▲ 332 ▼ Hamas and the GOP are both terrorist groups — it's just a matter of degree (www.salon.com) submitted 2 years ago by jeffw@lemmy.world to c/politics@lemmy.world 46 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago (2 children) Israel's apartheid regime is terrorism permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago They're basically committing blood libel by lying about decapitated babies. Their settlers paint the star of David on Palestinian homes to intimidate them into leaving the way Germans or Americans would paint swastikas on the homes of Jews. It's beyond terrorism, Palestine has no exit route and no endgame. Israel is the fourth reich. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Neon@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (2 children) yeah, but that wasn't the Topic here? i swear to god, why is the go-to answer in these Topics always "but what about x?!" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) The headline is framed to make us forget Israel and the daily humanitarian abuses it commits by using the "GOP==bad" duopoly logic to reinforce the liberal readership's worldview. If Hamas use terror, if the GOP uses terror, then what of Israel? Is apartheid not a form of terrorism? Was Jim Crow not a form of terrorism? permalink fedilink source parent [–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago Why are you bringing up X, formerly known as Twitter? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago They're basically committing blood libel by lying about decapitated babies. Their settlers paint the star of David on Palestinian homes to intimidate them into leaving the way Germans or Americans would paint swastikas on the homes of Jews. It's beyond terrorism, Palestine has no exit route and no endgame. Israel is the fourth reich. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Neon@lemmy.world -4 points 2 years ago (2 children) yeah, but that wasn't the Topic here? i swear to god, why is the go-to answer in these Topics always "but what about x?!" permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) The headline is framed to make us forget Israel and the daily humanitarian abuses it commits by using the "GOP==bad" duopoly logic to reinforce the liberal readership's worldview. If Hamas use terror, if the GOP uses terror, then what of Israel? Is apartheid not a form of terrorism? Was Jim Crow not a form of terrorism? permalink fedilink source parent [–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago Why are you bringing up X, formerly known as Twitter? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) The headline is framed to make us forget Israel and the daily humanitarian abuses it commits by using the "GOP==bad" duopoly logic to reinforce the liberal readership's worldview. If Hamas use terror, if the GOP uses terror, then what of Israel? Is apartheid not a form of terrorism? Was Jim Crow not a form of terrorism? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago Why are you bringing up X, formerly known as Twitter? permalink fedilink source parent