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hlthe2b

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2. Pardon my cynicism (realism?) but sounds like a green light for Netanyahu to go full speed ahead...

Reply to GJGCA (Original post)

Sat Aug 16, 2025, 01:42 PM

Aug 16

with extermination. Don't like the term? Then STOP HIM/IT!

It is no less genocide if someone less universally hated (and who represents a people with such a storied and devastating history of experiencing the same) does it. Indiscriminate killing of women and children trapped in a war zone with enforced famine--bombed while they wait in line for medical care or desperate food supplies... What would others CHOOSE to call it?

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State Department halts Gaza visitor visas [View all] GJGCA Aug 16 OP

Never again: cbabe Aug 16 #1

Pardon my cynicism (realism?) but sounds like a green light for Netanyahu to go full speed ahead... hlthe2b Aug 16 #2

Once again, cruelty is the point Bayard Aug 16 #3