'We Are All Culpable': Matt Nelson Self-Immolates to Protest Israel's Gaza Onslaught | Common Dreams
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In a video, Nelson said he would set himself ablaze "to stop supplying Israel with the money and weapons it uses to imprison and murder innocent Palestinians" and "to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza."
  • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    710·
    3 months ago

    For reasons that should be obvious an individual protest, no matter how extreme, will never be a factor in foreign policy decisions.

        • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          3 months ago

          The true factor is that Israel is a solid foothold for the US in the Middle East long term.

          Well, that’s the excuse.

          Don’t absolve Biden and the US of our level of culpability by reducing us to followers led astray by Netanyahu

          Led astray? No. Enthusiastically complicit.