A couple strikes per month [1] in response to Syrian missile batteries shooting down Israeli planes is not particularly comparable with threatening to wipe a country off the map. Most of these aren't even direct attacks, Iranians are killed in the crossfire because they're supporting proxy fighters in Syria.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Israel_conflict_d...

You cannot seriously not add attacks on Palestinians. It would be a country too if it weren't occupied and crushed completely. More and more acknowledge this every year.

Then there's all the hits on people by Mossad.

As do China, Russia, and NATO. Why single out Israel?

America does not pay for China and Russia's bombs, at the very least; but something tells me you already knew that.

America bombed the crap out of many countries throughout history. I mean wtf was Vietnam all about? Iraq didn't look that good either.

Cool, yeah, more bad stuff. Doesn't cancel out what I was talking about at all - this is just a standard "whataboutism". I'd like to see an end to all bombing everywhere. It's easier as a Canadian to hold this perspective, of course; I don't have to condone or defend the past evils of America at all.

Whataboutism has its merit in this instance. If the U.S wants to show its moral superioriry it needs to actually try becoming morally superior. Which I am not sure it is. Otherwise it reeks of hypocrisy and people rightly suspects most Americans do not care about China's morals at all but about losing their hegemony to China. So its easy to become a cynic when seeing these debates.

So the issue is not the people suffering, but rather who's paying. Got it.