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[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 57 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So your job is to be a sexy liberal Arab but not, like, too liberal or too Arab.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

And definitely not praising the people who just went through a music festival with guns and indiscriminately killed people and dragged off other ones.

A woman whose husband is missing was being interviewed. She said that whenever her baby would cry in their hiding place, bullets would fly through the wall of the shed where they were hiding.

Why anyone would have praise for that organization I cannot fathom.

[–] dmonzel@lemmy.world -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Good thing she didn't actually praise anyone who just went through a music festival with guns. But nice job making that assumption instead of actually reading the quote.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Her comment suggests the videos of interest are being filmed by the freedom fighters.

I am unaware of any armed Palestinian group which fights the Israeli government for their independence. Who is the only other group that someone could (somehow) construe as freedom fighters that's taking videos?

Unless she's calling the Israeli army freedom fighters and they have people filming in their midst, there's only one group she can be talking about, and they went through a music festival with guns.

Don't stop at just reading the comment. Comprehend it. Analyze it.

Edit: And that includes your own comments. There are indeed other groups involved which aren't Hamas, and she was referring to civilians. Incredibly poor wording if she's telling the truth, but I see no reason to not give her that benefit of the doubt.

[–] dmonzel@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So instead of responding to my actual point, you went on this lengthy rant. K.

[–] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

The edit was me eating crow and saying she should get the benefit of the doubt.

[–] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works -5 points 10 months ago

Politics is kind of fucked