Police said a suspect was in custody after the shooting near the Capital Jewish Museum
A suspect is in custody after shooting dead two Israeli embassy staff outside a Jewish museum in Washington on Wednesday night.
The gunman, named by police as Elias Rodriguez, 30, of Chicago, approached a group of four people leaving an event at the Capital Jewish Museum and opened fire, killing Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim.
Metropolitan police chief Pamela Smith said the shooter had been pacing outside the museum, which is steps away from the FBI’s field office, before the shooting.
After killing the pair, who officials said were a couple, he walked inside, where event security detained him. The suspect yelled: “Free, free Palestine,” after he was arrested, police said.
I really wish the world would go back to peacetime
There is always a war going on somewhere. Some areas have longer breaks than others.
Small, weak men can never be happy with what they have because they feel small and weak. They will always crave more.
Peace for whom? As far as I can tell since Nakba, the Palestinian people have not really had peace. Additional many other countries are often suffering under the boot of colonialism.
Same. But when was that time? There has always been conflict.
Latest figures are that 61,700 have been killed in Gaza since Oct 7th 2023, so a bit of napkin maths suggest we are 3% of the way towards peace in Gaza through the IDF’s preferred method.
I think your math is wrong.
It assumes nobody is having kids.
You’re assuming those kids aren’t going to starve to death.
If they even live long enough for that. Most of the hospitals were bombed.
All of them have been bombed. Most are no longer even partially operational, and even then that’s without the medical supplies also cut off from Israeli’s blockade
These numbers in Gaza are always undercounted. It counts direct acts of violence mostly, for people not still buried under rubble, and skips many deaths from lack of medicine, sickness, famine, complications etc.
Estimated deaths was about 200k many months ago, according to studies published in reputable newspapers. I have no clue how high it is now, has to be over 300,000 people at least
Free Palestine!
This article is clearly anti-palenstinizem! The dead officials were clearly Israeli terrorists and the pair were merely protecting themselves. /s
The man who got shot had an active Twitter account. Very stand-up guy. Such a shame he got killed.
Wonder what his lemmy username is.
Rest in piss.
While any loss of life should be saddening, this dude REEEEALLY makes it hard to be empathetic.
Well he seems like a total piece of soulless shit, lets give him that.
Contrary to the bogus claims of the media, this dude is not a bullet-riddled corpse!
good ridance
Heartbreaking to see, but sadly it was only a matter of time until something like this happened. This war on Gaza is growing increasingly unpopular and people feel powerless to stop the ongoing genocide being conducted by Israel. I don’t support attacks against random civilians but I’m not surprised somebody saw an opportunity to make a statement. These deaths are on Netanyahu along with the tens-of-thousands of Palestinians killed since the war started.
The only sad thing is only 2 of the pundits died.
These deaths are also on the people who demand to globalize the intifada.
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Do you think these murders help Palestinians?
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During the last month, I have introduced real life Israelis and Palestinians to each other. I have helped two Palestinians deal with German bureaucracy.
That’s the most recent stuff. A complete list would take too long to write down.
not really random, this guy seems on par with the Israelis watching Gaza bombings from a cliff while eating popcorn. He also seems to have a full hard on for Trump, so for him all kinds of humanitarian crimes are probably ok as long as the president supports Israeli genocide. So not really random, perhaps more on the same level as Luigi.
It doesn’t look like this was an “attack on random civilians.” Out of all the people they could have killed, they killed people who work for the Israeli Embassy. They worked for the government doing the genocide.
Now did they support it? Who knows, but this shooter was not shooting up a movie theater. It was no more random than the United Healthcare CEO.
It’s rather interesting that I haven’t seen anyone mention that this guy who was shot was almost certainly a spy.
what do you think it means ?
Welp, sucks to suck.
So, there’s a lot of things happening in Gaza other than what’s on the nose. Like starvation can cause neurological issues in the brain, in the body. It can even make your hair turn gray. All the stress. During World War I, soldiers came back with a thing called shell shock, and they would just constantly shake all the time. The kids in Gaza are showing symptoms of shell shock. So I could care less about two people getting killed.
It sucks that more people died. It also sucks that I feel so…indifferent about this one.
How many Israelis have to die before they stop killing Palestinians? What’s two lives compared to the hundreds ended daily in Gaza? It’s hard to be sad.
These people probably weren’t evil. At worst, they were complicit after being fed a lifetime of propaganda. And nothing will change because of this so there’s no silver lining. It’s hard to be happy.
If I feel anything, it’s dread at how the story will be spun. But even then…whatever happens isn’t going to be the worse than what’s already happening.
So it’s hard to care at all. And that’s the sad part for me.
i know how you feel, it’s just like the thousands of other terrorist acts against Jews over the centuries
I don’t really feel indifferent towards those, though
so you don’t want any more of these murders to happen?
or you’re indifferent about that
Sorry, gloves off
What kind of stupid fucking gotcha do you think you’re trying to catch me in here?
would you be indifferent if more israeli embassy workers are killed?
clear enough potty mouth?
I agree, and i think killing people is wrong. But i would not say victims were not evil.
The government of Israel is evil.
These people worked for the embassy.We can’t condemn people in broad terms. That is what started this. Killing someone because of their nationally, race, or job, is wrong. It’s more senseless killing, adding to the hundreds of Palestinians killed.
Guard yourself against seeing individuals as the enemy, when their only sin is where they were born.
Guard yourself against seeing individuals as the enemy, when their only sin is where they were born.
Kansas City?
Wat?
She was from Kansas City.
That’s exact what I’m trying to say - they didn’t deserve to die and nothing good will come from it.
I will admit I WAS happy about the UHC CEO because he was directly involved in the decisionmaking that led to suffering. But this one doesn’t feel like vengeance - until I hear otherwise, these were just two people caught in the crossfire. Bullets should be flying at Netanyahu and his cronies, not embassy employees.
They weren’t just born there. They took a state job representing, and lobbying for this genocide.
It’s a tragedy that it has come to this, but it’s not wrong. It’s wrong that it has to be this way.
Killing is only justified if it saves lives. Anyone can see this act will cost lives on both sides. And 1000x as many on the Palestinian side.
Let’s be real, this guy wanted to be a badass and get praise and attention. And he doesn’t care how many die because of that.
I have a hard time reconciling killing is justifiable. I can agree if your life is in immediate danger but then you have the cops who use it as a license to kill. I lean on the side that some things just can’t be justified and we have to mitigate/manage these instances.
How do you know they were lobbying for genocide? For all we know they were against it and working for a peaceful solution. Not everyone who works for a government is part of the ideology. That’s no better than saying every Democrat is MAGA.
You just have to check Lischinsky tweets and retweet oposing a palestinian state because it would be a gift to Khamas
Counter point: how do you know they weren’t…?
What about where to draw the line? Everyday the money we use is funneled to some corporation that has a hand in the human suffering that happens around the globe. When is there evil transfered to me because I contributed to their successs.
I’d say the line is crossed when you have agency and knowingly use it to perpetuate suffering.
Everyone has agency to be more decerning with their purchases.
Yeah ,maybe they felt really bad for all the children the Israelis target and the starvation of the population of 2.3 million.
You are high on something, this is not how Zionism works. Most Israelis support the genocide.
Most Israelis support Israel which, until a few years ago, was a-ok on account of the previous thousands of years of persecution in every other country in the world, cresting in the unpleasantness of the early-mid 1900s which set quite the bar for evil and horror.
Then Likud - like all republiQan, right-wing authoritarian regimes - seized power and started fucking everything up in incredible, outrageous ways. Americans should be familiar.
I don’t know what they did for the embassy, but it could be something utterly harmless and treating them like enemy combatants when they’re in an entirely different country at a museum is wrong.
I get the hate at the Likud/IDF for the genocide. Y’all are losing the plot by thinking this is ok though. It is very much not okay.
Maybe they did, which is why they were at an event to discuss delivering more aid to Gaza.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cy9vr10n732t
These were young idealists trying to make a change. But the shooter didn’t care about the distinction, and it seems many others don’t either.
Ambassadors are appointed. If they were not in favor of the administration they would be recalled and replaced by ones that were.
It is beyond the shadow of a doubt that these people were directly involved in advocating for greater crackdowns on pro-Palestine antigenocide protesting.
It is a shame that they were murdered. It’s a greater shame that the deaths of these two people who consented to be a part of a war machine will get greater attention than the thousands of children they spent their final days ensuring would starve.
These two people are not anymore important than the hundreds of journalists doctors and aid workers Israel has murdered in their genocidal pursuit of their purified ethnostate.
These two people lived by the sword. These two people died by the sword. There are bigger problems in the world than the death of two soldiers in a war.
Dumbass take.
Ambassadors are appointed. If they were not in favor of the administration they would be recalled and replaced by ones that were.
I suppose, but they weren’t ambassadors. So - that’s wrong.
It is beyond the shadow of a doubt that these people were directly involved in advocating for greater crackdowns on pro-Palestine antigenocide protesting.
Damn, a shadow of a doubt?! Holy shit you must have the motherfucking receipts on these sumbitches, let’s see it! Whatcha got, facebook post? Tiktok? Some sort of cleverly disguised academic treatise?
Yeah you got nothing. GTFO.
These two people lived by the sword.
Oh FFS.
You know not all embassy staff are ambassadors from Israel right?
You can work at an embassy and be a US citizen.
Which one of them was.
That’s even worse then.
So you condone the killing of a person because they happen to work somewhere?
Odd take but ok.
If you conveniently forget to mention where it is exactly they happen to work, of course it sounds silly.
So just because they work at the embassy they deserved to die?
The janitors also deserve to die. The air conditioning guy also deserves to die. The intern also deserves to die.
You are just conveniently so stupid.
Would you be making this post if they had been working for the Third Reich?
Israel is literally committing genocide. Working for the Israeli government makes you complicit with their crimes. Yes, it is completely morally acceptable to kill people who actively choose to materially support genocide.
Much of Germany was working for the Third Reich, if you don’t recall from history.
Shooting random staffers doesn’t fight the Third Reich leadership, you just murdered some random people.
Killing someone because of their nationally, race, or job, is wrong.
One of these things is not like the others.
i will disagree here as people in palestine have no choice, they are going to murdered by settlers and have their home of multiple generations taken away no matter what they do. so what alternative they have other than to fight back.
these “delegates” on the other are rich and educated enough to work for anyone other than this disgusting apartheid state of who murder women and children for fun on daily basis. we all know what aipac and israeli lobby does in us to hijack our political system. they are the actual terrorists not gazan fighting for survival without food and water against an enemy that wipes out a family with drone strike for speaking the truth. these “delegates” might not have shot anyone but they certainly ensure that the terrorists who do it get all the funds and weapons they need.
they intentionally murder doctors and medics so injured innocents die horrible death
people like him and luigi are just normal people who are brave enough to do the only thing that is going to make a dent against these well funded parasites.
Rot in hell, zionists.
May the shame of your statements burn upon you for the rest of eternity, ML-toid.
Is hating Zionists a .ml thing? Man they sound cool.
What are your thoughts on hating nazis? You know, the other far right wing fascist ideology built upon the creation of an ethnostate which is also only achievable by genocide?
They need a good fist to the face at minimum, what are you asking?
It seems awfully staged for just how brazen and deliberately placed it is, wouldn’t put it past Mossad to kill their own for a PR stunt.
The thing about PR is reality can be irrelevant. If violence was done in association with anything pro-Palestine: it will be used to maximize that effect.
Same process that produces things like the Laken Riley Act.
Let’s not jump to conspiracy theories just yet. It’s completely realistic that someone would take out their anger on Israeli diplomats
It’s also completely realistic that Mossad would do something like this. 🤷🏼♂️ Labelling someone a conspiracy theorist isn’t really effective when the people they’re theorizing against act like conspirators.
Do you have any
evidencetheories at all?You don’t need evidence when you’re a racist conspiracy theorist, like Mel Gibson
He’s got a whole bottle full of evidence!
I didn’t label you a conspiracy theorist, I was actually trying to be careful not to dismiss the suggestion entirely because yeah, that’s also plausible. But saying it “seems awfully staged” hours after it happened is Alex Jones rhetoric we should avoid lest we start looking at stupid as the far right.
FlyingCircus isn’t the same user as SereneSadie
Ok well I’m not sure why they jumped in then
…these are public forums. People can chime in when they want to…
You’re not wrong about that but they jumped in to defend someone from an attack that wasn’t happening, making me wonder why they replied at all
If you’re gonna chime in on a public forum, read the comment first…
RIP to the victims.
By victims, I assume you mean Palestinians?
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What a shocker it’s another Blahaj shell for an ML user 🫠
What a shocker it’s another dbzer0 shell for a .world user 🫠
You’re badly underestimating the scale of some of the post WWII genocides. The Khemer Rouge potentially killed more people than the total population of Gaza for example…
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The genocide of the Tigray had three times the deaths and only happened two years ago.
The Rwandan genocide and Hutu genocide during the Congo war killed hundreds of thousands in the 1990s.
This is only the most recent events that came to mind.
Oh, well, that makes the genocide OK.
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The West? The colonial rulers used divide and conquer to divide these populations. However that was decades earlier and happened all over the world without leading to genocide every time.
Africans have their own agency. They are able to commit genocide just like white people or actually all humans.
These are just two souls. What about all the death they caused? Good riddance.
The way I heard someone put it is “these are two more of the thousands of tragic deaths caused by Israel’s genocide in Palestine”
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It’s the thing I said would start happening to Jewish folks and Israelis.
Are you conflating Israel and Zionism with being Jewish? Or are you simply suggesting Jewish people might receive collateral damage from Zionism, similarly to Muslims (and Arabs and Sihks and …) after the 2001 WTC attacks?
To help understand the separation of topics.
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Yep dumbass take from the ADHD BP1 hailing from an ancestry consisting of drug addicts.
No surprise there.
