Witnesses at the scene told CBS Colorado that the suspect attacked people with Molotov cocktails who were participating in a walk to remember the Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza.
Run For Their Lives, which organized the walk, said, “This is not a protest; it is a peaceful walk to show solidarity with the hostages and their families, and a plea for their release.” The group met at 1 p.m. at Pearl Street and 8th Street to walk the length of the Pearl Street Mall and back with a stop at the courthouse for a video.
This group doesn’t see Palestinian lives as worth as much as Israeli ones, clearly.
I’m sorry but 21 hostages don’t hold a candle to over 50k dead, including women and children and 1.8 million classified as “extremely critical” levels of hunger. There’s a famine in Gaza right now, they’ve been scorch earth bombed to hell resulting in widespread homelessness. Israel just gunned down and murdered 30 innocent people today and injured hundreds more who were there for food from an aid truck simply for crossing a line slightly before 6 AM.
Fuck out of here. Sudan and Haiti are not part of this conversation for a reason and it’s because Haiti is in the Caribbean for fucks sake so that’s a stretch to “you don’t care about hostages”. It’s a genocide orchestrated by the Israeli government. The hostages are a flimsy excuse at best.
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The organization’s website says it was founded by Israelis. They carry Israeli flags. It is a pro-israel protest.
The reality of the situation is that those hostages do not fucking matter when Israel’s response is to carpet bomb the most densely populated region of the world, starve them, and trap them from ever leaving.
It is incredibly tone deaf to protest for the Israeli hostages. I can guarantee you they do not care about Palestinian lives if this is what their focus is on and they don’t mention Palestine.
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I promise you it is 100% their genocidal actions I take issue with and not their religion.
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The fact that the government perpetuating the war doesn’t want the hostages released so as to preserve their justification for war.
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That’s an extremely weird question, lol.
You are not having this conversation in good faith. You’re taking a very closed-minded perspective to someone saying “killing thousands of children is bad” AND “not enough was even done to save the hostages.” I’ve met people like you in real life, and I suspect the pain of admitting that you’re even slightly in the wrong about a country you value must really hurt, but it does not make genocide apologia ok. I’ve accepted my own country sucks, so you can make peace with a place like Israel too.
Also, if “discussion” like this is what this comm tolerates, I sure as hell don’t want to be a part of the conversations here.
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