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[–] lettruthout 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Except for those we don't like.

To make it easier to mess them up we'll put nasty labels on them: "insurgents", "radicals", "communists" and the ever-popular "terrorists".

[–] AlmightySnoo 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So I guess then when we're calling Hamas "terrorists", that's just us putting a "nasty label" on them? So how do you call them? "Freedom fighters"?

[–] DoomBot5 3 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure we're supposed to call them civilians. At least once they're dead.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I will be willing to call Hamas a terrorist organization as soon as you recognize Israel as a terrorist organization.

[–] AlmightySnoo 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I will be willing to call Hamas a terrorist organization as soon as

"as soon as" implying that right now you think they're merely a "resistance" or "heroes" I guess?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. They are. A violent one, but by definition they are. But let's ignore the international courts declaring Israel's settlements as illegal, the thousands of Palestinians dead before this conflict started. This happened because those people are savages, ruthless disgusting terrorist bastards who can't stand their houses demolished, their kids shot, burned alive, chemically attacked. They should have shut up, stayed quiet and stuck with the peaceful protests, that we shot at anyways. Why couldn't they just held hands and sung we shall overcome as the bombs rained down on them.

And the West Bank, well we'll just forget it exists since we can't pin it on Hamas.

[–] AlmightySnoo -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah. They are.

Thank you for your honesty I guess, most antisemites dodge that one

[–] SoleInvictus 0 points 1 year ago

Ahhh, the famous "if you criticize Israel you're an antisemite" argument, proof since Israel's inception that the person you're talking to is garbage.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You have no conscious

Nice edit calling me an anti-semite: I'm Jewish.

[–] AlmightySnoo -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice edit calling me an anti-semite: I’m Jewish.

That's like saying the MAGAs aren't white-supremacists just because they have some black people on their side.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Telling me I'm not a real Jew because I don't support Israel 👍

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I honestly don’t think that you will find many people in the Fediverse that condone Netanyahu and his right wing cronies in the Israeli government. Criticizing them is done legitimately so and at length. If you don’t see that you probably miss eyes and ears …

To me it looks very much like a leopards ate my face situation unfolding with you. At the Moment you are the useful idiot for Hamas so they might even cheer you on - but that WILL change. Have you ever heard anything about the Jews for Hitler?

[–] Riccosuave 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Have you ever heard anything about the

Lehi (militant group) that actively attempted to align with the Third Reich before and during WWII?

Yeah, the Nationalist, Zionist, Ethno-Supremacist, Crypto-Fascist terrorist organization that was a preeminent force in the formation of the Jewish ethno-religious state of Israel. Oh and by the way, they also went on to form Likud, you know, the far-right political party of which Benjamin Netanyahu is a member.

Yes, that's right. Israel was partly founded by, and currently controlled by a political movement who learned from and attempted to directly align with Nazi Germany. So, careful where you're slinging around your jack-boot history unless you want to admit that Israel was created with the support of literal terrorists and fascist sympathizers.

[–] AlmightySnoo -2 points 1 year ago

At the Moment you are the useful idiot for Hamas so they might even cheer you on - but that WILL change. Have you ever heard anything about the Jews for Hitler?

We even have something similar today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Voices_for_Trump

[–] AlmightySnoo -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Notice by the way how your last two comments were merely your own deductions about how you see yourself because I never said any of what you claim in them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You called a Jewish person an anti Semite because they do not believe Israel has the right to steal land and slaughter civilians. No where did I mention religion or Jewish people anywhere.

[–] AlmightySnoo -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You called a Jewish person an anti Semite

Nope, I did say however that antisemites dodge your open Hamas support and justification of their terror acts and thanked you for your honesty. That you concluded something else is entirely on you.

[–] TheFonz 2 points 1 year ago

Hold on. You can't have it both ways. When Hamas goes out and slaughters children we don't get to call them "freedom fighters". IDF is not free of culpability either but come on.