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The Most American Thing That Has Ever Happened
A man set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington today. He said he did it in protest of the genocide in Gaza.
Independent journalist Talia Jane reports that she was able to obtain footage of the incident, which the unnamed man apparently recorded himself. Jane reports that the man said he is “an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force” and that he “will no longer be complicit in genocide.” After igniting he repeatedly yelled “Free Palestine.”
According to Jane, a police officer showed up pointing a gun at the man’s burning body; I guess that’s just what American cops do when they aren’t sure what to do. Someone who was actually trying to save the man reportedly yelled “I don’t need guns, I need fire extinguishers!”
This just might be the most American thing I have ever heard of. It’s more American than the fake bald eagle cries they put in Hollywood movies. It’s more American than monster trucks and mass shootings. You simply cannot fit more America into a single incident than a man dying a horrifying death in protest of war crimes while a first responder screams at cops to stop pointing their guns at him and go get fire extinguishers. If you were to pick a single moment in history to sum up the essence and expression of the US empire, that would be it.
The New York Times reports that the man “was taken to a nearby hospital with life-threatening injuries and remains in critical condition.” A spokesman for the US Air Force has reportedly confirmed that the man is an active duty member.
“I’m about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” the man reportedly recorded himself saying before the incident. “But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal.”
The nameless protestor is correct. People in Gaza are being burned alive, are suffocating to death under collapsed buildings, are having operations and amputations without anesthesia, are starving to death, are watching their loved ones die in front of them, are experiencing suffering of a degree that very few of us here in the west can even imagine. And our ruling class is absolutely attempting to normalize this for us.
This isn’t even the first self-immolation we’ve seen in protest of Israel’s US-backed atrocities after October 7; back in December an unnamed protester with a Palestinian flag self-immolated outside the Israeli consulate building in Atlanta.
And as I reflect on this I can’t help thinking, how many Israel supporters have self-immolated in protest of October 7? How many Israel supporters have self-immolated in protest of the super serious antisemitism crisis they claim is making Jews feel unsafe in their communities? Surely their claims are just as serious and sincere as those of Palestine supporters, no?
Of course not. This has not happened and the very idea is laughable. Israel apologists insist that it is they and their favorite ethnostate who are the real victims in all this, rather than the population of Gaza who has seen tens of thousands of Palestinians annihilated while Israeli soldiers openly celebrate their mass displacement and death. But you don’t see them self-immolating; you see them cheerleading for ethnic cleansing and genocide. They wouldn’t do anything to cause themselves pain or inconvenience to promote their pet agenda. They wouldn’t even miss brunch for it.
It’s a horrific thing, burning alive. I suspect that pretty much everyone who’s ever self-immolated has had serious regrets about it within the first few seconds. There’s simply nothing one can do to prepare oneself for the experience of that kind of pain, or for how long it can take them to lose consciousness after it’s started. At that point the only comfort they could possibly offer themselves is that it can’t go on forever.
But the fact that anyone would ever take such a measure at all shows how profoundly urgent they recognize this issue to be, and how much more sincere they are about it than those on the other side.
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RIP Aaron Bushnell
The Zionists who are mad at this young man who set himself on fire and took his own life to protest Israel, would be giddy if he and a generation of soldiers his age were sent off to die for Israel in another pointless war.
I wish that this young man didn’t take his own life, this is NEVER the way in my opinion—but to see a bunch of Zionists saying such ugly things about him is heartbreaking. I don’t know why I’d expect any better from them though.
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The Zionists who are mad at this young man who set himself on fire and took his own life to protest Israel, would be giddy if he and a generation of soldiers his age were sent off to die for Israel in another pointless war.
I wish that this young man didn’t take his own life, this is NEVER the way in my opinion—but to see a bunch of Zionists saying such ugly things about him is heartbreaking. I don’t know why I’d expect any better from them though.
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In the first 6 days of bombardment, Israel killed more children in Gaza than were killed in 2 years of war in Ukraine..
In the first 10 days of bombardment, Israel killed more children in Gaza than were killed in the deadliest year on record in Afghanistan..
In the first 20 days of bombardment, Israel killed more children in Gaza than were killed in all armed conflicts globally, across 20 countries, over the coarse of a year, for the last 3 years
In the first 22 days of bombardment, Israel killed more children in Gaza than were killed in 15 years in Iraq..
In the first 30 days of bombardment, Israel killed more children in Gaza than were killed in 7.5 years of armed conflict in Yemen..
In the first 50 days of bombardment, Israel killed more children in Gaza than were killed in 5 years of war in Syria..
In the first 80 days of bombardment, Israel killed more children in Gaza than were killed in 11 years of war in Afghanistan…
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In the first 10 days of bombardment, Israel killed more children in Gaza than were killed in the deadliest year on record in Afghanistan..
In the first 20 days of bombardment, Israel killed more children in Gaza than were killed in all armed conflicts globally, across 20 countries, over the coarse of a year, for the last 3 years
In the first 22 days of bombardment, Israel killed more children in Gaza than were killed in 15 years in Iraq..
In the first 30 days of bombardment, Israel killed more children in Gaza than were killed in 7.5 years of armed conflict in Yemen..
In the first 50 days of bombardment, Israel killed more children in Gaza than were killed in 5 years of war in Syria..
In the first 80 days of bombardment, Israel killed more children in Gaza than were killed in 11 years of war in Afghanistan…
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If you believe that Aaron Bushnell was mentally ill, then why in the same breath do you mock him using the cruelest terms?
If you believe someone was deeply mentally ill and they died by self-immolating, wouldn’t the natural and decent response be to express sympathy and sadness?
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If you believe someone was deeply mentally ill and they died by self-immolating, wouldn’t the natural and decent response be to express sympathy and sadness?
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BREAKING: HAMAS OFFICIAL STATEMENT
ON AARON BUSHNELL
“We in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) express our deepest condolences and our full solidarity with the family and friends of the American pilot Aaron Bushnell, whose name has been immortalized as a defender of human values and the oppression of the Palestinian people who are suffering because of the American administration and its unjust policies, as well as the American activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by a Zionist bulldozer in Rafah in In 2003, it is the same city that Bushnell paid with his life for putting pressure on his country’s government to prevent the criminal Zionist army from attacking it and committing massacres and violations there.
The administration of US President Biden bears full responsibility for the death of US Army pilot Aaron Bushnell due to its policy that supported the Nazi Zionist entity in its war of extermination against our Palestinian people, as he gave his life in order to shed light on the Zionist massacres and ethnic cleansing against our people in the Gaza Strip.
The heroic pilot, Aaron Bushnell, will remain immortal in the memory of our Palestinian people and the free people of the world, and a symbol of the spirit of global human solidarity with our people and their just cause.
The tragic accident that cost Pilot Bushnell his life is an expression of the growing state of anger among the American people who reject their country’s policy that contributes to the killing and extermination of our people, and who reject their government’s violation of universal human values, by providing cover to ensure the impunity of the entity and its Nazi leaders from punishment and accountability.”
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ON AARON BUSHNELL
“We in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) express our deepest condolences and our full solidarity with the family and friends of the American pilot Aaron Bushnell, whose name has been immortalized as a defender of human values and the oppression of the Palestinian people who are suffering because of the American administration and its unjust policies, as well as the American activist Rachel Corrie, who was crushed by a Zionist bulldozer in Rafah in In 2003, it is the same city that Bushnell paid with his life for putting pressure on his country’s government to prevent the criminal Zionist army from attacking it and committing massacres and violations there.
The administration of US President Biden bears full responsibility for the death of US Army pilot Aaron Bushnell due to its policy that supported the Nazi Zionist entity in its war of extermination against our Palestinian people, as he gave his life in order to shed light on the Zionist massacres and ethnic cleansing against our people in the Gaza Strip.
The heroic pilot, Aaron Bushnell, will remain immortal in the memory of our Palestinian people and the free people of the world, and a symbol of the spirit of global human solidarity with our people and their just cause.
The tragic accident that cost Pilot Bushnell his life is an expression of the growing state of anger among the American people who reject their country’s policy that contributes to the killing and extermination of our people, and who reject their government’s violation of universal human values, by providing cover to ensure the impunity of the entity and its Nazi leaders from punishment and accountability.”
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They still are not letting more than 100 aid trucks into Rafah per day. (Faisal says they need at least 500-- as many as 800-- to keep everybody in Gaza fed.)
Don't be surprised if we see the Arabs finally get involved, kinetically. If that happens, expect the entire world to coalesce around them.
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Don't be surprised if we see the Arabs finally get involved, kinetically. If that happens, expect the entire world to coalesce around them.
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