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From: Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com>
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Subject: Re: Deportation of Khalil
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:40:32 -0400
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On 2025-04-13 2:19 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On 2025-04-12 11:29 PM, Robin Miller wrote:
>> Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>
>>> I despise Khalil. He's espousing anti-Western and anti-Israeli values 
>>> and
>>> is acting, effectively, as a spokesman for Hamas, It's a
>>> misrepresentation to call him "pro Palestinian" as taking the Hamas side
>>> is anti-Palestinian.
>>
>>
>> These are all lies. Khalil's position is to oppose Israel's genocide 
>> in Gaza, which is the only moral position to take. Numerous Jewish 
>> groups have taken the same position; Jewish groups have often led 
>> campus protests. Anyone who supports Israel in its genocide is siding 
>> with ideological descendants of Nazis.
>>
> If Hamas had taken the honourable - and legally required - approach to 
> war, none of this "genocide" would have happened. They would have put 
> their fighters in uniform and fought away from civilian areas instead of 
> deliberately hiding among the civilian population and civilian 
> infrastructure. But they didn't.
> 
> If Hamas cared about the citizens they represent, they would have let 
> them shelter in the extensive tunnel network that they built under Gaza, 
> rather than forbidding them to do so because the tunnels were reserved 
> for fighters and rockets. But they didn't.
> 
> If Hamas wanted to end the suffering and death, they would have given up 
> the hostages months ago and laid down their arms. But they didn't.
> 
> If Hamas had a shred of honesty, they would have ensured that the health 
> ministry in Gaza - which is run by Hamas - wouldn't be exaggerated and 
> would distinguish between dead fighters and dead civilians. But they 
> didn't.
> 
Oops. That paragraph was *supposed* to say:

If Hamas had a shred of honesty, they would have ensured that the health
ministry in Gaza - which is run by Hamas - wouldn't have exaggerated 
death tolls and would distinguish between dead fighters and dead 
civilians. But they didn't.

>> The government's position that a protestor at a university "would have 
>> potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United 
>> States" is preposterous on its face. Rubio's statement contained no 
>> evidence for his assertion.
>>
>> More generally, the contention that people legally in the US can be 
>> thrown out of the country--or legally harmed in any way--for taking a 
>> political position different from that of the government effectively 
>> nullifies the First Amendment.
>>
> Those two paragraphs are essentially what Adam are saying.
> 
>> The more extreme that Israel becomes, the more extreme becomes the 
>> repression by governments allied to Israel--and the fanaticism of 
>> Israel's supporters.
>>
>> Zionism is a genocidal political philosophy that must be eradicated.
>>
> 
> BTR1701 responded to that point already and I have nothing to add to his 
> response.
> 
> Mahmoud Khalil has gone beyond just speech, as Douglas Murray points out 
> in this video:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCWjWAiAIG4 [8 minutes]
> 
> (Be patient, he gets there....)
> 
> 


-- 
Rhino