• LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee
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        1 month ago

        Sincerely, what else could be meant by what they said?

        When a child is murdered in Gaza those advocating for Palestinians point to it as a reason to end the bloodshed. Hundreds of children were murdered by Israel just this week. No one in the media has spoken there names or talked about their hopes and dreams.

        When an Israeli diplomat is murdered those advocating for Israel use it as a reason why they need to continue to murder said children. The diplomat is treated like a human. Their names are known. The media tells us the sad story of their hopes and dreams that were stolen from them.

        Palestinians are not treated as humans. Their deaths are statistics. Israeli deaths are treated as tragedies.

        It’s a reason why this genocide continues. You have to dehumanize a population to the masses. And Israeli has succeeded in dehumanizing Palestinians, at least to the Western world.

        The deaths of their own diplomats are simply tools to continue to justify their genocide. They don’t care about their diplomats anymore than they do their hostages in Gaza.

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            1 month ago

            Sorry. I’ve been advocating for Palestine since I first learned about the conflict truly as a young kid in 2015: as an ignorant college kid that visited my first major city of Chicago on an internship. Spoke with a Palestinian women and gave her a nod and an “ok” as she desperately tried to connect with me on what was being done to her family. She is was just holding a sign alone as I passed through the city. I was an ignorant idiot then. But even though I treated her like a random panhandler, what she said still stuck.

            I’ll never know exactly what she said to me. But I know it’s when I started to care. I have definitely become cynical and frustrated, and tired since that time. But, I do really appreciate your reply.

            I just only hope my own frustration or “snark” is heard in the same way.

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    1 month ago

    Shooting two Jewish rando’s in the US will accomplish nothing for Gaza. It casts Palestinians in a negative light, bolsters Israeli propaganda and distracts Americans from Gaza’s plight.

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      I bet the administration will label it far left terrorism and will use it to stamp out opposition. The shooter’s loose connection to Democratic Socialist party will be a propaganda piece to label all democrats terrorists.

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    1 month ago

    I guess he figured if any pro-Palestinian speech was deemed terrorism, he might as well become a terrorist. I just don’t know why people like this target low-level staffers instead of the individuals most responsible, other than ease of access I guess.

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      1 month ago

      People that get to this stage aren’t often thinking clearly. They are looking for place to release the anger and pain.

      It’s why Luigi was such a unique case of vigilante justice. He was actually thinking clearly, and agree with him or not, he hit a target that most of the country thought “well, yeah that was bound to happen eventually”.

      Allegedly obviously. Luigi allegedly did this. I still think they got the wrong guy.