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U.S. Warns A Gaza Ceasefire Would Only Benefit Humanity (www.theonion.com)
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“We know there are voices across the world calling for a ceasefire, but what everyone needs to understand is that the only people who stand to gain from halting the bombing campaign are people who deeply value human life,”

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[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Funny-sad-real.

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 19 points 1 year ago

“You honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Few people ever cried more than once, if you’d used that up, you laughed.”

—Michael David Herr, Dispatches (1977) (writing for Esquire during Vietnam War)