Hamas Attacks, Israel Responds

Joking about an unarmed college professor being murdered says more about you than about him.

And the QT was him sarcastically pointing out that the allegation in question (a baby in an oven) had been debunked.

 

His sarcastically pointing that out was still in really poor taste given all the things that Hamas actually did do.

 

It is not about living in this sub forum. It is about that you are so blinded by your bias, you have fallen for the most simple gimmick play. And you seem to be a man that should know better but have willing chosen to not do so.

 

Looking at the rest of the guy's tweets, it was hardly sarcastic.

Allah wasn't certainly amused either.

 

You generally give people who are under heavy bombardment a little bit more leeway in the things they say, no?

Unless that person is a saint, a Palestinian in Gaza is going to absolutely loathe Israel and they will have compelling reasons to do so.

 

Absolutely loathing Israel’s government I understand; the kind of loathing it would take to perform the acts against ordinary Israelis that took place on 10/7 I do not. Unless of course there’s something more to that loathing than just the actions of Israel.

 

We're talking about a college professor who made a joke that was in bad taste! And he was murdered today along with his entire family.

 

Guess he’s going to have to stand before his maker and account for his words and actions.

Wonder how that will go for him.

 

I assumed from that joke that he supported Hamas’ actions.

 

Albany, NY - Temple Israel Synagogue shooter has been identified as 28 year old Mufid Fawaz Alkhader.

Alkhader, yelled "Free Palestine" as he shot off a round on the premises of Temple Israel and appeared to have torn down an Israeli flag or sign, according to law enforcement.… pic.twitter.com/3o5HthLXII

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) December 8, 2023

 

He clearly did from both his retweet and tweets.

Israel uses rape lies/accusations against native Palestinians to demonize them and justify the Gaza genocide— much like white supremacists used rape lies against black men to justify the lynching and lies. Black people who believe Israel justify the lynching of black men. https://t.co/Au6FoxqOPq

— Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸 (@itranslate123) December 4, 2023

When Israel ran out of lies, it regurgitated the rape and sexual violence lie. The first to get the Zionist marching orders is this UN racist Antonio Guterres.
ALL the rape/sexual violence allegations are lies. Israel uses them as smokescreens to justify the Gaza genocide. https://t.co/GcWWIhItI5

— Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸 (@itranslate123) December 4, 2023

 

The fact that known grifter Bari Weiss is riding the university thing like a horse is LOL. But not surprising.

 

Bari Weiss' vision of a college campus is one where queer, trans, Muslim, ... kids are harassed and threatened with impunity, so this latest chapter is shameless in its hypocrisy.

 

Maybe, but I'd argue that this is still pretty significant and possibly very significant for two possible reasons:

Possibility 1:
Hamas (or PIJ, etc.) fighters and auxiliaries have started surrendering which means that after 2 months of hunkering down in the tunnels, supplies are running low or that the internal Gazan debate - "it really is different this time. They're going to the end" - is affecting morale. The footsoldiers - not all of whom are fanatics - have simply decided that their signing up included the possibility of dying in a tunnel, not the certainty of it.
Most of them (two-thirds or more) are fighters or auxiliaries and the fight is going out of "the resistance", as it does in any armed group, and the "conquer Gaza" phase may have only weeks to go.

Possibility 2:
The numbers have been padded (50 to 70%) with ordinary guys from a random sweep or a search for sources of information, with the puffed-up visuals being deliberately publicized to boost the war effort. That strongly suggests things are not going well, maybe even badly, and that Israel's "window of permission" is closing without worthwhile results.
Since Israel has a very vigorous and free press, to put it mildly, that's not a good move: social media and facial recognition software will identify plenty in a week or two and their anodyne or outright innocent backgrounds will follow quickly. The backlash will be harsh, and that's just internationally. Within Israel, it'll be ferocious and from all angles.

If we see more of these in the coming weeks, it's likely to be the first option. Doing the other one more than a handful of times is just too risky.

 

"Sarcastically"? If you didn't know him personally or aren't a student of his literary style, that's just an assertion on your part. OTOH if you are a student of his literature, please point me to examples and I'll be happy to correct myself.

As for him being "murdered", in combat, that applies only if he was targeted by soldiers who a) knew who he was, b) that he was unarmed and c) not a member of any militant group. Otherwise he's a casualty in a war. War is an unimaginable evil, whose only justification is that it's sometimes the lesser evil. Let's take it seriously.

And since you're unlikely to be in Gaza at the moment, let alone have been on the scene when he was killed, you have no idea whether he was armed or unarmed either.