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Prairie Gates

(8,324 posts)
8. Rarely is public expiation so ironically framed
Tue Apr 21, 2026, 08:14 AM
Yesterday

The IDF has murdered 70,000 human beings in Gaza, men, women, and children, by bomb, by bullet, by blockade and starvation. They've flattened cites, raped their captives, displaced hundreds of thousands, sending people qua e la to avoid the slaughter.

In Lebanon, they've displaced a million, condemning them to tent cities, penury, and starvation. They've destroyed homes and whole villages, annexing the country to the Litani River, smashing infrastructure as they go, and aiming for more. They've bombed a civilian area of Beirut in broad daylight, killing hundreds of undisputed civilians while posting Top Gunesque pictures of their crime for their fans to cheer about.

In the West Bank, they arm and support paramilitary death squads who conduct frequent pogroms, menacing, robbing, beating, torturing, and killing with impunity.

They've started a global war that has spread slaughter and shortages from Shiraz to Manila, from Dublin to Dubai.

And now Benjamin Netanyahu, the Butcher of Gaza, will chide this one soldier for this one act, an expiation of sins via an expiator of sins.

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Couple of things: no_hypocrisy Yesterday #1
Not going to jump on you, it has been obvious for a long time FakeNoose Yesterday #13
;-{).... Goonch Yesterday #2
Worse than a statue ninjanurse Yesterday #3
Right more uproar for violence applied to an object forgotmylogin Yesterday #7
It's easier when you don't think of them as people but as animals or vermin. AloeVera Yesterday #9
I knew a coupe of Christian Palestine. multigraincracker Yesterday #4
The IDF has been trained as assassins and terrorists with no accountability for war or other crimes. Lonestarblue Yesterday #5
Can you imagine the outrage from Faux News if Dr. T Yesterday #6
Rarely is public expiation so ironically framed Prairie Gates Yesterday #8
They also control the press. No reporter multigraincracker Yesterday #16
I am an atheist Farmer-Rick Yesterday #10
Has AIPAC issued guidelines re: how to respond to this yet? Orrex Yesterday #11
Of all the things the Israeli government and military are doing, this is not the one that most concerns me. Scrivener7 Yesterday #12
The orthodox attack Christian tourists, bar entrance to Christian holy sites like Jerusalem Church of the Holy Sepulchre ChicagoTeamster Yesterday #14
Meanwhile they have destroyed mosques that date back to Roman times. You don't hear much about that. Martin68 Yesterday #15
THIS is what "outrage" grows over? Not ethnic cleansing? Not mass killing? maxsolomon Yesterday #17
Melded-Faiths? czarjak Yesterday #18
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