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Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum

A suspect is in custody after shooting dead two Israeli embassy staff outside a Jewish museum in Washington on Wednesday night.

The gunman, named by police as Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, approached a group of four people leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum and opened fire, killing Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.

Metropolitan police chief Pamela Smith said the shooter had been pacing outside the museum, which is steps away from the FBI’s field office, before the shooting.

After killing the pair, who officials said were a couple, he walked inside, where event security detained him. The suspect yelled: “Free, free Palestine,” after he was arrested, police said.

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[–] andybytes@programming.dev 12 points 18 hours ago

So, there's a lot of things happening in Gaza other than what's on the nose. Like starvation can cause neurological issues in the brain, in the body. It can even make your hair turn gray. All the stress. During World War I, soldiers came back with a thing called shell shock, and they would just constantly shake all the time. The kids in Gaza are showing symptoms of shell shock. So I could care less about two people getting killed.

[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 64 points 1 day ago (17 children)

Genuinely awful for these two and their families, but the same can be said for ~53,000 dead Palestinians and the rest who are actively starving to death in a Israeli-made famine while aid rots onboard trucks across the border. Both acts are deliberate, and both were avoidable.

And while they were both working for the current extremists in power atm via the diplomatic service, they were a lot more moderate too:

Lischinsky “I’m an ardent believer in the vision that was outlined in the Abraham Accords and believe that expanding the circle of peace with our Arab neighbours and pursuing regional cooperation is in the best interest of the state of Israel and the Middle East as a whole. To this end, I advocate for interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding.”

Milgrim organised visits and missions to Israel. She was also a volunteer at Tech2Peace, an advocacy group training young Palestinians and Israelis and promoting dialogue between them.

Tech2Peace said Milgrim was an active volunteer who “brought people together with empathy and purpose”.

[–] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 60 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I mean also.....

"In his final post on social media hours before the attack, Lischinsky had shared a post from the Israeli ambassador, Amir Weissbrod, accusing UN officials of engaging in “blood libel” over claims that 14,000 children faced starvation in Gaza."

Not saying they deserved any violence, but even once moderate Israelis have been driven pretty far right in the last couple years. Accusations of blood libel while the state is actively starving children doesn't exactly seem to be promoting any positive dialogue.

[–] Milk_Sheikh@lemm.ee 34 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeeeesh, hadn’t seen that reporting…

It’s unbelievably disappointing to see over and over again that Israelis are broadly okay with the death and destruction in Gaza, when a little over a generation ago they were on the cusp of a genuine two-state solution. And now it’s an ethnostate that practices apartheid, and it’s okay because “Bibi keeps us safe”. Almost as if nothing else matters.

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[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Israel is now the primary driver of antisemitism throughout the world.

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Technically the genocide is antisemitic, because Palestinians are semitic.

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[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 114 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Israel makes Jewish people around the world less safe when it claimed it would do the opposite.

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[–] glimse@lemmy.world 119 points 1 day ago (36 children)

It sucks that more people died. It also sucks that I feel so.....indifferent about this one.

How many Israelis have to die before they stop killing Palestinians? What's two lives compared to the hundreds ended daily in Gaza? It's hard to be sad.

These people probably weren't evil. At worst, they were complicit after being fed a lifetime of propaganda. And nothing will change because of this so there's no silver lining. It's hard to be happy.

If I feel anything, it's dread at how the story will be spun. But even then...whatever happens isn't going to be the worse than what's already happening.

So it's hard to care at all. And that's the sad part for me.

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 day ago (4 children)
[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You're badly underestimating the scale of some of the post WWII genocides. The Khemer Rouge potentially killed more people than the total population of Gaza for example...

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