Shooting two Jewish rando’s in the US will accomplish nothing for Gaza. It casts Palestinians in a negative light, bolsters Israeli propaganda and distracts Americans from Gaza’s plight.
I bet the administration will label it far left terrorism and will use it to stamp out opposition. The shooter’s loose connection to Democratic Socialist party will be a propaganda piece to label all democrats terrorists.
Were they shot because they were Jewish, or because they were Israeli? There is a difference, but equating the two as the same thing is part of why Israel is getting away with genocide.
I completely agree that killing them achieves nothing for Palestine. I also think killing them, even if it could is abhorrent as they are not combatants.
Netanyahu isn’t a combatant, would you be offended if someone was to target him?
Not every target has to be a “combatant” to be involved in killing you.
The degree of involvement of a non combatant is effective only in the public understanding of that position.
Luigi as an example. The public clearly understands that material impact even though that CEO isn’t directly killing people. We all know why he did it.
Anyone taking action “politically” and not just “emotionally” would understand this. I don’t advocate for vigilante justice. But I will make a judgement on when it’s done.
Luigi shifted public opinion in favor of his cause. This killing is only hurtful to the cause. There is no positive shift here. Especially in the positions and power of the targets.
All we can do now, is push back in the disgusting use of pro Israel people that are salivating at this incident in order to further justify starving Gaza.
Sure, but there are also degrees of involvement. I think Netanyahu is even worse than those on his right that are so hateful racist. They are clearly awful. However, he seems to be committing genocide purely to save his kin from political machinations. Just doesn’t care about human life one bit.
When you phrase it like that it sounds like Netanyahu planned it 🥲
I guess he figured if any pro-Palestinian speech was deemed terrorism, he might as well become a terrorist. I just don’t know why people like this target low-level staffers instead of the individuals most responsible, other than ease of access I guess.
People that get to this stage aren’t often thinking clearly. They are looking for place to release the anger and pain.
It’s why Luigi was such a unique case of vigilante justice. He was actually thinking clearly, and agree with him or not, he hit a target that most of the country thought “well, yeah that was bound to happen eventually”.
Allegedly obviously. Luigi allegedly did this. I still think they got the wrong guy.
If you think this is tragic, wait til you hear about the 2 million people starving to death in Gaza!
Sorry. Not sure what you mean by this, can you break it down for me?
Sincerely, what else could be meant by what they said?
When a child is murdered in Gaza those advocating for Palestinians point to it as a reason to end the bloodshed. Hundreds of children were murdered by Israel just this week. No one in the media has spoken there names or talked about their hopes and dreams.
When an Israeli diplomat is murdered those advocating for Israel use it as a reason why they need to continue to murder said children. The diplomat is treated like a human. Their names are known. The media tells us the sad story of their hopes and dreams that were stolen from them.
Palestinians are not treated as humans. Their deaths are statistics. Israeli deaths are treated as tragedies.
It’s a reason why this genocide continues. You have to dehumanize a population to the masses. And Israeli has succeeded in dehumanizing Palestinians, at least to the Western world.
The deaths of their own diplomats are simply tools to continue to justify their genocide. They don’t care about their diplomats anymore than they do their hostages in Gaza.
Oh, well when you take away the snark its actually a powerful message. Thanks!
Sorry. I’ve been advocating for Palestine since I first learned about the conflict truly as a young kid in 2015: as an ignorant college kid that visited my first major city of Chicago on an internship. Spoke with a Palestinian women and gave her a nod and an “ok” as she desperately tried to connect with me on what was being done to her family. She is was just holding a sign alone as I passed through the city. I was an ignorant idiot then. But even though I treated her like a random panhandler, what she said still stuck.
I’ll never know exactly what she said to me. But I know it’s when I started to care. I have definitely become cynical and frustrated, and tired since that time. But, I do really appreciate your reply.
I just only hope my own frustration or “snark” is heard in the same way.
Good luck to you in your cause. I hope you continue to articulate what it is you believe in a kind way, it will go a lot further, I believe.
It means who gives a fuck if two random Germans died in 1941. Focus on the concentration camps instead.
This is a horrible crime but Israel never wastes a good crisis.
It was probably a false flag.
It wouldn’t surprise me if Israel would stoop that low.
That’s too much credit in my opinion. This is bound to happen statically. Israel just had to wait and capitalize on it. It’s amazing it took this long. We didn’t seem to care when a landlord killed a Palestinian child who was his tenant. They didn’t seem to care when a Zionist shot two Arab Jews that they mistook for Palestinians.
I mean Israel has done this, and also failed to do it one time:
On 10th October, 2001, Israelis attempted to bomb the Mexican Legislative Assembly and blame it on Pakistan. They had false Pakistani passports but were caught.
More likely though this is not the case as full false flags happen when something much larger is at stake. Israel is sitting decently comfortably right now, even with Europe suddenly switching sides (which is more likely to do with Trump’s crappy foreign policy).
There’s always a higher chance of intentional neglect, like Israel’s “failure” to spot Hamas’s original invasion plans because they wanted a reason for escalation. It’s entirely possible they were aware of a threat but chose not to act.
Then again with how fast the media is all over this, who knows.
Sounds like diplomatic immunity…
