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Hamas and the GOP are both terrorist groups — it's just a matter of degree

www.salon.com Hamas and the GOP are both terrorist groups — it's just a matter of degree

Most Americans understand the truth about Donald Trump and his followers: They're deranged, violent and dangerous

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Israel is an apartheid state

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- Doesn't change that Hamas is a terrorist group. They're literal militarized islamofascists.
  
  These are the MENA equivalent of if the OneSixers were composed entirely of paramilitary hate groups.
  
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  It's almost like, for once, both sides are bad for real.
  
  The Israeli government and Hamas are both terrorist forces, and the people among their civilizations (at least those that do not support them) deserve better than them
  
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  Middle East is such a clusterfuck tbh. Mfers are wasting their potential to have a union like EU.
  
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- Two things can be true at once.
  
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- Whataboutism at its finest.
  
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- To protect the most discriminated ethnic group on earth.
  
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  You really, really missed an opportunity to make a Pokemon reference.
  
  To protect the Jews from devastation
  
  To unite all people within their nation
  
  To defend the virtues of truth and love
  
  To bring down rockets from the skies above
  
  I'm downvoting you and I hope you get buried in downvotes.
  
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  Shhh! You've got to let them pretend they aren't antisemitic.
  
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Israel's apartheid regime is terrorism

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- They're basically committing blood libel by lying about decapitated babies. Their settlers paint the star of David on Palestinian homes to intimidate them into leaving the way Germans or Americans would paint swastikas on the homes of Jews. It's beyond terrorism, Palestine has no exit route and no endgame. Israel is the fourth reich.
  
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- yeah, but that wasn't the Topic here?
  
  i swear to god, why is the go-to answer in these Topics always "but what about x?!"
  
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  Why are you bringing up X, formerly known as Twitter?
  
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  The headline is framed to make us forget Israel and the daily humanitarian abuses it commits by using the "GOP==bad" duopoly logic to reinforce the liberal readership's worldview.
  
  If Hamas use terror, if the GOP uses terror, then what of Israel? Is apartheid not a form of terrorism? Was Jim Crow not a form of terrorism?
  
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It's just a matter of location*

FTFY

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- So is the Likud.
  
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- 35°E or 81°W
  
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so is the israeli government

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- And their supporters
  
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it's like the circle of life gop funds israel who funds hamas whose actions drive fear fundraising to the gop

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GOP are deranged, violent and dangerous. Don't join them by making bullshit statements. The GOP is not a terrorist group, and there are enough international terrorist groups around to make it worth it to not devalue the term.

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- https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/26/72/75/22785880/4/rawImage.jpg
  
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Americans on the internet always trying to make everything about their internal politics

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Seems like we are all guilty to some degree.

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Didn’t read the article. Probably even agree with it. But what a conflation of ideologies. It’s like someone started their doctoral thesis and switched midstream. Maybe Likud and the GOP would be better.

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There's a reason why Evangelical groups this week are making a big new push on the Republican Party to promote politicians that are as massively pro-Israel as possible.

They are salivating for the apocalypse to happen.

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Comparing the GOP to Hamas.. wow, you idiots really have gone off the deep end...

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- "Slow the testing down, please."
  
  Trump should he in the fucking Hague.
  
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- Seriously this is one of the stupidest takes I've seen lately, and I've seen a lot of stupid takes this week.
  
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