Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), a former member of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), dismissed the idea there are “innocent Palestinian civilians” in a debate on the House floor.
“I would encourage the other side to not so lightly throw around the idea of innocent Palestinian civilians, as frequently said,” Mast said on Wednesday. “I don’t think we would so lightly throw around the term ‘innocent Nazi civilians’ during World War II.”
Mast recently wore his IDF uniform on Capitol Hill, demonstrating his staunch support for Israel. “As the only member to serve with both the United States Army and the Israel Defense Forces, I will always stand with Israel,” he wrote on X in a post showing pictures of him in the uniform.
Mast made the comments about Palestinian civilians while the House was debating the Hamas International Financing Prevention Act, a bill that requires sanctions on alleged Hamas supporters. The bill requires presidential waivers to deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza and the West Bank, which will slow down deliveries of food, medicine, and other supplies to civilians.
The original version of the bill included a blanket exemption for humanitarian aid, but Mast added an amendment to require waivers. Mast made a similar argument about Palestinian civilians when adding the amendment to the bill during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing last month.
“Any assistance should be slowed down — any assistance,” Mast said. “Because I would challenge anybody in here to point to me, which Palestinian is Hamas, and which one is an innocent civilian? Which is the child that was poking other Israeli children?”
According to The Intercept, Mast was referring to a video that purportedly showed a Palestinian child poking an Israeli hostage in Gaza. “And which ones exactly are the innocent ones? … It should absolutely be every effort made to slow down any perceived assistance that’s going there.”
The Hamas International Financing Prevention Act passed the House in a vote of 363-46. Forty-five progressive Democrats voted no, and one Republican opposed the bill, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY).
What a load of projection from those acting like Nazis.
The ‘Sweet Boy with Curly Hair’ was Found, but Under the Rubble
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While Yusuf’s mother was preparing dinner their neighborhood came under heavy shelling. Israeli missiles penetrated the house, killing Yusuf.
“My sister’s house has four floors. My sister, her husband, and their children live on the third floor. The Israeli missile penetrated the fourth floor, where my sister’s husband’s brother lives, and it also penetrated the third floor, where my sister’s home is located, causing a powerful explosion,” Raghad explained.
The ceiling of their home collapsed on Yusuf. My sister searched for her sons and found one, but she couldn’t find little Yusuf,” Raghad said.
“After the arrival of the civil defense teams, they found my sister and her son. She told them that her son Yusuf was trapped inside. They searched tirelessly and finally found him under the rubble. They quickly took him to Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis city.”
‘His Hair was Curly and Sweet’
A video of a Palestinian woman with a pale face covered in dust and dirt, carrying a bag on her back, accompanied by a doctor in green medical attire, and a young child searching for his brother at Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis city went viral on countless news channels and social media platforms.
The mother cried out and asked everyone in the hospital about her son, “His hair is curly and sweet,” but to no avail, she couldn’t find Yusuf.
Yusuf’s mother and father, who was caring for patients at the time, searched for their child among many wounded who were lying on the floor of the hospital. Yusuf’s father was the first to identify his son among the victims. Video footage showed his unwavering composure, while his wife and other son broke down.
Yusuf’s grandmother, Hajja Aida Abdel Aziz, said that after finding Yusuf, “Yusuf’s mother tried to see him, but the hospital staff prevented her. They wanted her to remember him in his beautiful image, to always have in her mind Yusuf, the sweet, curly-haired boy, before his body was disfigured by the Israeli missiles.”
Hajja Aida added, “Yusuf’s little brother clung to his father, crying, ‘I want Yusuf, I want to see him,’ and he continues to weep to this day, as he had never experienced Yusuf’s absence for even a moment. How will he ever endure his eternal absence?”
Yusuf’s grandmother remembered the child saying, “Yusuf loved drawing and always sent his drawings to me, asking me to visit Gaza. He dreamed of becoming an engineer, but now he has earned his martyrdom, and my daughter is honored to be the mother of a martyr.”
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/the-sweet-boy-with-curly-hair-was-found-but-under-the-rubble/
It’s heartbreaking … and it’s happening every ten minutes … and it’s being paid for in part by us …
Indeed..very heartbreaking. A new Nuremburg trials needs to be enabled. Now
You aren’t paying for this. Your tax dollars are being misused by others to fund it.
If you had the choice, I firmly believe your money would not be any part of this, Cali.
Reading Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience, it’s clear that we need to take the next step and actively not allow the govt to misuse our taxes by withholding them. However, this govt has shown its vindictiveness and cruelty to its own citizens before and we all have responsibilities.
You / we can only do what we can, send messages in our own way as individuals, even if a critical mass is never achieved. Then at least we know we tried.
The Goon Squad makes sure taxes are collected. But we can sit on our hands and stay silent for national anthems, and “decline to participate” in other nationalist stunts.
Most of us file a tax return to claw back what’s ours from the US War Machine.
When the going gets tough…
It’s being financed primarily by us. The world knows this. We will suffer consequences.
The dregs of humanity reside in both US houses and the Israeli government. This clown should be forced to endure what Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing…throw the worthless Graham in the mix also.
Well put!
and the Nikkster.
““I don’t think we would so lightly throw around the term ‘innocent Nazi civilians’ during World War II.””
My father-in-law was born in Berlin. In 1940.
Tonight, Rep. Mast (R-FL) can go (t)uck himself (in).
It is just such a f_cking ridiculous statement. It wasn’t innocent Nazi civilians … it was innocent GERMAN civilians.
But so revealing: to a committed warmongering militarist like this fool, there are only enemies and friends. Pray that you are not considered an enemy, because there will be no mercy.
The author, Kurt Vonnegut, survived the fire bombing of Dresden by seeking shelter in a meat locker in a slave camp. When he came out he saw, quote: “they burned the whole d*mn town down”. Unquote. So it goes.
If this doesn’t demonstrate the Israeli influence in “dual citizenship Israeli/American” I don’t know what will! I’m quickly losing patience with these GOP and Democrat WHORES who carry water for an apartheid/occupier nation like Israel! Rep. Mast should know full well WHY attacks like Hamas’ are even possible- Israeli abuse of Palestinians human rights! If the USA attacks a nation does this mean we are ALL responsible for deaths in that nation? For people whose job it is to be informed to enact legislations, Mast is either ignorant or just plain cold-hearted!
He’s an ideologue. Nothing else but their imbecilic narrative matters.
I THINK ANYONE THAT SAYS THERE ARE NO INNOCENTS IN GAZA IS IMBECILLIC!!
Children have no control over policy so must be considered innocent… Anyone too stupid to get that should not be able to buy, own, or use guns….. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HALF OF THOSE IN GAZA ARE CHILDREN
That’s exactly what I’m saying about that Rep. Mast ….I think you misunderstood my post. I apologize if it was unclear.
Like most of the most outrageous Zionists in DC, Mast is NOT Jewish https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/14/israels-govt-foreign-affairs-committee/. Not like any of that matters anymore. Under Nikki Haley’s definition of Anti-Semitism, Non-Jewish Zionists get to persecute Jewish people for being “Anti-Semitic” for daring to suggest that Palestinians are human beings. It’s 2019 Joker level clown world. . .
It’s like he thinks that was a good thing. Longing for the good old days of “killing them all and let gOD sort them out”.
Did that IED take his balls as well as his legs?
Of all the treacherous ***** in congress, I don’t think I’ve seen any **** as hard or as fast for Israel.
General MacArthur quote :
“The soldier, be he friend or foe, is charged with the protection of the weak and unarmed. It is the very essence and reason for his being. When he violates this sacred trust, he not only profanes his entire cult but threatens the very fabric of international society.”
BDS Floeida. All peaceful people emigrate ASAP.
Allied forces bombed most German cities to sinders during WWII for no military reason, and thereafter imposed a nationwide starvation program aimed to kill as many Germans as possible after the war regardless if they were Nazis or not. Is this what the U.S. and Israel have in store for the Palistinian people? And Oh by the way most “Nazis” were in that political party only because they had to be. In the end most were given amnesty because they were indeed innocent. Rep Mast makes a flagrent display of psychotic racism. He needs to be locked up, rather than allowed a seat in Congress.
What is with this dual citizen garbage anyways?
Exactly.
“Allied forces bombed most German cities to sinders during WWII for no military reason” Three reasons.
The first they were hoping the Germans would quit supporting the Nazis. That did not work.
The second was to forced Germans to divert fighters and the dual purpose 88s away from the land battles. That worked.
The third reasons was to destroyed factories in the towns. That was had some success until the Germans moved them unground.
“…they were hoping the Germans would quit supporting the Nazis.” Didn’t matter who “supported” what. When a country’s “Fuhrer” declares himself Supreme Law Lord (after already being a “dictator”), during the World War being fought tooth and nail close nearby, there’s nothing much a population can do. No matter how desirable it may be, expecting a population to “overthrow the government” in a situation like that especially, is quite unrealistic, and is merely a propaganda tool. It hardly ever works, as is even today shown with Iran.
Throw this POS out of our country !
Which country would that be?
The United States of Israel of course.
AKA The United States of Atrocity (I borrowed that from another poster). Very appropriate, I should say.
I don’t know, Knapp… Take a guess.
I’m not going to try to guess what country you’re from.
Hell, I’m not even going to try to guess what planet you’re from.
Not sure where you are from, but I believe Justin Raimondo would have nothing to do with you
I knew Justin Raimondo for years, but was only privileged to meet him in person once.
Toward the end of his life, we did argue. But not about foreign policy issues. He thought I was too lenient as a moderator. In fact, he eventually just had commenting turned off on his own columns.
That’s interesting !
He was an interesting guy. I was turned on to Antiwar.com as soon as it launched because it partnered with another site I worked for (the Henry Hazlitt Foundation). I’ve always considered Raimondo one of the great ones, especially after his biography of Rothbard came out, and was proud to eventually be allowed to work with Antiwar.com itself.
You mean “Israel’s country”?
the new speaker of the house guy suggested yesterday that the US should “be prepared to bring back the military draft in order to better assist Israel”.
ok good luck with that uncle sam, today’s youths are not peaceful hippies and they will not go quietly.
The man has already established his credentials. Wonder why he feels compelled to continue?
Warmonger. Enforcer of Caesar’s Empire. And now wants to FORCE other Americans to Serve, Obey and Kill other human beings for their BIPARTISAN, government ,OTHER GOVERNMENTS and the GLOBALIST MIC…. His Idolotry of Government AND ANOTHER GOVERNMENT is sad and disgusting..and quite unpatriotic…ie John Quincy Adams speech in 1821……..
The other side could use the same argument.
“How dare anyone accuse people of dual loyalty!!??”
And there you have it.
“Dual loyalty” is a misnomer if there ever was one. Though, “Dual”, implying “two”, in this case usually means TWICE as loyal to the Israeli State as to their own country of residence. 😉
I prefer “Israel Firster.”
Yeah, because supporting an anti-terrorism and counter-genocide response that takes every reasonable measure to reduce if not prevent civilian casualties would definitely be putting Israeli interests before U.S. interests (spoiler alert – the U.S. also has interests in countering genocidal terrorist Iranian proxies in the region, and as such the morality and reasonableness of the support is mutually beneficial for both parties).
Support for Israel undermines America’s standing in the world.
End US aid to Israel!
Fuck off . you shitty blood soaked apologist for mass murder!
The only forces committing genocide or planning to commit genocide are the IDF.
Your lies are so horribly terribly evil.
Are you even humnan? I don’t think so.
You are filth. Israeli firster filth.
Listen, individual behind this online internet account, I’m getting tired of this. Assuming you’d be a rational adult and not some immature 13-year old who’d think they’d be soo edgy and so smart (what else am I supposed to make of your terrible musical/messaging choice), you haven’t been able to prove your “points” and have consistently been unable to. And no, this will continue to be true no matter how many times you attempt to list some 1940’s politician falling short of contemporary political standards 20 years before the U.S. civil-rights movement ended, something that has not and would not count as “evidence”. And I’m getting tired of you insinuating that I would be responsible for the civilian casualties Hamas has been deliberately attempting to cause by hiding their weapons, personnel and equipment near them, almost always either without consent or under coercion, and then after purposefully putting them in clear and consistent danger attempting to use some of the unfortunate consequences they have specifically been attempting to create and bear full responsibility for to attempt to control both the public and the media. You quite literally “cheered-on” the deaths of innocent IDF soldiers while promoting “Palestinian resistance”, yet you seem unable to grasp what these concepts actually mean. Maybe if you’d ever have actually met people in government, worked with people in government, you’d understand that sometimes authority figures are simply trying to make the best decision in an unfortunate situation. But I’m sure you’d rather just post some half-baked attempted insult than take a second to reflect on what you’d actually be spending your time supporting, and what would actually occur if it were to ever succeed. After all, for all the time you spend attempting to pillory Netanyahu, you never were able to answer in the aftermath of the October 7th terrorist and genocidal attacks what you would have done differently. That, and I have a huge secret to tell you. This whole time, dream joe “world zionist conspiracy” hill, I never was a “humnan”. I have been a member of the “human” race, spreading tolerance and supporting peace throughout the world. Sometimes this can mean eliminating those who’d stand in the way of those goals. But “complexity” and your unsupported and false political assertions don’t seem to mix well together, with you being unable to process that “Palestinian” land claims are absolutely irrelevant, with anyone or any movement who’d ever attempt to use violence to achieve them immediately ceasing to be a legitimate political entity. In reality, even if they were true, they’d go with Russia historically having a right to the territory of “Poland” and “Tibet” absolutely not being a part of China. All of these things are true, yet they’re not whats currently occurring in the modern nation-state system, so at a certain point its time to move and realize no-one cares. The people in those places move on and don’t spend generations attempting to plan revenge and commit atrocities against others, as actual adults can recognize that all land claims are ultimately artificial anyways. If you can’t recognize even this, you’ll always be a naive immature child mentally no matter your biological or perceived age, and no amount of online internet forum posting as a form of projection will ever be able to change that. Your “logic” is the definition of an immature edgy teenager, and the world be a terrible dangerous place if anyone actually listened to your objectively isolated “comments”. For example, someone could go: Ooooh, the U.S. government made mistakes in its Syria policy, I’m going to commit terrorism and acts of genocide against the civilian population and they would be objectively fine in your warped “book”, because any military personnel who would defend innocent civilians from being unfairly killed would “deserve it” and the “oppressed” would have a right to “retaliate” while the “oppressors” wouldn’t or some garbage, so if he had even a hint of “Syrian” ancestry according to the incredibly distorted and warped morality you have attempted to establish every American civilian should just lie down and accept death. Because you’ve said you’re against “group-punishment”, yet what else would “Palestinian resistance” be about? And yes, I am getting so, so tired of this.
Muhammad Rehan Saeed, a local resident who helped organise the rally, told the World Socialist Web Site, “We’re here to say to Wes Streeting: We’ve got the names of all the dead here in front of us, we’ve printed them out. This is only 6,747 dead. The latest figure is 11,000.”
Pointing to a metres-long banner listing the names of those killed by Israel in just nineteen days, Mahammad explained, “We’ve got the names of the babies and the kids killed, in red at the top, going almost to the halfway point. We’ve got the names of the pensioners killed, in purple towards the bottom. And we’ve had to use size 7 font, three columns on each page. That’s the level of atrocities we are talking about here.
“We’ve had more people killed in nineteen days than the Ukraine war has had in two years. We’ve had more people killed than the Srebrenica genocide. We’re here to say no! Wes Streeting is supporting this.”
Your support for the genocide in Gaza is utterly inhuman and evil.
Every one of those individuals was killed by the terrorist and genocidal organization known as Hamas attempting to conceal their weapons, personnel and equipment near civilians, almost always completed either without consent or under coercion, and then after purposefully putting them in clear and consistent danger attempting to use some of the unfortunate consequences they have specifically been attempting to create and bear full responsibility for in an attempt to control both the public and the media. None of them would ever be the fault of Israeli state, with the Israeli state and the Israeli Defense Forces taking every reasonable measure to prevent civilian casualties. Would you need to literally see it? https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8816cc11a27a2f8ce52a6d6f5f08ae471e351cde2083fe303288b63591183197.jpg
According to your lies, nothing is ever Israel’s fault.
Israel’s bombardment of Gaza has killed over 10,000. that’s Israel’s fault.
You’re just like these murderous pigs:
Only last week, dozens of prominent Israeli rabbis had already assured Israeli leaders that they have a right to bomb al-Shifa’ hospital in Gaza, and this week’s letter signed by “Doctors for the Rights of IDF Soldiers” urges the bombing of any and every hospital in Gaza.
The letter states, in no uncertain terms, that due to suspicion of “terrorist activity,” the hospitals are “a legitimate target for annihilation.” They claim that “ambulances that are evacuating patients to the south in order to be treated elsewhere are at their disposal.” It does not mention that these ambulances, too, are being bombed by Israel, or that the south is also being mercilessly pummeled.
The world has no time for your ridiculously self-righteous and tired Zionist lies.
The IDF are the murderous terrorists and you are an apologist for ethnic cleansing.
Palestinian resistance is a just effort to reclaim land stolen by the Zionist butchers.
“And yes, I am getting so, so tired of this.” Too bad. I didn’t ask you to jump into this thread.
Go cry somewhere else, Zionist.
The only actual genocide occurring is the “Palestinian resistance” you keep pushing. Given your inability to recognize that basic fact after an overwhelming amount of evidence has been provided verifying it, no one is under any obligation to ask you for much of anything, if they ever would have in the first place. In fact, you seem to fit the stereotype you’ve attempted to assign to me much better, with you quite literally “cheering on” the deaths of innocent individuals attempting to protect their protecting their friends, families, relatives and loved ones from being massacred at concerts, in bunkers, in their own homes by rockets and terrorists with automatic rifles. So if you actually want to be a functional adult, grow up and move on.
The IDF soldiers are not innocents.
They are aggressive invaders.. I hope they are killed by the thousands, which would be justice for their war crimes.
“So if you actually want to be a functional adult, grow up and move on.”
LOL. There’s nothing adult about your lying attempts to justify mass murder. pig.
There you go again, seemingly committed to come off with the same level of emotional maturity and comprehension ability of the try-hard “edgy” 13 year-old I mentioned earlier. Keep making baseless claims and attempted insults, because after approximately 200 comments that certainly appears to be all you have, while never even approaching being able to actually properly support your main assertions, such as why Israel or the IDF would be “terrorists” or how they would magically lose the right to justified legitimate self-defense that takes every reasonable measure to reduce civilian casualties. Because if you truly can’t realize it, others will, and eventually your ability to willingly attempt to justify terrorism and acts of genocide might backfire spectacularly when you’d least expect it.
I don’t accept psychological criticism from psychopathic supporters of mass murder. Zionist.
I’m not justifying terror. You are by justifying Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza.
I think that Zionism often manifests as serious mental illness. That would explain your OCD regarding false claims that Israel has not targeted civilians.
Sorry killer, but the casualty figures prove you to be a liar defending the slaughter of helpless civilians, boldly proclaiming the innocence of the IDF bombers & baby killers! Israel does everything it accuses Hamas of times 10.
No, you are by implying Israel’s response would be illegitimate and directly supporting the death of its defense forces attempting to stop such incredibly unfortunate acts from occurring. But because I’m getting tired of consistently proving that Israel would not target civilians through well-researched and supported sources, here’s a new one: prove Israel would be deliberately attempting what you’d claim. And no, casualties caused by Hamas unfortunately deliberately hiding their weapons, personnel and equipment in civilian areas oftentimes through either coercion or without consent in order to influence the media and the general world is not actual evidence. You appear to be starting to show real weakness in your tired attacks against Israel at this point, especially given the frequency and consistency in which you increasingly seem to resort to unsubstantiated claims and unproven allegations. Must be getting real hard to try to prove your “points” when the truth itself is against you.
The numbers speak for themselves
Your convoluted propaganda in no way justifies the slaughter occurring in Gaza.
Israel’s war crimes will not be forgotten by the world.
Can you stop being recursive on “points” I’ve already more than disproven. The world would have nothing to “forget” given the almost complete absence of actual “war-crimes” and the isolated incidents subsequently being dealt with by the IDF.
Every one of those individuals was killed by the terrorist and genocidal organization known as Hamas attempting to conceal their weapons, personnel and equipment near civilians, almost always completed either without consent or under coercion, and then after purposefully putting them in clear and consistent danger attempting to use some of the unfortunate consequences they have specifically been attempting to create and bear full responsibility for in an attempt to control both the public and the media. None of them would ever be the fault of the Israeli state, with the Israeli state and the Israeli Defense Forces taking every reasonable measure to prevent civilian casualties.
“Can you stop being recursive on “points” I’ve already more than disproven.”
Go to hell, you filthy liar. You’ve disproven nothing and all you do is repeat the same tired lies.
You claim the killing of 10,000 civilians including 4000 children is self-defense.
You are an utterly vile, immoral apologist for mass murder.
Israel is committing war crimes. The IDF are war criminals. It is only natural and human to hope that such war criminals are killed by Gaza’s defenders before they can kill more innocents.
The world will not forget Israel’s crimes!
That’s great. There you go again actually proving my points by being unable to actually disprove them and repeating the same “information” I’ve already addressed.
The supposed lack of proof is all in your bigoted and deluded mind.
Free Palestine!
You say as you are consistently unable to provide it, even within this “response” specifically calling it out. Whether you’d realize it or not, that actually proves a lot more than the hollow vacant statement you’ve chosen to add to the end of it.
Arguing with someone pathologically dishonest like you is not really possible.
All you do is lie.
So that’s seriously something your now attempting: “Oh, you don’t understand, its simply because your so extremely wrong that I’m unable to actually prove you would be”. You do realize as someone with well-supported logic and evidence that would clearly support their stances I could very clearly make a similar “argument” in response to you. But I guess I’d just be “lying”, something you know is true by you never being able to actually “prove” it.
Yes you’re simply lying. You never offer evidence. You us “proof by assertion” as our modus operandi.
You’re an evil iar.
Except no. Israel absolutely takes every reasonable measure to reduce if not eliminate civilian casualties, something once again proven today when they agreed to 4-hour signaled humanitarian pauses in the conflict attempting to do just that (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israel-agrees-to-daily-4-hour-humanitarian-pauses-in-northern-gaza-fighting/ar-AA1jF9QT). This would weaken them militarily and appears to be done solely for humanitarian reasons, as such pointing out the lack of evidence and support for your attempted assertions.
Your lies are not evidence. They are unsupported and unsupportable assertions endlessly repeated.
Biden forced the measly 4 hour break onto Netanyahu, you filthy liar.
Israel is spiraling down into fascism:
Knesset member Ofer Cassif:
“It is forbidden to demonstrate and protest against the war. The “only democracy in the Middle East” forbids demonstrations, of both Arab and Jewish citizens — not in support of Hamas, perish the thought — but to oppose the war or simply express humane sympathy for the innocent civilians of Gaza. They are not allowed to do so. Yesterday, there was an attempt by my friends and comrades in Haifa, in the north of Israel, to demonstrate. It was brutally disbanded by the police who beat them and arrested some of them. Right now, it is a fascist regime, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
It is forbidden to express sympathy for the people of Gaza. It’s forbidden to express pain for the kids in Gaza being killed. It’s forbidden to object to the war on social media. People have been fired from their workplaces for doing so. Students have been suspended from their colleges and universities. We’re not talking about one or two people; we’re talking about over 100 and perhaps hundreds. So this is a part of the strategy, as the main victims of the repression are Palestinian citizens.
It’s also true that there are many Jews this is affecting as well. A friend of mine, just today, announced that he was fired from a school he was teaching in because he wrote an objection to the war on Facebook. But the main victims are Palestinians. The state wants them to be silent. The state wants them to bow on their knees in order to live, not to be citizens but subjects. This is part of the subjugation plan.
The worst part I left for the end. It is now legitimate to kill and shoot Palestinian citizens as well as democratic or leftist Jews, as far as the public discourse is concerned. It is not only the public discourse, as the police have turned into a private militia of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
One week ago, there were two demonstrations in Tel Aviv against the war. It was still allowed then. At one of them, the police beat some of the demonstrators, men and women who were 70-plus years old. And then another slightly bigger demonstration, a few hours afterwards, again in Tel Aviv, was viciously and violently attacked by bystanders. The police didn’t help the demonstrators and assisted those who attacked them.”
I support Palestine’s legitimate right to resist the blood soaked Zionist colonizers!
The leaders of the Western nations have soiled themselves with their support of Zionist butchery i Gaza..
The IDF are genocidal terrorists!
End US support of Israel!
So if HAMAS says there are no “innocent Israeli children” that’s considered proof they are terrorist fanatics and need to be destroyed; fair enough; that should also apply to odious imbeciles like Mast and any supporters he might have. F them all.
We’ve seen this before (“The only good Indian is a dead Indian), like Jackson, he’s stupid enough to say out loud what almost the entire US Congress and Exec. believe and act on.
ok i don’t know if this is valid or not so take it with a grain a salt;
Joe Rogan Experience podcast = a third of Hamas’ rockets actually land in Gaza.
whatever humanitarian aid that reaches actual Gaza is high-jacked by Hamas.
Hamas has total control of all Palestinian functions in Gaza.
Hamas is the governing entity in Gaza and has been since 2007. Most local governments have substantial control within their jurisdictions and Hamas clearly has at least as much as most.
I doubt that anyone, including Hamas, Israel, and the people of Gaza knows what percentage of rockets launched at Israel land in Gaza. I’d be very surprised if it has been anywhere near a third over the course of time rocket attacks have been carried out by various entities in Gaza. No doubt there was a higher percentage of misfires early on, when the rockets were fairly crude. There are several websites where attempts to quantify these things (by people with various views and loyalties) are published. Citations on Wiki articles are a good place to start.
First, it is sifted through by Israel, as it is currently being done, so as to slow the entry into Gaza. The rockets are a more improved variety,although still not guided like the Israeli rockets, by Israel and the U.S. aiding with logistics (maybe, because Israel has said it was not seeking accuracy, rather, it is seeking the most damage).
You turn to Joe Rogan for news? BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Really?
no. i merely saw a short clip on youtube.
i don’t turn to anybody specific for news.
because every “news” outlet has an agenda.
i see and/or read stuff and i formulate my own opinion.
And that includes unborn children?
mast is a nazi
The United State if Israel…!
Most every person in Israel serves in the military, does that make them innocent.
Human excrement representing our highest standards.
So, WTF, Israel is the 51st state now ?
No, we’re the fiftieth Israeli satellite.
Israeli/U.S. duel citizen = loyalty to Israel. Hollywood producer, Arnon Milcher, admitted to being a spy for Israel, against the U.S., was proud of it, stated he would do it again.
I don’t think he is a dual citizen. I know he isn’t Jewish, which makes sense. Jewish Americans do things like demanding ceasefires and viewing Palestinians as human beings. Not nearly as reliable supporters of Israel as the Christian fundamentalists like Mast and Speaker Johnson and his buddies at the creationist museum https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-johnson-young-earth-creationist_n_653adc81e4b0d69ae7068a0b/amp. These folks know that Israel must control all of gaza and the west bank to trigger the rapture and they aren’t about to let a few million Palestianins get in the way of God’s plan.
” Jewish Americans do things like demanding ceasefires and viewing Palestinians as human beings”
Some do, but a lot more back Israel’s mass murder.
Monster.
Add the US Congress to the occupied territories.
Mast isn’t even Jewish: “Mast, who is Christian, hadn’t followed Israel closely at the time, although he saw references on the news.” https://www.jns.org/brian-mast-proud-to-be-only-congressman-to-have-worn-us-army-and-idf-uniforms/
Just a pandering ****.
Dangerously so.
So Since Israel declared war …. Mast is now a legitimate combatant and target.
“Israeli soldiers are hiding amongst civilians within the the US capitol”
So, I’m wondering if any of the 1400 Israelis killed on October 7th had a built-up hatred for Palestinians. I don’t think it would be a stretch to say at least some of them had listened to their hate filled government’s rhetoric over the years and have formed a less than admirable opinion of the “animals” or “cockroaches”. Maybe they were even the children who signed bombs that were destined for Gaza in previous wars between the IDF and Hamas (see below). Using this fucking idiot’s logic, that would mean that some of those victims on October 7th deserved to die.
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If you sign a bomb, your intention is to kill people as a non-military soldier…!
Not as kids. When we’re kids we innocently trust our elders. We haven’t experience to know when they are wrong.
The current actions by Israel, along with the lies, is a carbon copy, on steroids, of Cast Lead. Does anyone remember? Was Israel punished? How about Protective Edge? Same.
It looks like the 1400 civilians killed is a distortion and an exaggeration.
It includes IDF and Israeli police who were combatants not civilians. It also includes the several hundred killed by “friendly fire” IOW by the IDF.
Well, mast is an extremist politician, as such he is a publicity hound without ethics and morality. I would guess he is also without a heart and soul.
The anti civilizational courses and anti gentile teachings the IDF trainees undergo have now been imported to American shore.
Like Anthony Blinken he openly declares that his loyalty lies with another country, and so should not be allowed to hold political office in the U.S.
Well, at least this psychopath Brian Mast has lived there. For Blinken it was an open declaration of racial loyalty. “As a Jew I stand with Israel.”
All over Israeli society now, in the media and social forums, they talk like Brian Mast does – all Palestinians are the target, their Gaza Strip must be destroyed, and the West Bank too. The defence minister says, “Gaza will never be what it was before. We will destroy it all.”
The Israelis post to Palestinian hashtags, pictures of drinking water and electricity, to laugh at the Palestinians who are being deprived of water to drink. They make videos where they dress up as Palestinians to mock them as “whining.”
When are the U.S. media bosses going to call this “hate”? Shouldn’t they-
Oh, I forgot….
There aren’t any “former” members of the IDF.
POS ALERT… POS ALERT… POS ALERT…. POS ALERT
“PALESTINIAN CHILDREN ARE’N INNOCENT” BUT THE IDF WHO SLAUGHTER THEM ACTUALLY ARE…!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT ELSE WOULD ONE EXPECT FROM AN APARTHEID STATE THAT HAVE TRIALS FOR PALESTINIAN CHILDREN IN MILITARY COURTS. YET THEY CLAIM THEY ARE NOT AN APARTHEID STATE!!!!!!
and this Trained to Kill FOR ANOTHER GOVERNMENT!!! is now a Congressman?????????? WTF…. No Vetting??? No outrage from the Constituents of that District? No opposition to this AWFUL baggage???? GOP and this District deserve a Motion for Summary Judgement WITH PREJUDICE against them…this is disgusting
Apply the same standard the other way I expect maybe there are also no innocent Israelis either.
Those who can’t learn lessons of history should not try to teach it. Otherwise, they remove all doubt that they, themselves, are racist genocidal fools.
Traitor.
“Dual loyalties” is such a misnomer for traitors like this guy.
Wow, Floridians elected a true-blue fascist this time. So, a 2-year-old toddlers blown to bits by the israeli fascists isn’t an innocent Palestinian? His IDF training is blatantly showing. They pound Muslim hatred into their troops because their main purpose till now has been to kill Palestinian teens throwing rocks. All common human decency has been purged from them, if there ever was any in the first place. The question is, how did this Muslim-hater get elected?
I doubt he got any “IDF training.” He volunteered with IDF during one month in 2015, “packing medical kits and moving supplies” in Tel Aviv.
LOL, a REMF.
For the IDF, yes, a rear-echelon motherf*cker.
But he had an excuse — he’d already had his legs blown off in Afghanistan while in the US Army.
I knew that from somewhere, and just assumed it meant he was infantry. Turns out he was explosive ordnance disposal.
Anyone who’s been around the EOD guys knows they are largely bug-eyed crazies.
One time out at 29 Palms, we got a round stuck in an 81mm mortar tube. We took all the textbook steps for getting it out, and when those failed we carefully put it in the dud pit and called EOD. A little while later, a pickup truck came bouncing down the road. The guy got out, asked where the barrel was. When we showed him, he picked it up by the bottom end and slammed the open end on the deck three or four times. “Yep, it’s stuck.” Then he got back in the truck, set the barrel down ON HIS LAP, and took off.
Jesus H. Christ, that’s bonkers.
Warmonger and Enforcer of Caesar’s Empire…here AND “over there”…foul and sad……says a lot about his ignorant and stupid District and its County Party….to elect this foul imperialist….
Diabolical thinking but expected since the US and UK never repented from the excessive civilian deaths they unleashed from the air in WW2 – including the use of WMD.
Or the mass killing in Southeast Asia and Iraq and Afghanistan and the agitprop and military support that is killing millions from Ukraine to Syria to Gaza to much of Africa.
We need national repentance for all the civilian killing we have been doing/supporting/financing for over 80 years.
There is an elephant in the room. If the interests of Israel collide with the interests of the U.S., I wonder where Congressman Mast’s loyalties lie.
Is this person for real? Does he have a scantiest of ideas that US has the Constitution, treaties, obligations? We may not have reached Caligula’s level of respect for lawmakers by appointing a horse to Senate. But getting close.
““Global Day of Rage my ass.”
That sounds kinda kinky, fella.