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Comment on In the Hamas/Israel war, why does Palestine have "hostages" but Israel has "prisoners"?

Hostages are victims. Prisoners are criminals. Calling a Palestinian a hostage makes you an anti-semite. Calling an Israeli a prisoner makes you an anti-semite. Being an anti-semite impacts profits. Hence the chips fall where they must.

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ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Prisoners also implies a minimum level of treatment that hostage doesn’t.

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- OurTragicUniverse@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Go read about how israel treats the Palestinian children it has in its prisons.
  
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little_hermit@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I love these social experiments. 👽 <– ain’t ever gonna visit this fucked up planet

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- FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  👽 <– ain’t ever gonna visit this fucked up planet
  
  I mean, we did nuke ourselves. multiple times over. we get our hands on an interstellar drive thingamadohickey and the first thing we’ll probably do with it, is turn it into a giant fucking kinetic-kill missile on an intersect course for wherever the fuck it came from. “return to sender”, with a gold record on it, just in case they wanna listen to ‘what a wonderful world’.
  
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  - little_hermit@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    They’ll probably incinerate our planet when the time is ‘right’. Just in case. 😏
    
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