Turkey joins South Africa's genocide case against Israel at ICJ.

It appears when it comes to war-crimes every country will speak out against them.

Except if they committed them, then it was nuanced self-defense.

I know this! I have seen it before! Westerners call it "whataboutism".

Who? When no one else learns the lesson why should Turkey be singled out for going a step further and shrugging the whole thing off? Admitting to crimes does zero good if you continue committing them and aiding others in doing so while showing no remorse for new acts.

Germany which genocided Jews now defends the rights of a subset of extremists (though they're not a subset in the occupation zone, the majority there are unhinged racists according to opinion polls) to genocide others.

One of them is doing the right thing now about this though for transparently insincere and politically expedient domestic political reasons while the other is doubling down on criminalizing support for victims of an illegal occupation, genocide, and state.

Turkey's denial cannot change what happened bad as it is.

And clearly Germany's admission that they did commit genocide hasn't made them a better country for it as they're happy to enable it again (and still refuse to pay reparations to other non-Jewish victims).

So admitting to genocide is clearly not a given sign that a country is good or will help stop one in future or has learned any lessons at all.

In other words things are complex. This is good thing done for likely cynical reasons but it's still good. Even if it likely won't impact the situation on the ground immediately it could lay part of the groundwork for eventually causing "israel" to fall as apartheid South Africa did.

That's why they know so much about genocide