Israel supporters look for rationalization in statements made by Israel's ambassador to the UK

On the British radio station LBC's program ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQtqvSYjMIc ) broadcast on the 4th , Ambassador Hotoberg was asked by the host about the state of Gaza after the war. ``After Japan lost the war to the United States and went through the occupation, the educational system changed fundamentally.Tokyo and modern Japan have become a great country,'' he said, referring to the fact that the city was turned into a burnt-out ruin due to air raids by the US military. Destroying buildings is not the problem. Ideology is the problem. We have to fight ideologies (like Hamas)." This comment was taken up by Japanese literature scholar Robert Campbell on Voices of condemnation spread. In response to this situation, an account that has been spreading false rumors pro-Israel for some time tried to justify it by picking up only part of Ambassador Hotoberg's statement. For example: Posted by Kiyomasa Akashi ``I don't see any problem with your reply, citing the post-war reconstruction of Tokyo and saying that even though Gaza is almost in ruins, it depends on your ideology.In fact, this is a valid point.Moreover, this person ( The ambassador did not say what Mr. Campbell said.'' (Kiyomasa Akashi @AkashiKiyomasa ) Post by Φιλíα⊿ "Is this an insult to Japan? Isn't it the highest praise and respect?" (Φιλíα⊿・@ GruessGott2018 ) Posted by Tatsuhiro Iwamoto “I think Ambassador Hotoberg is making this statement out of respect for the Japanese people who have achieved post-war reconstruction.” (Tatsuhiro Iwamoto @tatsuhiro_iwamo ) Posted by buvery ``I saw the original video, and I didn't say anything like that. The destruction of Gaza is a result of the need to destroy Hamas' terrorist tunnels, and I do not link it to the Tokyo air raids.'' buvery・@buvery） Posted by Tsutomu Ben Okubo "I listened to it and re-read it many times, but it's not something I would criticize. I wonder if those who agree with Robert listen to the original video to the end and understand the meaning before agreeing with him." (Tsutomu Ben Okubo・@bengchang ) Posted by Yoshio Terashima ``The Israeli ambassador to the UK's remarks have been criticized for being cut out, but if you listen carefully, it seems that he was expressing respect for Japan's postwar recovery.'' (Yoshio Terajima, @ qQUzgOZfF2mtebw ) There are some points that they all don't touch on. The video above is about 3 minutes long, from the beginning until the ambassador mentions Tokyo. At the beginning, the host said, ``You say you're trying to be as targeted as possible, but what we're seeing is not individual homes and offices being destroyed, but entire streets being destroyed. When asked, Ambassador Hotoberg replied, ``The first truth I want to tell you is that Gaza is an underground tunnel city.'' So, to get there, we need to destroy those areas...What we understand is that every school, every mosque, every second house has access to the tunnel. ” he said. No one hears this statement and assumes that the ambassador does not approve of indiscriminate attacks. That's why the host immediately asked, ``Are you saying we're going to destroy everything in Gaza?'' and the ambassador went so far as to say, ``What other options are there?'' Afterwards, the host continued to argue, ``From the image, you can see that a building has been destroyed. This is not a targeted attack that has been analyzed. The entire street is being targeted.'' Ambassador Hotoberg repeats, ``That's because the entire street is connected to an underground tunnel city.'' The host said, ``The logical answer is to destroy the entire Gaza Strip. There are 2.2 million people living in Gaza, and they are forced to migrate to some areas. How long will this last?'' ?This is a huge humanitarian crisis.'' This is where Ambassador Hotoberg brings up the example of Tokyo. As is clear from the above, Ambassador Hotoberg recognizes that Israel's current attacks on Gaza are indiscriminate attacks, and he is justifying them. That's why I used the Tokyo air raids as an example, which were similar indiscriminate attacks. The logic is consistent in Hotoberg's head. It was precisely because Mr. Campbell heard that logic accurately that he criticized them, saying, ``Don't cite the Tokyo air raids and reconstruction as a genocide.'' It's the Israel supporters who are cutting his remarks, not Mr. Campbell. They cannot touch on the first part of the ambassador's statement, where he publicly declared the attack on Gaza an indiscriminate attack. This is because, up until now, Israel has repeatedly insisted that ``Israel only targets Hamas.'' From a pro-Israel standpoint, they could have criticized Ambassador Hotoberg's recognition and pointed out the example of the Tokyo air raids as inappropriate, but they did not do so, and instead pointed to They took this into account and called it ``respect for Japan.'' Some of them, unable to understand English on their own, contacted people like Mr. Akashi and assumed they understood what was cut out at face value. I don't know the rationale behind their thinking, whether they feared that Mr. Campbell's post would strengthen anti-Israel public opinion in Japan, or whether they prioritized consistency between the ambassador's statements and their own positions up until now. It just exposed the subservient side of supporting Israel, even turning a blind eye to obvious contradictions.