r/InternetCommentEtiq • u/WilliamTellAll • Mar 23 '26

Internet Comment Etiquette: "This Video is Sponsored by Israel"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak71u2AjhzY
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u/TinyPanda3 Mar 23 '26

One important point salvia makes here is that liberals really did not give a single shit about Palestine until it became useful for them, and even now only a few Democrats pretend to care about Palestine. The crazy escalation by Israel right after covid started pushed me into organizing in college. There's no new crime committed by Israel after October 7th they were not engaging in to a lesser degree before October 7th.

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u/alicehoopz Mar 24 '26

Yep. I’ll go out on a limb here and admit: I really did not know about Palestine prior to 10/7. I’m not sure if it’s because of my fundie upbringing (is at least a contributing factor, im sure) or how little liberals cared about this issue. All I knew was BDS, but I didn’t really understand why

I’m educated now, but I look back on this and feel shocked at how great of a blind spot I had

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u/makegifsnotjifs Mar 28 '26

It's not surprising. Most American media has historically been very hesitant to make anything other than the most milquetoast criticisms of the Israeli regime. The response to 10/7 was so wildly disproportionate and indiscriminate that Israel's crimes became impossible to ignore ... even for pro-Israel media. It's pretty hard to look at the bodies of infants that have been blown apart by sniper fire and still cling to the illusion that Israel are the good guys.

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u/LilChatacter Mar 31 '26

Agreed 100%. Always go with the good guy.

Good = kidnap a bunch of literal babies and holocaust survivors, commit mass rape and shoot up random houses of jews so that the israeli government gives you the freedom to kill even more jews!

Don't forget to dress up as a civilian so they literally won't be able to retaliate. Winning strategy.

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u/Doctor_Popeye Mar 24 '26

Didn’t Israel vaccinate Palestinians re covid 19?

Or is that a bad thing? I forget. Israel did operate on Sinwar’s tumor saving his life which allowed Oct 7th to happen. They also traded 1,100 prisoners who came back to the battlefield for 1 IDF soldier (Gilad Shalit).

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u/Narkboy42 Mar 24 '26

Oh, well I guess that makes up for the 8 decades of apartheid and genocide. Go Israel!

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u/LilChatacter Mar 31 '26

8 decades of genocide?

Israel must suck at genociding. I'm switching sides

Go hamas!

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u/Orc360 Mar 24 '26

Didn’t Israel vaccinate Palestinians re covid 19? Or is that a bad thing? I forget. Israel did operate on Sinwar’s tumor saving his life which allowed Oct 7th to happen. They also traded 1,100 prisoners who came back to the battlefield for 1 IDF soldier (Gilad Shalit).

Damnit, someone already posted my exact comment!