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Four Pet Peeves with the Framing of the October 7th Attack

JL;DR SUMMARY Eliana Fishman critiques the way some Jews discuss the October 7th attack on Israel. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HamasJewish IdentityAmerican Jewish CommunityOctober 7th AttackPogromPolitical ViolenceHolocaust ComparisonsMilitary Vs. Civilian

Places mentioned

Israel
"Of the 1,139 Israelis and foreign nationals killed on October 7th, 373 were soldiers and 790 were civilians."
Gaza, Palestinian Territories
"Palestinians living in Gaza, have really, really good reasons to hate Israel that have absolutely nothing to do with Israels status as a Jewish state and absolutely everything to do with ethnic cleansing, decades of violence, 15+ years of siege, the Israeli military shooting fishermen who stray more than 5 miles from the coast, lack of economic opportunity, humanitarian disasters, routine dehumanization (literally referring to carpet-bombing Gaza as mowing the lawn) etc."
Argentina
"In 1976 between 1900 3000 Jews were killed or disappeared in Argentina as part of the junta."
United States
"But also really important was that the US was on the side of the junta, the Jews who were killed were communists, and the American Jewish community was focused on the struggle for Soviet Jewry, and didnt really care all that much about Jews in Latin America."

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