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Igel

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2. But only condemned if "properly" documented.
Sat Apr 15, 2023, 09:15 PM
Apr 2023

A speech in English condemning an suicide attack in Jerusalem but ending with a repeated cry in Arabic, "A million martyrs to Jerusalem!" gets praise.

The shadidath (sic) don't know English and don't hear the condemnation, the Western audience don't know Arabic and don't hear the exhortation.

Hard to condemn what you don't hear. Hard to condemn something you don't know the full context of--oddly, it's easy to accept things that you rather like if you don't know the full context of. (Wait. That's "confirmation bias." Foolish, but not odd.)

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