I completely agree with everything you said. I wish we could see exactly what that person said.

I feel like a bit of context is appropriate ‡:

During the October 21 trial, she defended her posts as emotionally driven responses to the genocide in Gaza, stating she aimed to critique Zionism, not Judaism. Despite acknowledging that some of her words were “very violent,” she insisted her intentions were misinterpreted.

The vast majority of people in France criticizing Israel don’t get arrested. The French have even elected a French-Palestinian for the European Parliament (Rima Hassan), who’s been caught red-handed spreading fake news about Israel training dogs to rape palestinians, and is not in prison †

She won’t go to prison for this (suspended sentence, plus ankle bracelet).

I can’t tell if she actually advocated for terrorism, because I can’t find her exact words. But I wouldn’t be so quick to defend her given the circumstances. It could be true that she broke the law.

‡ https://qudsnen.co/?p=50621&amp

† https://www.lepoint.fr/politique/les-fake-news-de-rima-hassan-sur-la-guerre-a-gaza-27-06-2024-2564158_20.php

I just shat bricks realizing this.

But what do you do with them after you’ve seized them? Do you still have a purpose in life? 🤭

Oh, a real life tankie died.

Beware, Nazbear dickheads. This is what your buddy Putin’s Russia does to foreign war crime apologists like you.

That’s what I assumed as an European. Fellow yuropoors, do you think of the united statsian state first when you hear about Georgia?

No no you don’t understand, using CCP is racist

🤭

Was he dumb, or did the Putin regime threaten him with nad consequences if he didn’t get in?

I don’t want to spread rumors or anything, but the stupidity theory sounds a bit fishy.

It’s a moment in history, not an inviolable truth, which is what the comment I’m replying to implies. The West went through the same horrors closely enough in time that some people are still alive to tell the story. And the US has no lesson to teach people in the middle East. In less than 300 years of history, they’ve been at peace for less than 20 years. And they’ve been in 100+ conflicts according to Wikipedia. Other imperial powers in the West and elsewhere have comparable track records.

The region would be more stable if it wasn’t for imperialists. They made the bed for various extremist groups, and the middle East is paying the price.

The situation is comparable to someone lighting a fire and saying that the house was always on fire.

I’m denying the racist point of view that there’s something in people from the region that cause wars, or that it’s something that will just be there forever because “it is what it is”. Effects have causes you need to understand if you’re going to speak about it.

Don’t make the mistake of confusing a moment in history with a “natural” affinity for wars. Humans period have been at war from millenia, not just Middle East humans. There’s nothing in their genomes that makes them more belligerent than other peoples around the world.

Don’t believe me? Look up the grand total of years of peace time in the US since it was created. Look at the death toll of both world wars. Look at the history of Europe, or that of precolombian America, of China…

Now, if the West, Russia and friends could stop meddling with their affairs…

It’s the opposite in my experience. Without the strong malty flavors and the body alcohol adds, NA IPAs are very often thin and hollow, and taste like herbal tea.

Alcohol-free Beck’s is amazing if you get something that’s not been conserved inappropriately

Any source on this I could read?