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I am free to criticize actions without concern for hypocrisy, regardless of what happened before I was born.
Actually, no you are not.
You are free to criticize anything you want BUT it is equally free for others to point out the hypocrisy being committed in doing so if it exists, and in this case it would.
Do you think Germans can't criticize genocide?
Of course that can. Anyone can. Others are free to point out that it might not be prudent.
And, as I pointed out, the metrics do not support and argument of genocide in the case of Gaza. The death total is less than 1% of the population. Gazian Arabs are not going to cease to be from that kind of death rate. That doesn't make it less unfortunate. It simply means genocide isn't what that is. What it is, is war.
What the US did in Dresden should be universally criticized, same for dropping the atomic bombs.
As I stated, an argument can readily be made that the deaths that did occur vastly reduced that deaths that might have occurred had not either of them taken place.
If you know and understand history, you know and understand that.