2mo ago

Man accused of killing 2 Israeli Embassy staffers in DC charged with murder of foreign officials

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Court papers say suspect in embassy killings declared, 'I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza'

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2mo ago

2 staff members of Israeli Embassy killed in shooting near Jewish museum in DC

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2mo ago

2 staff members of Israeli Embassy killed in shooting near Jewish museum in DC

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2mo ago

2 staff members of Israeli embassy killed in shooting near Jewish museum in DC, Noem says

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- Sorry. Not sure what you mean by this, can you break it down for me?
  
  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.
  
  It means who gives a fuck if two random Germans died in 1941. Focus on the concentration camps instead.
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.
- Were they shot because they were Jewish, or because they were Israeli? There is a difference, but equating the two as the same thing is part of why Israel is getting away with genocide.
  I completely agree that killing them achieves nothing for Palestine. I also think killing them, even if it could is abhorrent as they are not combatants.
  
  Netanyahu isn’t a combatant, would you be offended if someone was to target him?
  Not every target has to be a “combatant” to be involved in killing you.
- When you phrase it like that it sounds like Netanyahu planned it 🥲
- 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.
This is a horrible crime but Israel never wastes a good crisis.
- It was probably a false flag.
  It wouldn't surprise me if Israel would stoop that low.
  
  I mean Israel has done this, and also failed to do it one time:
  On 10th October, 2001, Israelis attempted to bomb the Mexican Legislative Assembly and blame it on Pakistan. They had false Pakistani passports but were caught.
  More likely though this is not the case as full false flags happen when something much larger is at stake. Israel is sitting decently comfortably right now, even with Europe suddenly switching sides (which is more likely to do with Trump's crappy foreign policy).
  There's always a higher chance of intentional neglect, like Israel's "failure" to spot Hamas's original invasion plans because they wanted a reason for escalation. It's entirely possible they were aware of a threat but chose not to act.
  Then again with how fast the media is all over this, who knows.
  
  That's too much credit in my opinion. This is bound to happen statically. Israel just had to wait and capitalize on it. It's amazing it took this long. We didn't seem to care when a landlord killed a Palestinian child who was his tenant. They didn't seem to care when a Zionist shot two Arab Jews that they mistook for Palestinians.
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.
- 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.
Sounds like diplomatic immunity...

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