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Leopards Ate My Face

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

why is this a leopard situation exactly? he's definitely not right wing, and i don't remember him condoning israel. did he?

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It lays it out in the article.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

whoops, i didn't realize there was an article. looked like a screenshot to me

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

From the article:

Myska tells Avi Hyman, an Israeli government spokesperson, that:

What the Iranians, of course, have said is that this is a retaliatory strike after Israel struck its consulate in Syria. Now we all know that the way diplomacy works is consulates and embassies are considered sovereign territory of the government that is concerned. What Israel did by taking that action against Iran was taken was escalate to what is already an incredibly fragile situation.

Hyman calls her expression of verifiable fact:

an outrageous framing of the reality.

Myska’s remarks are provable: Israel did strike an Iranian consulate, which under international law should have diplomatic immunity from such attacks.

O'Brien insisted that Myska was not fired because of her stance on Israel but implied that it was due to a low level of listeners: