• Taniwha420@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      I’m not seeing it here, but the other ironic subtext is that Goliath was a Philistine, now known as a Palestinian (same root word).

      • demesisx@infosec.pubOP
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        18 hours ago

        I’ll explain: Israel is evoking an image OF David to defend against people that are (as you just said) descendants of the Philistine. If that’s not cruel irony, I don’t know what is.

    • Sundial@lemm.ee
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      1 day ago

      Boy oh boy did they screw up on this topic. I guess the DNC got their cheque and left laughing as the rest of the world continues to get fucked.

      • Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee
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        19 hours ago

        More like consciously made an awful decision whilst gaslighting the public about their desire for a two-state solution and active war crimes they’re sponsoring and supplying:

        While clarifying that President Joe Biden has worked vigorously to support “Palestinian aspirations for statehood” within the context “of a comprehensive peace that would resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” a diplomatic cable dated April 12 details U.S. talking points against a U.N. vote for Palestinian statehood. The cable says that Security Council members must be persuaded to reject any proposal for Palestinian statehood — and thereby its recognition as a sovereign nation — before the council’s open debate on the Middle East, scheduled for April 18.