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AloeVera

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2. Hmm. If I responded like that to an article on Israeli casualties, I'd have my head bitten off.

Reply to speak easy (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 30, 2025, 11:18 AM

Monday

And rightly so.

The cost of war, any war, needs to be measured.

We have the names of the 28 innocent Israeli victims of a war their government started.

We will never know the names of the hundreds of innocent Iranian victims, but let's at least acknowlwdge their existence.

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... and ? speak easy Monday #1

Hmm. If I responded like that to an article on Israeli casualties, I'd have my head bitten off. AloeVera Monday #2

The difference is speak easy Monday #3

That's not what your "...and?" seemed to imply. . AloeVera Monday #4

... and that's what they say. speak easy Monday #6

Ok. But your ellipsis was in the wrong place. Just saying. AloeVera Monday #9

Why, exactly? Orrex Monday #5

"Netanyahu's extremist regime can be trusted?" speak easy Monday #7

In part because Netanyahu's murderous regime restricts journalists from reporting in Gaza Orrex Monday #8

If these were American troops Trump would say they just have headaches. twodogsbarking Monday #10

So, Israel is killing hundreds of civilians in another country now, Bayard Monday #11

Who said they were all civilians? Beastly Boy Monday #13

This message was self-deleted by its author Bayard Monday #12