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GiqueCee

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1. And the ships...

Reply to Violet_Crumble (Original post)

Thu May 21, 2026, 07:22 AM

Thursday

... were boarded in international waters, which is a cardinal no-no. That's flat-out piracy. Netanyahu and his merry band of right-wing monsters are not helping Israel; they are driving her to the brink of being labeled a pariah state, just as Trump is doing to us.
And for the record, condemning Bibi's atrocities is NOT anti-semitic; but it is anti-Netanyahu. I don't believe for a moment that he speaks for all Israelis, any more than Trump speaks for all Americans, which he most vehemently does not.

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