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Mosby

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2. People here have been calling Israel's response "revenge" from the beginning.

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Thu May 9, 2024, 11:38 AM

May 2024

Those who keep saying that Israel’s response is an act of revenge rather than the strategic, defensive war that most Israelis view as a fight for national survival against a determined enemy backed by a powerful country are deliberately distorting reality. In doing so, they are perversely evoking the same false blood lust and grotesqueness embedded in the blood libel archetype.

Same old story, Jews aren't allowed to defend themselves.

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