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Donald Obama's avatar

"Self-defense" is the talking point slapped in my face by my representative and senators after I wrote to them demanding a ceasefire. That, and "concern" with civilian casualties and abuses committed by Israel in the West Bank.

Concern is not an appropriate response to apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.

Self-defense is not an appropriate description for Israel's mass bombing campaign, its destruction of all Palestinian civilian and health infrastructure, Israel's use of starvation and disease as weapons, its arbitrary arrest and executions of journalists and activists, its desecration of religious and cultural sites.

The narrative they try to tell in the face of reality reveals a lot more about them than it obscures the truth.

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Jeano's avatar

This is just a new version of the “triangulation” technique perfected by the Clintons in the 90’s. It worked because it’s subtle and nefarious. But it’s shopworn now and more and more people are seeing thru it. So when Killary takes over the campaign of Genocide Joe and starts stirring up more madness, the whole technique will be exposed and will collapse. That will be one good thing to come out of this next year.

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Alex Brown's avatar

Occupiers have no such right to self defense. That right is for the occupied.

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bot_483's avatar

What a pathetic statement.

Where do you live? and where did your ancestors 1,000 years ago live? Where were they 150,000 years ago?

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Ymarsakar's avatar

Demonia go away

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bot_483's avatar

where to? my indigenous homeland...where's that? What place on earth do I have the right to go kill someone and take that land?

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gypsy33's avatar

What’s your fucking point?

The one on your head?

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bot_483's avatar

The point is very simple, "indigenous-ness' is disingenous-ness. Everyone has migrated from somewhere, except perhaps a few in java and mesopotamia. If we evolved from apes, where did they begin...

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gypsy33's avatar

Sounds like you personally have ceased to evolve.

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bot_483's avatar

Makes no difference, and you make no point, again. Your measure of anyone's evolution is meaningless, gypsy. anti-amerikkkan...lol. But as we're speculating, seems you never did evolve from a base primate, scat monkey.

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Rebal's avatar

Poignant

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Fran's avatar

He claimed this was an existential war where Israel was fighting for its very existence and therefore no limits. This is the SOB who empowered Hamas through decades because they like him they didn't want a two state solution.

“For years, the various governments led by Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank – bringing Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group”, wrote political correspondent Tal Schneider in the Times of Israel last week. “The idea was to prevent Abbas – or anyone else in the Palestinian Authority’s West Bank government – from advancing toward the establishment of a Palestinian state”.

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Ymarsakar's avatar

The natural reply is hamas has the right to self defense palestine

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