Essa Al-Nassr, a member of the Qatari legislative Shura council, spoke on Monday at an Arab League session, received ovation making bigoted accusations against Jews and promising the end of Israel.

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      Faith is fine and I encourage it. Organized religion corrupts. These assholes need to check themselves.

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        I’m increasingly believing that nothing is worse for the human brain than believing you’re righteous except for power. Organized religion isn’t the root of this but a handy and convenient way to combine the two

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      Quatar is famous for its neutrality, even in this conflict. US aid to Israel in part flows through US bases in Quatar, just miles from where Hamas leaders live. I haven’t exactly been keeping a close eye on them but I’m wondering what changed to make them say this. It’s not like they had any great concern for the plight of the Palestinians before this .

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    Can we all just fucking stop and catch our breath?

    This world has gotten in a big hurry to end ever since 2020

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      Covid facilitated the greatest transfer of wealth from the masses to the few in history.

      They’re addicted to that high and want to keep it going as long as possible.

      Blame useful idiots more than anyone else.

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    My imaginary tale is more real than YOUR imaginary tale.

    A tale as old as time…

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    This is a rather strong statement. I’m glad not to participate in that part of the world with any of the people involved. They really are not my cup of tea.

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    It’s not to excuse this kind of thing, because it’s monstrous, but you can draw a line from this rhetoric to Netanyahu’s actions.

    He’s put a target on the backs of the entire Jewish diaspora.

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      That’s the infuriating thing about this whole mess that feels impossible to solve.

      Rhetoric like this directly radicalizes Israelis and pushes them towards violent escalation, which then radicalizes Palestinians into violence as well, further inspiring more Israeli violence, and on and on the cycle goes.

      And then anyone who advocates for any amount of moderation will simultaneously get called a terrorist sympathizer for not wanting to nuke Gaza and a genocide accomplice for not wanting to forcibly remove or kill every Israeli.

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        Assholes, assholes everywhere. Islamist assholes, Zionist assholes , christian assholes trying to get the apocalypse going so they can be raptured. Capitalist Media assholes getting clicks from public outrage. And a whole of other asshole I’m not even aware of. We have laws about what kind of killing is acceptable. Those law were negotiated by people with zero chance of being subjected to lawful murder.

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      Especially given that last year most of the Gulf states had/were in the process of normalizing and publicizing diplomatic ties with Israel. Qatar has always been the odd one out in the Gulf, but the fact that these disgusting comments were lauded speaks to how much damage Netanyahu has done in such a short time.

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        It’s on purpose.

        Nothing creates unity like a shared enemy, and there’s no better shared enemy than Every One That’s Not Us™️.

        It’s why a lot of religious groups generate persecution complexes- it keeps people from leaving the fold.

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    Saw a sign on a ÙS campus demonstration which read “Final Solution”. Seems to be a global theme.

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        So, is it right to commit genocide because of another genocide that exists only in your mind?

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          A person suggesting genocide as a solution is a dangerous idiot; a country actually performing war crimes that make the whole world wonder if they are commiting genocide needs to be stopped.

          I don’t want to debate the semantics of genocide, I just want them to stop murdering everything that moves, destroying all infrastructure, and starving an entire population.

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            How could we execute this in such a way that it cannot be considered genocide but extinction? Perhaps a faulty experimental satellite somehow tows an asteroid and turns the nazionist cities into sodom and Gomorrah like in their fairy tales? Surely that counts as just good old extinction event instead. /S

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            A person suggesting genocide as a solution is a dangerous idiot

            Agree.

            Nothing about war is pleasent.

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      Seems like you’ve just misinterpreted that sign?

      Like yeah, it’s not a great sign - partly because it’s easy for people like you to intentionally misinterpret - but it’s pretty clear it’s saying that the Israeli killing of 1.5% of the population of Gaza, and displacement of 85% is a genocide.

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              You know it’s going to be good when you link a tweet from someone who called people paedophiles in retaliation for saying he was racist, got sued for slander and lost!

              There’s a difference between “the court didn’t determine it was plausible” (ie the court didn’t assess its plausibility) and “it isn’t plausible”

              So you can’t use it as proof that it isn’t a genocide, because that’s not what she said at all.

              As you say: but nice try, I guess! It’s a shame I’m literate!

              Next time, I recommend actually watching your source rather than regurgitating what the racist says 👍

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                She is or was the head of the International Criminal Court. I think she explained their odecision and doesn’t need your parsing. You Ave no there there.

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                  I’m well aware who she is - but as I said, and you clearly failed to comprehend, she didn’t say what you think she did

                  You Ave no there there

                  I was joking about the literacy thing but…

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    Islam is the religion of terror.

    We need to send a firm message that what they believe has no place in our lives and we cannot be bullied.

    Muhammad likes to suck dick he was the gayest of the religious figures.