{"id":54476,"date":"2025-08-09T05:42:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=54476"},"modified":"2025-08-09T05:46:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T13:46:50","slug":"huckabee-cites-allied-bombing-of-dresden-to-defend-israels-gaza-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/09\/huckabee-cites-allied-bombing-of-dresden-to-defend-israels-gaza-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"Huckabee Cites Allied Bombing of Dresden To Defend Israel&#8217;s Gaza Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid growing international condemnation of Israel&#8217;s annihilation and starvation of Gaza \u2013 including from staunch ally Britain\u2014U.S. Ambassador to <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/israel\">Israel<\/a> Mike Huckabee on Friday attempted to defend the genocidal assault on <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/tag\/gaza\">Gaza<\/a> by invoking one of the most notorious Allied atrocities of World War II.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6376689221112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Appearing<\/a> on <em>Fox News<\/em>&#8216; &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends,&#8221; Huckabee singled out the United Kingdom after Prime Minister Keir Starmer <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-keir-starmer-israel-gaza-city-netanyahu-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criticized<\/a> Israel&#8217;s <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/trump-netanyahu-gaza-occupation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S.-backed plan<\/a> to fully occupy Gaza and ethnically cleanse <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/08\/israel-cabinet-approves-netanyahu-gaza-city-takeover-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">approximately 1 million Palestinians<\/a> from parts of the embattled coastal enclave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They never get credit for the things they do to try to prevent civilian loss of life,&#8221; Huckabee said of Israel, whose 22-month assault and siege of Gaza has left at least 226,600 Palestinians dead, wounded, or missing amid <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/26\/world\/middleeast\/israel-hamas-gaza-bombing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">loosened rules of engagement<\/a> effectively allowing an unlimited number of civilians to be killed while targeting a single Hamas member, no matter how low-ranking.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lvvamtox3x23\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreiezwzksmgl73alec3fs5h4aowclbqdgnlgio6hj5dceq7gdzdjerq\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Mike Huckabee on genocide accusations against Israel: &#34;Just remember Dresden. Over 25,000 civilians were killed in that bombing alone, and it wasn&#39;t food that the British were sending in to Germany.&#34;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc?ref_src=embed\">Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3lvvamtox3x23?ref_src=embed\">2025-08-08T12:23:52.542Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have got the Brits out there complaining about humanitarian aid and the fact that they don&#8217;t like the way Israel is prosecuting the war,&#8221; Huckabee continued. &#8220;I would remind the British to go back and look at their own history. At the end of World War II they weren&#8217;t dropping food into Germany, they were dropping massive bombs. Just remember Dresden \u2013 over 25,000 civilians were killed in that bombing alone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>U.S. and British warplanes <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2020\/02\/10\/beasts-and-bombings-reflecting-dresden-february-1945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indiscriminately bombed<\/a> Dresden with munitions including 4,000-pound &#8220;blockbusters&#8221; and incendiary explosives over two days in February 1945. The heat generated by the inferno melted human flesh, turning many victims into piles of goop. Men, women, children; the sick and the elderly; refugees and Allied prisoners of war \u2013 even the animals in the city zoo\u2014were incinerated together.<\/p>\n<p>Acclaimed author Kurt Vonnegut \u2013 an American POW imprisoned in Dresden at the time, whose seminal novel <em>Slaughterhouse-Five<\/em> was inspired by the firebombing \u2013 later described the attack as &#8220;carnage unfathomable.&#8221; After viewing images of the bombing, then-British Prime Minister Winston Churchill asked: &#8220;Are we beasts? Are we taking this too far?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the old adage posits, &#8220;history is written by the victors,&#8221; and no Allied officials were ever held accountable for atrocities committed against their Axis enemies. However, after the war, the Nuremberg trials, Fourth Geneva Convention, and Genocide Convention sought to ensure that horrors like Nazi and Japanese war crimes and what the British described as the &#8220;terror bombing&#8221; of Germany never happened again.<\/p>\n<p>Huckabee&#8217;s comments drew stinging rebuke on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So Mike Huckabee&#8217;s defense of mass civilian death is&#8230; referencing more mass civilian death?&#8221; one U.S. military veteran <a class=\"rm-stats-tracked\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/odinikaeze\/status\/1953798674011603396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Justifying today&#8217;s atrocities by pointing to yesterday&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t make it moral. It makes it monstrous,&#8221; he added. &#8220;In fact, the lesson of Dresden should be never again, not &#8216;do it again.&#8217; But here we have a U.S. diplomat cosplaying a foreign country&#8217;s mouthpiece for atrocities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Brett Wilkins is is staff writer for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/\">Common Dreams<\/a>. Based in San Francisco, his work covers issues of social justice, human rights and war and peace. This originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/\">CommonDreams<\/a> and is reprinted with the author\u2019s permissio<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid growing international condemnation of Israel&#8217;s annihilation and starvation of Gaza \u2013 including from staunch ally Britain\u2014U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee on Friday attempted to defend the genocidal assault on Gaza by invoking one of the most notorious Allied atrocities of World War II. 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