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Jews were original suicide bombers, BBC says in article on 9/11 attacks (www.jpost.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The BBC Arabic article claimed "fanatic Jews" fighting Roman invaders in ancient Jerusalem were the first example of suicide bombers.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

grabs popcorn

This comment section is going to be gold.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

“Suicidal military missions” are quite different from terrorism. What a silly attempt at an analogy.

That said. Terrorism is far from uniquely a Muslim tactic - it’s quite effective and had been used extensively in the past over and over again.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

BBC Arabic performing a staggering amount of mental gymnastics attempting to justify that opinion. What's even the goal? Excusing radical Islamic bombings because "The Jews did it first!"??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Did you read the original? On the anniversary of 9/11 they published a side article talking about a timeline of suicide attacks throughout history. The Jewish far right objected that they were listed among the others (even though they literally celebrate those fanatics).

[+] [email protected] -7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Even further back than that. The Bible celebrates Samson committing a suicide attack on the Philistines. The Jewish far right praises modern Israeli terrorists like Baruch Goldstein by comparing them to Samson.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yeeeeeeah, tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I did read the article, and my comment stands.

Despite the clickbait and predictable outrage from the far right, the BBC originally published l an article titled "the story of suicide bombers throughout history: From the fanatical Jews, through the assassins, to the jihadists." Suicide attacks go back as far as the Bible, as I said above.