• nonailsleft@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Well if you casually leave out that part it becomes a lie by omission. And there’s a reason you have to use this lie both to yourself and to others. It has a whole different ring to it when you say “IDF regularly shoot teenagers throwing molotov cocktails in protest” instead of “routinely murdering children”.

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      1 year ago

      Mohammed Tamimi is the youngest Palestinian killed in the conflict this year

      Mohammed Tamimi is the youngest Palestinian killed in the conflict this year (June 2023)

      Shot in the head by Israeli forces.

      He was 2.

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      1 year ago

      Siblings Ali and Mayar ed-Din, who were killed in an IDF airstrike on May 9, 2023

      Siblings Ali and Mayar ed-Din, who were killed in an IDF airstrike on May 9, 2023

      Damn teenagers get younger with every cull.