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I’m confused as to why you seem concerned with the killing of civilians on October 7, but support the killing of ten times as many civilians after October 7. Is killing civilians OK or not? Non-combatant lives are generally supposed to be valued no matter what side you’re on. Unless you’re just racist, of course. Are you simply a racist bigot?

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Are the thousands of Yemenite Jews who came to Israel in the 19th century white? Are the over hundred thousand Iraqi Jews who were ethnically cleansed from Baghdad white? What about Ethiopian Jews? Clearly this topic isn’t something you follow closely it’s just the new craze the algorithm has chasing this month. Next month it will be a new flag to wave, new topic to become a tik Tok expert on, and of course new reasons to morally preen and call people you disagree with “racist!!” Good luck, hope next weeks cause allows you to wear a cool scarf and other flair like this one.

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I suppose that would make it easier to present these specious arguments. Sorry, I’ve been paying attention for more than 20 years, even before the IDF murdered my classmate Rachel Corrie with a bulldozer in 2003, while illegally demolishing a Palestinian home in the West Bank. Tell me, what do the historical examples you mentioned have to do with Herzl’s European colonial project? Could they be a rhetorical distraction since the actual history from 1917 to today reveals something you’d rather not talk about? By the way, I’m not calling you a racist- you’re clearly displaying it for the world to see.

Also: how do you reconcile a faith which is based on the sacredness of all human life, one that considers saving a life to be the act most pleasing to God, with your depraved and merciless approval of this killing? Honest question. How much more killing will satisfy you?

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1. I’m an Atheist. 2. Hundreds of thousands of of middle eastern Jews were ethnically cleansed and fled from other Middle Eastern nations post Herzl but it complicates the college dorm room white colonist narrative so it’s always swept under the rug like you’re trying to do. The Iraqi Jewish flight to Israel occurred in 48. 3. The fact you define what happened to Rachel Corrie as “murder” shows how unhinged you are. Signing off from this conversation. Start polishing up your next flag for your upcoming software update. I hear it’s good one. Will allow you to call a lot of people names.

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Ahh, I see. Are we blaming Hamas for Corrie’s death? Was she being used as a human shield, then? Not murder because the IDF soldier who ran her down was “just following orders?” Sounds familiar, right alongside some other historical example I can think of.

I don’t blame you for wanting to sign off.

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The driver of the bulldozer wasn’t following orders, he didn’t even see her. She was lying down in front of the bulldozer in war zone in an effort to protect homes covering weapons tunnels and caches. Unfortunate event but not murder and completely her fault.

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