Man in Florida 'shoots two Israelis he thought were Palestinian'
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Good thing this jackass had terrible aim.
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To be fair, it's not that easy to distinguish them just by looks.
(I would att a /s but somehow it doesn't fit because it's true)
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at the core of every genocide is some sickeningly arbitrary difference that not even the people enacting the genocide can fully discern. Palestinians are indigenous to the Levant, just like Jews were. they just survived the ethnic cleansing enacted by the romans differently. similarly by both russia, and many Ukrainians telling of the origins of the rus, they originated from Kyiv. back in the 1930s and 40s, the Germans had to invent more and more arbitrary ways to identify Jews because since resettlement in Galitsye (today divided between Germany, Chzechia, Poland, russia, and Ukraine) Jews integrated themselves into the indigenous population (in large part thanks to unprecedented religious tolerance on behalf of the people of Galitsye and later Poland) meaning telling who was and wasn't Jewish was hard to impossible for the German officers responsible for deciding who to kill.
my point is this: arbitrarily killing Palestinians is antisemitic. it runs even a little deeper than simply "Palestinians are semitic, just like me" given that their cultural traditions are shared. it gets into violence against my sister is violence against me. harm against Palestinians is harm against Jews. once there are no more identifiably Palestinian people left to kill, next will come the Jews who aren't identifiably non-Palestinian enough. and who decides who that is? where does the killing stop?
the best way to avoid being killed in a genocide is to prevent genocide from happening. the second best way is to bring ongoing genocides to an end. unfortunately, it is falling to us, the populace, to defend ourselves from the military apparatus of the imperial powers of the globe. a great battle is about to unfold between the forces of good, evil, and indifference, just as it has approximately every 80 years throughout history. part of our aim in thi; battle is to preserve our message that we were here. that there was good in the world even at its worst.
i hope you've read a diary of a young girl by anne frank, and understand its gravity. it breaks my heart that a 13 year old saw all of what i'm seeing and chose to make her death meaningful as a story that passes this tale of resistance and kindness in the face of atrocity to me, but the point is that her voice made it through. so please, don't put her pain to waste. start taking actions you think 80 years from now someone who learns what you did during this time will be proud of, and find inspiring. even if it's something as simple as documenting the things you see, or growing food to share with your neighbors.
do what our ancestors did when faced with these times, plant trees the shade of which your physical body will never rest under
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He used 17b shots and the result:
sent the two victims to the hospital for their wounds, with one reportedly shot in the shoulder and the other hit in the forearm
So yes, that was lucky!
the suspect, 27-year-old Mordechai Brafman, who shot them 17 times, was charged with attempted murder.
So I guess the shooter was lucky too, he survived the arrest.
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Must have been white
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I hereby decree his name is "Barfman" now
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Anyone left at the justice department for those hate crime charges? Seems like an open and shut case
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Depends on who you ask.
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This is the propaganda we are sold, yes.
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One of the Israelis who got shot posted that he was the target of anti-Semitism and ends his message with 'Death to Arabs'
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So basically, everyone involved in this incident is a terrible person. Lovely.
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The real question: Is their skin pale enough to benefit from white privilege? B/c that's all that "whiteness" is.
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Distinguish whom? Zios come from all over the planet to steal land and commit genocide. Most of them look nothing at all like palestinians.
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That's obviously not all whiteness is when the richest man in the world says you don't belong to the white club.
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Ahhh the ol shoot em all and let God sorry them out technique
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Did he get shot in the head, or was he always a moron?
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Leopards, meet faces.
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Typical right winger, loves guns but rarely if ever practices.
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good god what a shitshow
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Palestinians is antisemitic. it runs even a little deeper than simply “Palestinians are semitic
Antisemitism only means hatred of Jews and nothing else. Trying to water the term down like you’re doing is extremely bad faith and usually done to give cover to antisemites.
That said, yes, many Palestinians have Jewish ancestors.
once there are no more identifiably Palestinian people left to kill, next will come the Jews
That’s some shizo level rambling.
