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Israel/Palestine

AloeVera

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7. It's the celebration of having achieved a goal.

Reply to stopdiggin (Reply #3)

Tue Aug 19, 2025, 07:32 PM

Tuesday

The goal was to "teach a lesson" by "humiliating, slaughtering, murdering". Because it was "necessary" and "required". And it could only be done if 50 Palestinians were killed for every Oct 7th victim.

Those were his words. Through which he not only admitted to those things having been done but having knowledge of it and approving it.

It's sick.

The fact that there are already 50,000 dead in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations. OK, you humiliated, you slaughtered, you murdered, everything is true,” said the former military chief.

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/middle-east/aharon-haliva-palestine-gaza-israel-b2809732.html

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LEAKED AUDIO: Israeli Mil Head Celebrates Killing Kids [View all] Uncle Joe Tuesday OP

not exactly 'celebrating' - - - here is what NPR reports .... stopdiggin Tuesday #1

Perhaps, but I see this as a distinction without a difference. n/t Uncle Joe Tuesday #2

and I see no 'celebration' - (unless one chooses to embellish ..) stopdiggin Tuesday #3

I find it irrelevant if someone "celebrates" the murdering of children en masse or if their warped view of the world Uncle Joe Tuesday #5

OK. But then you chose to layer (and prefer?) your own 'interpretation' stopdiggin Tuesday #8

Everyone uses their own interpretation as to what reality is. Uncle Joe Tuesday #12

It's the celebration of having achieved a goal. AloeVera Tuesday #7

I agree with all that you say here stopdiggin Tuesday #10

Sometimes one needs to stopdiggin ... cliffside Tuesday #9

And - the hyperbolic title, is exactly what I am pointing to stopdiggin Tuesday #11

Exaggeration is needed sometimes to wake people up, pay attention and stop making excuses for all the killing ... cliffside Tuesday #13

Irony doesn't seem to exist for these genocide favoring a-holes. I mean how... brush Tuesday #4

OK, you humiliated, you slaughtered, you murdered, everything is true," said the former military chief. AloeVera Tuesday #6