• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Man if every one in the world judged every American based on what one crazy preacher said we’d be in some trouble.

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      8 months ago

      Well, the prime minister, the finance minister and the head of defense all have said similar things over there in Israel. At some point you have to believe that what they are saying and their actions are speaking for themselves and their words and actions are saying “no one is innocent and even if they were we are still going to kill them all so we can get the land.”

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        8 months ago

        I mean, it’s kinda like judging America based on Pat Robertson, the Westboro Baptist Church, Steve Bannon, Steve Miller, and Trump.

        Yes, we should beleive people like Trump when they say how awful they are. The fact that he was elected and is the presumptive Republican nominee says a lot about the American right, right now. But it definitely doesn’t mean that Americans in general are awful people.

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          8 months ago

          Are these people:

          Pat Robertson, the Westboro Baptist Church, Steve Bannon, Steve Miller, and Trump.

          Currently in charge?

          Because Ben Gvir, Smotrich, and Bibi Netanyahu are all literally in charge of the country commiting genocide right now.

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            8 months ago

            What’s the purpose of that “currently”? Because if you meant that what’s in the past is less real, it’s not. Just removed from us by one coordinate.

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              8 months ago

              It means there was a majority of people who decided these people shouldn’t be in charge after witnessing what they did when they were in charge?

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, although if the American state were sponsoring said crazy preacher it would be an issue. The Rabbi and his Yashiva are sponsored by the Israeli government as the article makes clear.

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        8 months ago

        I don’t know if you haven’t been paying attention to Mike Johnson and some of the Republicans lately but well…

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      8 months ago

      In what way aren’t the crazy preachers representative of a massive segment of the population here?

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      I never understood why some people would say it was anti semitic to criticize Israel in certain ways, like people say the BDS movement is racist, but it’s exactly things such as this that made me start to see it, and now I can’t unsee it. People rabidly hold Israel to a different standard and only one explanation consistently makes sense.

      One Jewish nutbag bloviating his hatred into the void is asserted by some as evidence the the whole of Israel has evil, genocidal intent.

      Targeted bombings of tunnels, valid military targets, with cell phone warnings, pamphleting, and roof knocking is described as indiscriminate.

      Not giving foreigners the same rights as natively born or naturalized citizens is called literal “apartheid.”

      Israel must stop bombing immediately or America should burn our alliance and feed the Jews to Iran, only Israel though, for Hamas it’s all “keep up the good work! Death to America!”