour Alhakk
Lessons from History

(left) A father searching for a doctor for his baby in Nagasaki. (Right) A mother holding her trembling baby after being hit by Israeli shells in Gaza.

During World War II, the German city of Dresden suffered a catastrophic air raid in February 1945. The bombing by British and U.S. forces created a devastating firestorm that consumed the city.

As reported by the BBC, the death toll is estimated to be between 22,700 and 25,000, with the majority being civilians.

Five months later, the U.S. Army Air Force dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

In Hiroshima, the immediate death toll was around 140,000, and thousands more suffered from radiation-related illnesses. Generations later, survivors and their descendants still bear physical and psychological scars.

Hiroshima is a military base, not a city!

The attacks were rationalized alongside a pervasive dehumanization of the enemy.

Almost as soon as the bombs had dropped, however, attempts began to justify the unjustifiable.

On 9 August, the day of the Nagasaki bombing, the US president

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Nour Alhakk
Lessons from History

An avid writer with invaluable knowledge in religion, history, and politics.