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US Soldier Sets Himself on Fire outside Israeli Embassy in Washington to Protest Gaza War (www.news18.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Alsephina@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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“I will no longer be complicit in genocide [in Gaza]. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the man apparently said before setting himself alight and repeatedly shouting “Free Palestine!”

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[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 years ago

Free yourself from propaganda

[-] Grant_M@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago

I'm free. That's why I am able to see that Hamas are terrorists.

[-] P00P_L0LE@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

claims to be a free thinker

Parrots the most common opinion in western society

claims others are brainwashed instead

Interesting

[-] Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago

Hamas is not Palestine as Israel is not all Jews.

Hamas is a cancer that must go for peace to have a chance

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

Y'all say shit like this but when I say Israel is a cancer that must go for peace to have a chance y'all get mad.

[-] P00P_L0LE@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The people fighting to defend Palestinians from their imminent ethnic cleansing are a "cancer", but the same is not said for the occupying nation committing the cleansing.

Interesting!