Israeli settlers beat American to death in West Bank; US says it’s aware
Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank have beaten to death a United States citizen in his early 20s, the victim’s family members and rights groups have said.
“We are aware of reports of the death of a US citizen in the West Bank,” Reuters reported a State Department spokesperson as saying. The official declined to comment further “out of respect for the privacy of the family and loved ones” of the reported victim.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/11/israeli-settlers-beat-to-death-us-citizen-in-west-bank-family-saysOpen linkView original on lemmy.ml219
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Not an American, A Palestinian American. The Magazis don't give a shit.
An American was murdered under Biden too. No consequences because Zionism is bipartisan.
This ☝️.
Nice
You say that like MAGA are the only ones that don't care about Israel killing Americans. Were you even aware that it happened under Biden?
Can you point to the word "only" in my comment?
Don't be deliberately disingenuous. And if you're insist on it, then I'll match you: point to where I said you used the word 'only' in your comment, in my comment.
You comment strongly implied that you thought Maple Engineer thought this was a MAGA-specific phenomenon. There isn't the same strong implication in Maple Engineer's comment.
Bold mine. Yes there is.
Where did they say they only thought it was the "Magazis" who don't give a shit? You're like those amerikan liberals who think that criticising genocide joe meant you thought trump was better. You can make a negative comment about one amerikan politician without it being a positive about another. They're practically the same anyway.
Oh look, you've suddenly flipped back to demanding explicit quotes, when previously you accepted implications.
Hypocrite.
Oooooh, so now you're willing to accept implied statements!
What happened to demanding explicit quotes only? Which implicit is exactly the opposite of.
And yes, there is the same strong implication in their comment
I never said that I wasn't "willing to accept implied statements"? Their original comment absolutely did not imply they thought that it was only MAGAheads who were ok with Israel killing USAmericans, on the same level that you implied they thought that. You're like that tweet about "I like waffles" "So you hate pancakes?". They didn't say anything about Biden either way...
Yes it absolutely did. Stop being deliberately obtuse.
Can you point to where I said he thought it was a maga specific phenomenon?
The first sentence...
Please point out where I said that explicitly
Can I point to where I said you said that explicitly? I can point to where I said you said it implicitly though. (emphasis mine)
You also more or less said it explicitly though, if you want to go down that route. I can't quote a specific part of your comment because your entire comment is based on this suggestion. (emphasis mine again)
So you can't point to where I said it explicitly.
Hypocrite
Sorry your straw man didn't work.
I am begging reddit debate lords to actually learn what 'strawman' means, rather than treating the wikipedia page on logical fallacies like a list of magic incantations.
I am also begging them to just talk plainly: "You strawmanned me", rather than this insufferable nerd sarcasm bullshit of "sorry you strawman didn't work."
I mean if, we're being real, it was also a whataboutism. "What about what the democrats did?"
Get better.
Whataboutism is itself a thought-terminating cliché.
Citations Needed podcast: Whataboutism - The Media's Favorite Rhetorical Shield Against Criticism of US Policy
Do you lot insist on writing like the most annoying losers on earth deliberately?
Why the fuck are my tax dollars being sent to these assholes again?
That's a good question, it makes me similarly think 'What happens to the social contract when a nation & government no longer provide security to it's own citizens?'
That's what happened in Russia, the Tsar responded to the old and well established act of a priest delivering a letter to the Tsar to ask for aid during hardships by ordering his Calvary soldiers to open fire on the priest and crowd. It was literally an act of submission to the Tsar. At that point, people stopped seeing the whole divine right of kings concept as holding water.
https://writingexplained.org/calvary-vs-cavalry-difference
It is a trend started that started a decade ago (ironically with Obama!) but the transition is now complete; Americans with a skin color, let alone if naturalized, are not considered "actual American" therefore no longer news worthy. At least, they still give a conditional pass to those darker skins conforming with the ideology of the presidency that happens to be ruling at the time.
This did not start with Obama. It's always been here but ramped up again because Obama got the presidency.
Good point!
The racists don't give a shit. What a waste of oxygen they are.
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For once I believe on that “out of respect for the privacy of the family and loved ones”, because the BS the State Department spokesperson would have said instead would have been extremely infuriating for the mourning family.
You think people should kill foreigners? Or specifically dark-skinned foreigners?