Sen. John Fetterman (D-Penn.) called some of his colleagues’ quickness to blame Israel for the hospital blast in Gaza “disturbing” in a statement Wednesday.

“It’s truly disturbing that Members of Congress rushed to blame Israel for the hospital tragedy in Gaza,” Fetterman said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

  • PugJesus
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    701 year ago

    “Who would take the word of a group that just massacred innocent Israeli civilians over our key ally?” he added.

    Anyone who knows the history of our ‘key ally’.

    • @paintbucketholder
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      Well, that’s like taking the word of al-Qaeda at face value because you know the history of the United States.

      • PugJesus
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        More that I wouldn’t regard our ‘key ally’ as particularly trustworthy. If Pakistan and the Taliban contradict each other, I’m not likely to take the word of either as gospel.

          • PugJesus
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            181 year ago

            Yeah, I lean towards a Hamas-aligned misfire at this point, but I don’t regard skepticism of the Israeli claim as inherently unreasonable.

            • @paintbucketholder
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              141 year ago

              Of course it’s not unreasonable. Just as criticism of the United States after 9/11 wasn’t unreasonable.

              What I find troubling are people who immediately jump to conclusions without the slightest bit of evidence, because they’ve already decided that one team is always right and the other team is always wrong.

        • Maeve
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          Kind of like djt and ksa denying involvement with dismemberment and murder of Kashoggi.

        • HubertManne
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          this. its like I don’t trust either group so lets see if there is any actual evidence which I think is what fetterman is actually saying. I love that guy.

      • PugJesus
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        341 year ago

        You’re right, Israel would never knowingly harm innocent Palestinians, thank you for the correction.

        • @WidowsFavoriteSon
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          Hey, don’t sass me, you’re the guy going “yay team” for the folks raping and beating civilans then carting at least one person’s body around the streets to be spit upon.

          • @drislands
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            101 year ago

            “Don’t sass me”, eh? You their dad or something?

            And that’s a mighty bold claim you’ve made there. They’re cheering on Hamas, are they? Mind linking the parts that say that? Cuz all I’m seeing is skepticism of Israel. Hardly the same thing. Don’t make me bust out the definition of “false dichotomy”, sport.