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[-] MarmaladeMermaid@lemm.ee 56 points 1 year ago

The air strikes are also not good for them.

[-] araneae@beehaw.org 38 points 1 year ago

Yes but has anyone asked the babies to condemn the actions of Hamas? Israel has a right to defend herself from terrorism babies.

Fuck all of you to death that make this happen and perpetuate this.

[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago

WELL WELL WELL

FIRST AS FARCE, SECOND AS TRAGEDY I GUESS

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

The Nayirah testimony was false testimony given before the United States Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990, by a 15-year-old girl who was publicly identified at the time by her first name, Nayirah. The testimony was widely publicized and was cited numerous times by U.S. senators and President George H. W. Bush in their rationale to support Kuwait in the Gulf War.

In 1992, it was revealed that Nayirah's last name was Al-Ṣabaḥ (Arabic: نيرة الصباح) and that she was the daughter of Saud Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Furthermore, it was revealed that her testimony was organized as part of the Citizens for a Free Kuwait public relations campaign, which was run by the American public relations firm Hill & Knowlton for the Kuwaiti Government. Following this, al-Sabah's testimony has come to be regarded as a classic example of modern atrocity propaganda.[1][2]

In her testimony, Nayirah claimed that after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital, remove the incubators and leave the babies to die.

[-] The_Walkening@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

One of the big buttons on that story is that in 1993, Los Angeles County Hospital had like.. 2 incubators.

[-] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

Not like the USA has a great history of good health care or infant mortality rates

[-] AernaLingus@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago
[-] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

D-Did I just learn something from a hexbear user?

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Shit, the right wing reddit refugees didn't sufficiently inoculate you from hexbear, your instinctive response should not have been to click on the link.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I'll never deny a Wikipedia link.

[-] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Okay, but in some cases Wikipedia can be pretty unreliable

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, but those are also fun to read. And usually have interesting Talk pages

[-] wombat@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

all palestinian violence against israel is self-defense.

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

In the West yeonmi-park, they cry wolf over their enemies' atrocities in order to make way for their allies' future ones...

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

They make up atrocities cause capitalism is efficient like that

Lmao yeah...

[-] knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 1 year ago

So the US is going to go into Gaza shock and awe style to liberate Gazans. Right?

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