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DC Shooter's 71 year old neighbor interviewed by the press, says the US president needs to tell Israel to get the heck out of Gaza (hexbear.net)

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Old Man: We have 2 people dead in DC. We have 50,000 dead in Gaza. And, how many children starved to death last night? In 1956, Israel invaded Sinai. They invaded Gaza. The United States president at the time, Dwight Eisenhower, put his foot down and he told the French and the British get the heck out of the Suez Canal, and he told Israel to get the heck out of Sinai and out of Gaza. Now, where would we be today if we had a president that could have said that 2 years ago?

Reporter 1: Can you describe again the Elias personality that you met?

Old Man: Quiet and friendly. Quiet and friendly. Yeah. Yeah.

Reporter 2: What's your age if you don't mind?

Old Man: 71. Yeah. I'm the guy with all the with all the signs in the window.

Reporter 1: What do you hope happens next?

Old Man: Ceasefire. No more deaths. No more deaths in DC. No more deaths in Gaza.

Reporter 1: What about with your neighbor?

Old Man: I don't know.

Reporter 3: If you could say something to him right now, what would you want to communicate to him? What would you have said, if you like you said earlier, could talk to him?

Old Man: I would have repeated, what I've already said, "Guns and bombs are not going to end this genocide."

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[–] turtle@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I've been hearing these last couple of days that there appears to be a shift in how the mainstream media is covering this. I just saw that the BBC apparently grilled the Israeli ambassador in London about all the deaths. Perhaps the media is finally trying to manufacture consent for something good for once? Anyway, I think multitudes of kids dying from starvation may finally be the last straw that breaks the camel's back. Blowing them up to smithereens may have had some excuse like, "oh, we meant to blow up the bad guys and they were at the wrong place at the wrong time," but starvation is so deliberate that it will be much harder to make up any kind of excuse.

Edit: on re-reading this, I realized that I should have made the point that instead of manufacturing consent it would be accepting consent, since I believe that the majority of the public has already felt this way for a long time now, so no need to manufacture anything except for the hardliners.

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