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The Lesser Evil

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  • Incredibly cold take: Serving in another country’s military should disqualify you from any elected office.

    This has nothing to do with the United States or Israel. This feels like a basic “Being a functional state” thing. Cuba shouldn’t allow former Chinese soldiers to hold elected office either. Breaking news: Foreign country’s soldiers tend to have some allegiance to that country.

    Maybe you can add an exception for conscripts, but if you volunteered? Absolutely not.

  • For the first point:

    “While he was in high school, Josh Shapiro was required to do a service project, which he and several classmates completed through a program that took them to a kibbutz in Israel where he worked on a farm and at a fishery,” Bonder told the outlet, and later confirmed with The Daily Beast. “The program also included volunteering on service projects on an Israeli army base. At no time was he engaged in any military activities,” Bonder added.

    second: He did not say “savages” he said:

    too battle-minded to be able to establish a peaceful homeland of their own

    Additionally both of these statements were made in 1993 and he’s already stated he longer supports these statements. Source because you don’t have one.

    Admittedly 3 is weird but without proof (which I didn’t find) it’s nothing more than a conspiracy theory.