# Stupid liberal idea of the day

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 20, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-liberal-idea-of-the-day/579086 "2011-04-20T15:35:49Z")\
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> [@Banquet\_Bear](#):
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> And what I don’t understand, and what I will _never_ understand, is that in the three years since Israel began their genocidal campaign in Gaza along with their wider expansionist plans in the Middle East, you’ve said more about Abdul El-Sayed than you have ever said about the “hurt people hurting people” over in Gaza, the West Bank, Southern Lebanon, and Iran.

> [@DSeid](#):
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> A false statement.

I mean, in the two most recent Gaza/Israel threads, totalling over 3,000 messages, there isn’t a single post by you.

Not one by me either, tbf.

Also, just four messages in the original discussion:

> [@Discussion thread for the Hamas Attacks Israel thread, October 2023](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/discussion-thread-for-the-hamas-attacks-israel-thread-october-2023/991317/2):
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> The Washington Post spins US involvement as deterring wider Mideast conflict. Certainly true in the sense that at this point it’s a “don’t do anything or else” message to Iran or any other external antagonist. But as this settles out, with US citizens among those mudered and direct Iranian involvement, what are the chances that the way this plays out is that we hit Iran, perhaps even with the endorsement of other ME nations?

None in the breaking news thread:

> [@Hamas attacks Israel, October 2023](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hamas-attacks-israel-october-2023/991234):
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> Hamas claims to have captured some soldiers. From the article: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “we are at war, and we will win it” as the country’s air force began striking Hamas targets in Gaza on Saturday, in response to a surprise assault on the 50th anniversary of the start of the 1973 Yom Kippur war. Hamas militants infiltrated Israeli territory from the Gaza Strip — including by paraglider and over the sea — and launched more than 2,200 rockets, Israeli military leaders …

I mean, I think the numbers speak for themselves. You do have a lot of posts in an antisemitism discussion, but that is only tangentially related to the Gaza/Israel debate and not about Gaza/Israel.

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