Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum
A suspect is in custody after shooting dead two Israeli embassy staff outside a Jewish museum in Washington on Wednesday night.
The gunman, named by police as Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, approached a group of four people leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum and opened fire, killing Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.
Metropolitan police chief Pamela Smith said the shooter had been pacing outside the museum, which is steps away from the FBI’s field office, before the shooting.
After killing the pair, who officials said were a couple, he walked inside, where event security detained him. The suspect yelled: “Free, free Palestine,” after he was arrested, police said.
TIL Zionism is an ethnicity
Lischinsky “I’m an ardent believer in the vision that was outlined in the Abraham Accords and believe that expanding the circle of peace with our Arab neighbours and pursuing regional cooperation is in the best interest of the state of Israel and the Middle East as a whole. To this end, I advocate for interfaith dialogue and intercultural understanding.”
Milgrim organised visits and missions to Israel. She was also a volunteer at Tech2Peace, an advocacy group training young Palestinians and Israelis and promoting dialogue between them.
Tech2Peace said Milgrim was an active volunteer who “brought people together with empathy and purpose”.
What does that have anything whatsoever to do with this being about an “ethnicity”? (It doesn’t)
But anyway
What a fun, peace loving dude.
Oh wait
Of course, they’ll occasionally go for some super soft “peace” initiative that realistically goes nowhere and conveniently supports the normalization of Israel’s existence on occupied land instead of a peace which involves the dismantling of the Zionist state, Palestinian authority of the zone, and massive reparations.
Is there a problem with taking out Houthis?
You know the pirates shooting at commercial shipping?
What about the girl? Anything you dig up about her buddy?
No?
Ah yes, because pirates blow shit up instead of taking it and selling it for personal gain.
Also, pretending like the Houthis situation is 100% independent of the Genocide in Gaza is disingenuous.
Israel has been an antagonist in the region for much of its existence. I’m sure the Houthis would take any excuse to fuck with Israel. However, their official line recently is basically “We’re going to fuck with shipping until you lift the blockade on Gaza.”
Oh, so just terrorists. That’s much better than being pirates. /s
Dumb ass take.
Ah, yes, terrorist. I can see now. I envy you and your simple, nuance free worldview. Just use that magic word and it all makes sense. No need to consider any other factors - they are terrorists so obviously you just kill them, right?
The Houthis, financed and supplied by Iran, a known terrorist group sponsoring nation, who is fighting a proxy war with Israel?
Those Houthis? Shut up dumbass.
… you do notice the fallacies here, right?
Nice deflect.
Yeah she voluntarily signed up to be a representative of a genocidal settler-colonial state. Pretty damning stuff.
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I’m such a racist zionist, oh golly, come on over and kill me.
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I haven’t said a single racist thing, you’re just a dumbass.
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You’re the one celebrating murder of two people just because they worked as staffers at the embassy.
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