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.
Just as the tide of public opinion was turning against Israel. That guy probably got a few hundred thousand Palestinians killed.
I don’t think the shooter was Palestinian.
Do you suppose that matters?
You don’t think this would be different if an Arab or a Muslim (not mutually exclusive) did this?
If he yells “free Palestine” while doing it, that means he’s associating himself with others who support a free Palestine. And that means other people won’t want to associate themselves with them.
I feel like this is very obvious but people seem unwilling to acknowledge it. Because they view this guy as on their side. But he’s on the side of narcissists, not people who are effective at saving Palestinian lives. He didn’t think at all about whether this will save or cost Palestinian lives.
I feel like the free Palestine movement in particular needs to understand this: if you want to save Palestinian lives, you need to convince people. And you don’t convince people by shooting at them, or by justifying people who shoot at them. Think about it: do you see Coke murdering Pepsi supporters as part of a marketing campaign? No. Because the people they hire for marketing are paid a lot of money to actually succeed. Instead they associate coke with positive things, by bringing in celebrities, and generally portraying coke drinkers as cool people.
You should try being more like coke. Sorry if this sounds belittling, but I feel like it needs to be said because free Palestine people seem to think the best strategy is to piss off the people you’re trying to convince. And that has never worked once in the history of mankind.
You aren’t with a group simply by saying that you are. That group must also acknowledge that you are with them. Otherwise anyone could simply identify as belonging to any group without any checks to that. Association is a two-way street, and I haven’t seen anyone stepping up to claim him.
The people committing genocide are literally wearing a uniform that identifies their association with Israel.
Maybe Israel should be more like Coke and stop committing genocide if they want people to support them, instead of doing a speedrun of pissing off the entire world.
Incidentally, Coke is a really bad example. They have done some absolutely dastardly shit and shouldn’t be a role model for anyone. Don’t drink Coke.
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