2mo ago

Two Israeli embassy staffers shot dead in Washington

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The shooting took place late Wednesday outside the Capital Jewish Museum, which was hosting an American Jewish Committee event at the time of the incident.

US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced the deaths in an X post, saying, “We are actively investigating and working to get more information to share.”

The suspect, identified as 30-year-old Elias Rodriquez of Chicago, Illinois, "chanted 'Free, free Palestine,’ while in custody," she added.

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2mo ago

Two Israeli embassy staffers shot dead in Washington

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The man who got shot had an active Twitter account. Very stand-up guy. Such a shame he got killed.
- a innocent fella, such a tragedy 😔 anyways....
- Ohnoanyways.gif
- Won't find me weeping for an active defender of genocide being put in the cemetary.
- I mean he’s still a civilian and it it’s still murder but yeah hard to feel sad about it
  
  He served in the IDF for three years before his current role. Now he worked diplomatically for the Apartheid to aid in ethnically cleansing all Palestinians.
  It is truly terrible that this person who dedicated his life to dispossessing and murdering Palestinians was killed.
shooter’s manifesto. this will be spun as some anti-semitic bs when its clearly a desperate last act given the crackdown on peaceful protests and our politician bribed enough by aipac not giving a fig about them even when public opinion is overwhelming against israel.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-israel-embassy-shooter-manifesto
no one deserves death for others actions but an israeli delegate is much more complicit than those helpless children and other innocents getting butchered everyday by israel.
these rich brats had a choice to be not part of the ongoing genocide or even make a stand. the children and families without water and food trapped in gaza have no choice other than to be target practice for idf scum
- Holy shit. This is insanely profound. Not dehumanizing his targets but acknowledging their humanity and therefore, their responsibility and the gravity of the thing he is about to do.
  This wasn't a raving mad man stabbing or shooting the nearest, most Jewish looking person, this seems to have been a targeted shooting.
Good. Hopeful more happens to zionist scum in the future.
They need to be afraid to walk the streets.
- Yeah, what we need to do is ask them nicely. Like 500 times. Hold more peaceful marches. Keep marching and marching and getting beaten up by the police and never ever get any sanctions on Israel. That is surely going to achieve things.
  
  That's irony because I think bully's are very afraid of getting hurt.
  
  Please don't murder anyone! I know the state is enacting violence on you everyday, but PLEASE for the love of god don't murder! Just take it please, sit still and take the violence. Let your mothers, fathers, neighbors, friends, sisters, and brothers be taken away by the state. Do nothing.
  Because not murdering has really helped our cause. What a joke.
  
  In a just world they would be prosecuted by a proper legal body. When that is impossible then it become necessary to at least consider the need for vigilante justice.
  
  2 less zionists doesn't hurt.
  
  Nah. It’s very easy to argue that murder is ethically wrong or unjustified but it certainly is effective.
  
  Yeah. Prisoners, on the other hand...
  
  What do you mean "our"? like "second minute hour"?
This is HORRIBLE! Doesn't he know you're ONLY allowed to Murder CHILDREN and BABIES otherwise you're ANTI SEMETIC!
They will spin this off for anti semitism. Nothing to do with genocide in Palestine. Thank God for whoever invented the cameras in cell phone that we could see the massacre around the world. Imagine how bad it was before smart phones were invented.
"waow waow waow waow waow"
"I am fighting an enemy squad who is known for beheading children, but I don't know which one of them slits throats, so I chose to simply not shoot any of them"
zionazis down
I'm very conflicted on this. On the one hand, it is a good thing when genocide collaborators die, that's two less to worry about, but on the other, this could serve as a catalyst for further Zionist crackdowns on free speech.
- I understand the catch 22 of it. But they are already doing crackdowns, and even without this, they have already planned more crackdowns. So it means that being afraid/concerned about potential crackdowns only really helps the Zionists/fascists. Just like the Dems always being concerned about how the Republicans will react makes them not actually accomplish anything ever. Never bothered to force things like Roe v Wade into official law when they had chances and just kept it as just an up in the air thing. There are very much times and places for trying "good faith" efforts. But they mean nothing and get stomped on if you already know the other side is "bad faith" only.
- They were already cracking down. Did you forget what happened to the student protests?
  
  Of course I haven't, that's what I'm referring to when I say further crackdowns. But cracking down is not a binary, and I think the cracking down worsening on account of these murders is a legitimate worry to have.
- They were going to crackdown anyway. There is no form of effective resistance to Israel that they would not respond to with escalating violence
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I know it makes me a terrible person. But I have trouble coming up with any response to this except "good. The time for bullshit words is over"
- They were judged under the standard they themselves espoused.
- They were very pro Trump. The kind of Israelis that celebrate the genocide.
I'll just leave this here
- And to think, there are people around here who accuse me of not being a "real" leftist. Who but a leftist would post a page from from a webcomic that's 90% text? Checkmate libs.
  
  AI summary:
  The excerpt from the graphic novel appears to express a deep moral conflict about judging the actions of others in high-stakes, life-and-death situations. The character, Alison, is reflecting on how her past idealism and desire for perfect solutions don't align with the messy, imperfect, and often desperate realities others face. She questions whether her criticism of others—such as Moonshadow, who uses violence for what she sees as justice—is truly about right and wrong, or about asserting her own moral authority.
  In the context of a political assassination, this excerpt could be interpreted as a meditation on the complexity of moral judgment in violent political acts. It does not condone violence but challenges the reader to understand the motivations behind desperate actions without reducing them to simple binaries of right or wrong. It critiques moral absolutism and invites reflection on privilege, urgency, and the cost of demanding perfect solutions from those in crisis.
  That said, the message is highly nuanced and can be interpreted differently depending on one's perspective. It's crucial to approach such discussions with sensitivity, especially when they involve real-world violence and loss of life.
I don't necessarily believe that civilians are legitimate targets, but these two men, the government they served, and the government of the country they were killed in, are all extremely firm believers that they are.
I don't celebrate their deaths and I wish this didn't happen but if they support the same thing happening to other noncombatants, I have a hard time seeing how this isn't karma.
Weak ass k/d ratio.
- A 2.0 is pretty good, no?
Come on guys not all holocaust supporters were bad, some of them were just normal people. /s
Adventurism sets back this movement of ours. This is what a revolutionary spirit without theory to back it up does. ADL is already using this as casus belli to silence pro-Palestine voices. CIA and Mossad are popping champagne bottles as we speak. And all they lost were two ultimately expendable Zionist bureaucrats. This is a fucking disaster.
- It would be if mass repression was not already in place from peaceful nonviolent protests.
  Cause and effect are being swapped around.
  
  You think there's no other place to go from here? Foreign uni students that have pro-Palestinian sentiments are easy targets for the fascist government. Wait until they start going after pro-Palestinian nationals on the grounds of being supportive of domestic terrorism. Why make it easy for them?
- From where has it been set back?
  
  At the most immediate level, law enforcement presence will be increased in the DC area. Indirectly, this will further propagate the rhetoric of the Israeli state that antizionism is antisemitism. They're already trying to spin this guy as a raging antisemite.
The staffers didn't deserve to die.
- These people did though!
  
  The people that made the decision to kill them deserve to die.
- fuck off, you are sympathizing with fucking hitler’s staffers. shut your dumb ass up
- They are part and parcel of the genocidal apparatus. I have no sympathy at all for them.
- One of them was found on twitter rabidly defending this genocide. They work at the embassy. They're defending this genocide as part of their job. They're directly part of trying to erase this genocide.
  So you think that only the people pulling the trigger deserve death but the people trying to cover it up don't? That's a remarkable viewpoint
  
  Yes? They deserve to be held accountable but even in a fair legal system they would not face the death penalty while those actually directly participating in or ordering war crimes would.
- You're right they didn't. Israel need to be seriously looking at the security they provide to their staff members.
  When you become a genocidal terror state you have to accept that people around the world may try to reciprocate your violence against government officials.
  
  They dont actually care that these people were killed. It gives them more credibility when they cry about antisemitism
  
  “Their government is doing bad things” is not justification to kill someone.
  Or do have a free pass to start gunning down every US and Chinese government employee now?
- god plainly disagrees
- Yeah they did lol. Thus always to Zionists
- Well you better bone up on your necromancy while the rest of us get the crabs out
- one served the IDF and continued to serve the goverment.
- They were cogs in the machine and no one forced them into that position. They got exactly what they deserved.
- People getting killed is obviously bad. But just to put this into perspective, how many people were killed in Gaza today? How many children? And yesterday, and the day before? Oh wait, we don't even have a full count because the monsters also murder journalists.
- Counterpoint
- https://xcancel.com/yaron_li
- Yes they did, and they were legitimate targets according to the standards they themselves espoused (as were their children and anyone living near to them.)

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