US airman dies after setting himself on fire outside Israeli embassy
US airman dies after setting himself on fire outside Israeli embassy
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US airman dies after setting himself on fire outside Israeli embassy
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I wish to share my most sincere gratitude and love with the service member and their family. According to the article this is the second self immolation outside an Israeli embassy in the US.
Israel is committing genocide, and the US is complicit. Don’t let anyone forget that.
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Can anyone Eli5 us and Israel connection.
I don't know much about politics.
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The middle east is an extremely geopolitically important region for the US because of all of the oil it has. The US therefore wants a country that it can use as basically a base of operation and client state in the region. Israel as a european settler colonials state is the client state that America wants because it largely is culturally closer to the US than the surrounding arab states. Consequently, the US defends Israel to the hilt regardless of the constant stream of atrocities that it commits.
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I did not realize this happened in the US.
News coverage of this is super sus
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News coverage of this is super sus
How so? Every article I read mentioned where it happened as well as US organizations performing the investigations.
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News coverage of this is super sus
I only learned about the first one due to this discussion we're in right here.
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Aaron Bushnell, hero and role model
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I wish he had another choice. We failed him by not being organized enough to welcome him as a comrade. Instead he chose to do the only thing he could. I admire his courage, but it's a damn shame we lost someone willing to die for Palestinians.
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We've failed him, we've failed the Palestinians, we've failed our immigrants and refugees, we've failed our LGBTQ+ people and people of color, we've failed our poor. The story of America is a story of one failure after another.
And I say "America" even though this is world news, because he was American.
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I'd like to know why anyone would downvote this. Do you support genocide?
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Maybe people are understandably uncomfortable with self immolation? Nobody has ever liked an effective activist in their time. The civil rights protesters in USA had a <25% approval rate in the 60s.
I think this person did what he thought was right, and I will remember him for that. And peace can't come soon enough.
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Eyes Left Podcast: A Guide to Getting Out of the US Military (Now) w/ the GI Rights Hotline
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ACAB doesn't include cops/military who quit.
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Absolute legend.
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This is crazy
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Will news/ acts like this change anything to US policy towards Israel?
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Never. Israel pays too much to US politicians and election campaigns for the ghouls they get elected to ever change. If they do have a change of heart they are easily replaced.
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One less protester
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My thoughts are with his family.
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