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October 20, 2023

Friday Short Cuts

Notable quotables from UNC Students for Justice in Palestine, Mark Pocan, Rashida Tlaib, and more.

Non Compos Mentis

“It is our moral obligation to be in solidarity with the dispossessed, no matter the pathway to liberation they choose to take. This includes violence.” —UNC Students for Justice in Palestine

“I’m not suggesting that Hamas deliberately did it either; it’s that old thing, ‘Gotta learn how to shoot straight.’” —Joe Biden regarding the Gaza terrorists’ wayward rocket

“I can understand why in this circumstance they wouldn’t believe.” —Joe Biden when told, “People … don’t necessarily believe you or the Israelis that they didn’t have anything to do with it.”

The BIG Lies

“That’s what’s been really painful. It’s, it’s just — continue to watch people think it’s okay to bomb a hospital.” —Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)

“We are literally watching [Israelis] commit genocide and killing a vast majority just like this, and we still stand by and say nothing.” —Rashida Tlaib

“You’re been targeted, you’re being gaslit, some people are losing their jobs, folks are getting events canceled — literally their First Amendment right wiped away for standing up and saying that children deserve to live. It is … literally inhumane for my colleagues to allow that to continue and say nothing.” —Rashida Tlaib

Theater of the Absurd

“You can’t have the attack that happened to Israel by a terrorist group like Hamas. At the same time, you can’t have the over-response, the collective punishment that’s coming out of Israel back to the citizenry, the Palestinians in Gaza, who are clearly not Hamas.” —Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI)

For the Record

“Hitler may not have represented all the German people. Mao Zedong may not have represented all the Chinese people. Josef Stalin may not have represented all the Russian people. Idi Amin may not have represented all the Ugandan people. And so on. Evil doesn’t need a majority to inflict death and mayhem, though a majority can oppose and defeat it if they have the will.” —Cal Thomas

“If anyone wants to see a preview of what a Palestinian state would look like, they should consider Gaza. Only the self-deluded believe such a state would not be used by terrorists to complete the ‘final solution’ of wiping Israel off the map. … As long as U.S. policy includes support for a Palestinian state there will likely be additional cycles of violence. The Palestinian National Authority should be told that given what Hamas has done, that scenario is no longer possible.” —Cal Thomas

Sad, but True

“If Republicans … spent as much time fighting Democrats as they did stabbing their own voters in the back, the battle for America’s soul would look more like a fight between two rivals than the one-sided shellacking Democrats are dolling out on a weekly basis.” —Shawn Fleetwood

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