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News & Current Events Apr 21, 2026 at 4:41 PM

Two Israeli soldiers jailed over smashing of Jesus statue in Lebanon

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idiot500000 Apr 21, 2026 +649
They gave the soldier who smashed it and the one who filmed 30 days in jail and discharges. The 6 who watched and did not intervene got "disciplined" and the IDF replaced the statue with another one that has a gold finish.
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SaltyShawarma Apr 21, 2026 +485
lol, a golden statue of Jesus. Can't get anymore blind to your own faith.
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plippityploppitypoop Apr 21, 2026 +348
It’s almost like Judaism isn’t Christianity
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Niceromancer Apr 21, 2026 +114
You'd expect the town residents to voice conscers over building a GOLDEN IDOL of Jesus when building golden idols is something their book says specifically not to do.
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Spiceguy-65 Apr 21, 2026 +95
The IDF could give a flying f*** less as to what the locals of that town want or like
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Unlikely-Signal-5167 Apr 21, 2026 +42
It's literally not gold. And there are golden colored statues of Jesus in places. I think it's really copper or something
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SaneSociopathPolitic Apr 21, 2026 +18
I think at this point they just wanted to be done dealing with the IDF
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Niceromancer Apr 21, 2026 +4
This is probably valid.
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nw342 Apr 21, 2026 +24
Do you really think the idf gives a f*** about what the locals think or want?
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Jestersfriend Apr 21, 2026 +10
Ah yes, let's complain to the racist pricks that just bashed my faith with a sledgehammer, rolling around town with guns, and destroying half of the country.
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Midraco Apr 21, 2026 +5
The book tells them not to build idols of false Gods. It's hard to argue Jesus isn't a true God as a part of the Trinity.
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BeastMasterJ Apr 21, 2026 +19
Someone ought to go back a thousand years and let the Orthodox know you can't use gold when depicting Jesus.
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KDR_11k Apr 22, 2026 +2
Some subsections of Christianity did consider all those Jesus statues to be a form of idolatry but the major churches love their expensive decor.
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NorthernerWuwu Apr 21, 2026 +6
Well, depends on which book we want to talk about. OT is quite specific "**You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."** but the NT gets a lot more wishy-washy about things.
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cinnamonspiderr Apr 22, 2026 +8
> shall not make for **yourself** Replacing a destroyed statue for a different religion isn’t them putting another god before their god, and Jews certainly aren’t worshipping Jesus, so I wonder if that is the justification. Ethically speaking and from a secular view, replacing it seems like the right thing to do.
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Jedbo75 Apr 22, 2026 +2
The Trinity is very arguable and there are entire denominations that are non-Trinitarian. When Jesus prays to his Father, calls out to him, it is enormously hard to reconcile that he would be doing so to himself. Also, for God to sacrifice his only begotten son to pay for humanity’s sins may carry less weight for some when considered that his son is…him, er, Him. Christ as God mostly seems to come from post-Gospel writings, less from his own words. God as 3 personages is damn near polytheistic in the eyes of many. Not necessarily taking a stance on my own views, as I’m comfortable not knowing shit (while still knowing as much as anyone else) but to say it’s hard to argue, even amongst those who consider themselves Christians, just ain’t so.
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Red-Flag-Potemkin Apr 21, 2026 +3
It’s incredibly easy to argue Jesus wasn’t god or the messiah.
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Metahec Apr 21, 2026 +2
I think it's a passive aggressive insult towards Christians since *they* don't recognize Jesus as anything special. They won't make golden figures of what they hold significant or holy, but f*** everybody else because their holiness doesn't count.
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Bored_Interests Apr 21, 2026 +7
So Judaism is from the Torah, which is almost the exact same as the Old Testament of the Bible. In the book of Exodus, the Israelites made a golden calf to worship prior to Moses making a trip up the mountain to get the 10 commandments. This story is the same across the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran. Those three religions are called the Abrahamic religions because they all share a number of stories, including the tale of Abraham as the founding father of Judaism and the spiritual ancestor to Christianity and Islam. Judaism isnt Christianity, youre right. But Christianity is Judaism with extra steps, and Islam is Judaism and Christianity with extra steps. So although they are not the same, it is common and accurate to conflate the 3 when it comes to stories from the Old Testament.
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idiot500000 Apr 22, 2026 +2
Where are the 10 commandments in the Quran? They believe the entirety of the Tanakh has been corrupted by Satan. Like... No
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Canada_Suck_it Apr 22, 2026 +2
This is just wrong, you can see clear and obvious difference in how each prays, dietary laws, languages used, proselytizing, and major differences on ideas of afterlife.
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supamario132 Apr 21, 2026 +27
Why? Making a gold statue to anything else would be ironic but veneration is a pretty central part of the religion. I would bet most catholics have at least 1 gold crucifix
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alsotheabyss Apr 21, 2026 +18
What? Have you never seen medieval iconography of the Trinity? It’s all covered in gold.
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throwraW2 Apr 21, 2026 +37
It’s not their faith.
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idiot500000 Apr 21, 2026 +19
The owner is Catholic. They do this.
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Jestersfriend Apr 21, 2026 +10
What are you talking about? Jesus isn't anyone special in Judaism. At most he was a preacher.
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generic_tylenol Apr 21, 2026 +2
"He chose...poorly."
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XiaoDaoShi Apr 22, 2026 +2
A statue of Jesus is already idolatry by Jewish standards (many Protestants also believe the same). Gold doesn’t make it extra sinful, even if it conjures that specific story from the bible.
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KaiBahamut Apr 21, 2026 +53
Smashing a statue of Jesus is a much more serious crime in the IDF than any r*** or child murder- Christians don’t care about that, but would care about vandalism of a statue of Jesus.
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enjoycarrots Apr 21, 2026 +40
It hurt the wrong people, most notably their PR with Christian Zionists.
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kstargate-425 Apr 22, 2026 +4
This unfortunately all its about. Their only remaining supporters and they couldn't have that. Theyve got $150 MILLION annually to spend for hasbara and buying politicians through 2030 to try and fix it but its not making a dent anymore thankfully
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ozneoknarf Apr 21, 2026 +14
Seems fair, destroying a statue shouldn’t get you years in jail
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White_Travolta Apr 22, 2026 +8
What about slaughtering a population?
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mido_sama Apr 21, 2026 +18
For Orange approval
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One_Study52 Apr 21, 2026 +8
But if it was a Palestinian child, they would have been given a promotion
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coldazice Apr 21, 2026 +6
Gold finish they’re playing in everyone’s face lol
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nobadhotdog Apr 21, 2026 +961
Will the jail be stormed by israelis wanting to free them like they did with the soldiers who knife raped a guy?
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FireworkFuse Apr 21, 2026 +542
A country having *PRO* r*** riots in the modern day is absolutely insane and yet here we are. Something something most moral army or whatever
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Round-Medicine2507 Apr 21, 2026 +142
Well the whole Republican party is pro r*** unless the offender is caught on public cctv or has darker skin. 
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DownhillUphill Apr 21, 2026 +84
Israel only respects Zionism. The world needs to turn our backs on them
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Beneficial_Soup3699 Apr 21, 2026 +88
How about the dog handlers? I refuse to expand on this. iykyk, and I'm sorry you've been cursed with the knowledge.
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Jay-Dee-British Apr 21, 2026 +22
Yeah I wish I could un-know this. I'd like a factory reset from before hearing about this, thanks.
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nobadhotdog Apr 21, 2026 +7
i don't know, what is this?
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yuje Apr 21, 2026 +64
There are reports that the IDF has been [using dogs to r*** prisoners](https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/palestinians-raped-israeli-jailers-speak-out)
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3nterShift Apr 21, 2026 +19
Just when I think these ghouls can't get more comically evil, I get hit with another steel chair of crimes against humanity. No wonder they love their thought-terminating cliché so much. You start sounding insane and like a genuine antisemite the moment you start describing what's happening.
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Metahec Apr 21, 2026 +5
Knife raped a guy? I missed that one. I did see that they absolved the group who gang raped a prisoner and ousted the lady who blew the whistle on them though.
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h8sm8s Apr 22, 2026 +10
They have even trained dogs to r*** prisoners. Multiple surviving victims have spoken out about it. It’s one of the worst things I have ever read.
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Metahec Apr 22, 2026 +3
That's enough internet for me today. How revolting.
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naththegrath10 Apr 21, 2026 +75
Let’s be real, the IDF only cares because the images spread online
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kstargate-425 Apr 22, 2026 +13
Yeah it hurt their Christian zionist supporters which are the only ones left so had to do something as spending $150 MILLION annually through 2030 isnt doing the job anymore.
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Ramoncin Apr 21, 2026 +425
Jailed for this but nor for raping Palestinians?
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Walnut_Uprising Apr 21, 2026 +144
Because this pisses off the evangelicals who are indirectly funding the IDF.
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TheLego_Senate Apr 21, 2026 +48
Exactly. You can do whatever you want but don't f*** with the money.
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Hussar223 Apr 21, 2026 +51
the only reason this happened is because it pissed off the american evangelical right wing, the biggest israeli supporting demographic in the US. cant let them realize that israel wants to ethnically cleanse everyone from southern lebanon. not just muslims
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FinndBors Apr 21, 2026 +7
> the biggest israeli supporting demographic in the US. Given the population of Israel, it’s the biggest in the world.
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janethefish Apr 21, 2026 +28
It just shows they CAN act quickly to punish if they feel like it. It shows that r*** has Israeli government support.
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Listerine_Panther Apr 21, 2026 +52
Well of course. Sadly, Jesus is the one people care about. Or rather, idols of someone else's description of him.
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BulldogMoose Apr 21, 2026 +15
They’re only punishing them because they have to. 
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TerriblePokemon Apr 21, 2026 +7
Careful, break too many Jesus statues and the American evangelicals in congress (who support Israel in order to bring about the apocalypse and the second coming of Jesus) might get pissy and withhold funding.
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MedicineExtension925 Apr 21, 2026 +2
Yeah you don't want to piss off your donors after all
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spicymemesdotcom Apr 21, 2026 +2
Recognize the hierarchy.   Christians= worth saving  Muslims= not worth saving
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W0rdWaster Apr 21, 2026 +354
kill journalists? children? r*** a man on camera? no problem! vandalism that angers trumps base? straight to jail!!
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CV90_120 Apr 21, 2026 +12
Look, after the [Hula massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hula_massacre) they jailed the officer in charge for a whole year. What more do you want?
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Acceptable-Peace-69 Apr 21, 2026 +41
Killings Since 2020: Over 1,100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank since 2020. Impunity Rates: Data indicates that 93.8% of investigations into ideologically motivated crimes by settlers against Palestinians (including killings) are closed without an indictment. Soldier Prosecutions: Between 2018 and 2022, only 1.5% of complaints against soldiers led to charges, with the probability of a soldier being prosecuted for killing a Palestinian at 0.4%. Conviction Rate: As of early 2025, only 3% of investigated cases of settler violence since 2005 resulted in a conviction. In March 2026, the Israeli Knesset passed a law authorizing the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis, which critics note applies exclusively to Palestinians, while Israeli settlers charged with killing Palestinians in the same territory face civilian courts with a low conviction rate.
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epidemicsaints Apr 21, 2026 +94
So glad statues have personhood over there. Back to r*** and killing children, guys.
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ShibeCEO Apr 22, 2026 +22
so THATS where we draw the line?!? f****** clownshow...
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Infinite-Two7690 Apr 22, 2026 +2
I feel this is a really insensitive and honestly appalling comment, there are legitimate clownshows in the world who would be deeply offended by the comparison...
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thefrozenorth Apr 21, 2026 +17
It's ok to kill thousands of Palestinians but don't upset the American Evangelicals who pay for everything because they need Israel for the Rapture.
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wyvernx02 Apr 22, 2026 +12
Punished for getting caught doing it, not for actually doing it.
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Gnufighter Apr 22, 2026 +11
Footage of Israelis spitting at Churches: https://youtu.be/7TwEQX6zwUI?si=tDceY7WKO--7jGRk Footage of Israelis spitting at Nuns: https://youtu.be/7uL555xWQeE?si=Tu2rpokbREZN1SOR Footage of Israelis assaulting a Priest: https://youtu.be/LXwxMKnuJKw?si=YSL0sBw2nZ8fHfZw They don't care that it happened they care they got caught.
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Sir_David_Filth Apr 21, 2026 +26
So they will "jail" idiots smashing a statues but will riot over literal f****** rapists? What a disgrace of a nation and people
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secretqwerty10 Apr 21, 2026 +3
>literal f****** rapists that guy was arrested first, then the riots happened. who knows, maybe zionists will do the same for these guys
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Fanticide Apr 21, 2026 +58
Why do I get the feeling that “jailed” means hidden from zionists.
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onegumas Apr 21, 2026 +41
Hidden from news for 2 weeks and then released. As always.
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whereismymind86 Apr 22, 2026 +4
Says a lot that this is what generates outrage and gets a soldier arrested, not all the genocide
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charlies_brain Apr 22, 2026 +4
Israelis have a N word equivalent for Christians. They literally crucified Christ, but stupid Christians still think they love Jesus.
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FineBumblebee8744 Apr 22, 2026 +2
Christians made the guy that stabbed Jesus a saint https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=11 But sure keep claiming 'the Jews' killed Jesus
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sushi69 Apr 21, 2026 +28
No topple statue! Only kill and r*** Palestinian
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Affectionate-Print81 Apr 21, 2026 +13
Wow actual consequences. Good for them.
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areno004 Apr 22, 2026 +4
Kill babies : nothing Destroy a statue: jail This world
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Kwelikinz Apr 22, 2026 +2
Probably just transferred them to the “buffer zone” in Lebanon.
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BD_9x Apr 22, 2026 +2
Don’t worry guys they will be jailed for one day and get a slap on the wrist for this act
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Easy_Prompt_6275 Apr 22, 2026 +2
If only they bombed, abused, starved, or killed Palestinians, they would be ok
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Operation-Cultural Apr 22, 2026 +2
Are they going to rebuild all the homes they bombed for fun?
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epilepsy_ray Apr 22, 2026 +2
Kill babies, pat on the back. Destroy a poorly made statue of a man lived 2000 years ago, u get disciplined. What a wonderful world...
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HappyCaterpillar2409 Apr 21, 2026 +9
"We're sorry we got caught"
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Winstonsphobia Apr 22, 2026 +3
Kill Palestinian children and Israel will decorate you.
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JackBlackBowserSlaps Apr 22, 2026 +2
Should have just raped someone. Then they’d get promoted.
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Independent_Tie_4984 Apr 22, 2026 +3
"Two Israeli Soldiers Jailed for Getting Caught" Fixed
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nickyinnj Apr 22, 2026 +3
This is surprising. A statue gets justice but not the displaced people bring used for shooting sport. ... Reading. EDIT after reading: I'm a Christian, and they can smash all the Jesus statues they want. Just stop destroying and bombing homes and displacing civilians. I'm still shocked that this is the act of the IDF out of all their documented behaviors that gets punished.
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Hunter_Aleksandr Apr 21, 2026 +4
Only because it made their optics worse. F*** Israel. Free Palestine. Free the Jewish people from being forced to be associated with Israel.
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Mysterious_Bit_5385 Apr 21, 2026 +3
How about the one who r*** and/or commit warcrime now ? We have 6000 french citizen who served for tsahal in gaza , and they are roaming free in france . Im SO DONE . F israel .
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AnanasDuEnfer Apr 21, 2026 +3
They can excuse targeting aid workers but smashing a statue of Christ is where they draw the line
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Ornery-Childhood1782 Apr 21, 2026 +3
Smashing Jesus = bad. Raping prisoners = good.
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spoogicus Apr 21, 2026 +2
Kill tens of thousands of women and children, no problem and no apology. But you smash one little status of the Jeebus? Straight to jail and a formal apology from Bibi.
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Rivitur Apr 21, 2026 +2
So wait. Are the Jews pro or anti killing Jesus I'm confused 
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W1nn3tou Apr 22, 2026 +2
Killing children is fine, but do not cross the line of smashing a dudes statue /s
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Sparrahs Apr 22, 2026 +2
So you can’t do that to a statue of a Palestinian man? Real Palestinian people can be killed by the thousands with no repercussions though. 
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CUTTYONE70 Apr 21, 2026 +3
Jail I'm sure it's a country club type of setup.
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fcatw Apr 21, 2026 +2
So that’s what it takes to jail an Israeli soldier?
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SnarkyPuppy-0417 Apr 21, 2026 +1
Somehow this is more offensive than murdering children?
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thebetterpolitician Apr 21, 2026 +3
lol the goalpost just moves further. Ya’ll were up in arms about statues all of a sudden and Israel did something and now it’s “WHAT ABOUT THIS?!?” Insufferable
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Dark_Mak__r Apr 21, 2026
Well after a month or soo a mob led by a far right will storm jail and get them free… and will get posted back to west bank area…
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CaraCicartix Apr 21, 2026 +3
For how long? Three hours with a pat on the head and a cookie?
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Scr33ble Apr 21, 2026 +1
But probably np if they’d killed actual humans
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Hot_Pilot_3293 Apr 21, 2026 +1
Jailed for destroying a statue but not for raping inmates, Justice at its finest.
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ExterminAiden Apr 21, 2026 +2
If they are actually jailed then good, but I imagine that’s a complete lie by them. Or at worst they just got fired.
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AvidCyclist250 Apr 21, 2026 +1
It's what happens if you don't have a professional army. More or less laymen soldiers make for shit and undisciplined soldiers. Also easily scared and stressed soldiers, which is never good.
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vb2509 Apr 21, 2026 +1
So when do they get medals for it?
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Redowl199 Apr 21, 2026 +1
Bet they will get released later and back to duty. Its the trick Israil does
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Abbbcdy Apr 21, 2026 +1
I would have to be there in person and see them in jail to believe this
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unlucky_billionaire Apr 21, 2026 +1
Yes, lets jail them after the event spread online and try to do some damage control
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TheOriginalKrampus Apr 22, 2026 +1
Great! Now do they can do the same with the buildings they destroyed in Lebanon.
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