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They weren't just born there (and given the number of settlers over there, that's doubtful tbh). They took a state job representing, and lobbying for this genocide.
It's a tragedy that it has come to this, but it's not wrong. It's wrong that it has to be this way.
Killing is only justified if it saves lives. Anyone can see this act will cost lives on both sides. And 1000x as many on the Palestinian side.
Let's be real, this guy wanted to be a badass and get praise and attention. And he doesn't care how many die because of that.
I have a hard time reconciling killing is justifiable. I can agree if your life is in immediate danger but then you have the cops who use it as a license to kill. I lean on the side that some things just can't be justified and we have to mitigate/manage these instances.
You know not all embassy staff are ambassadors from Israel right?
You can work at an embassy and be a US citizen.
Which one of them was.
That's even worse then. Not even the excuse of growing up there to fall back on. They chose to work there still.
So you condone the killing of a person because they happen to work somewhere?
Odd take but ok.
Much of Germany was working for the Third Reich, if you don't recall from history.
Shooting random staffers doesn't fight the Third Reich leadership, you just murdered some random people.
Unh huh, because that's what the US so famously did in WWII, target only the Nazi leadership while refusing to attack anyone else. Very definitely a great way to defeat facism.
Yep nuance flies right over your head too.
Much of Germany had NSDAP party affiliation because of their role in society or a wanting to have the benefits of social movement.
Shooting some random accountant or whatever isn’t going to win the war.
But sure, murder these two staffer because that’ll really help Palestine win. Dumbass.
If you conveniently forget to mention where it is exactly they happen to work, of course it sounds silly.
Can we circle around to the nuance thing? These were Embassy staffers.
And whatever innocent or less implicated person who might have died in an attack such as this would be the fault of the Israeli state.
Nuance, it goes right over your head.
How do you know they were lobbying for genocide? For all we know they were against it and working for a peaceful solution. Not everyone who works for a government is part of the ideology. That's no better than saying every Democrat is MAGA.
I suppose, but they weren't ambassadors. So - that's wrong.
Damn, a shadow of a doubt?! Holy shit you must have the motherfucking receipts on these sumbitches, let's see it! Whatcha got, facebook post? Tiktok? Some sort of cleverly disguised academic treatise?
Yeah you got nothing. GTFO.
Oh FFS.
Maybe they did, which is why they were at an event to discuss delivering more aid to Gaza.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cy9vr10n732t
These were young idealists trying to make a change. But the shooter didn't care about the distinction, and it seems many others don't either.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crk2264nrn2o
Most Israelis support Israel which, until a few years ago, was a-ok on account of the previous thousands of years of persecution in every other country in the world, cresting in the unpleasantness of the early-mid 1900s which set quite the bar for evil and horror.
Then Likud - like all republiQan, right-wing authoritarian regimes - seized power and started fucking everything up in incredible, outrageous ways. Americans should be familiar.
I don't know what they did for the embassy, but it could be something utterly harmless and treating them like enemy combatants when they're in an entirely different country at a museum is wrong.
I get the hate at the Likud/IDF for the genocide. Y'all are losing the plot by thinking this is ok though. It is very much not okay.
You just have to check Lischinsky tweets and retweet oposing a palestinian state because it would be a gift to Khamas
Counter point: how do you know they weren't..?
What about where to draw the line? Everyday the money we use is funneled to some corporation that has a hand in the human suffering that happens around the globe. When is thier evil transfered to me because I contributed to their successs.
I'd say the line is crossed when you have agency and knowingly use it to perpetuate suffering.
Everyone has agency to be more decerning with their purchases.