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U.S. Warns A Gaza Ceasefire Would Only Benefit Humanity (www.theonion.com)

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“We know there are voices across the world calling for a ceasefire, but what everyone needs to understand is that the only people who stand to gain from halting the bombing campaign are people who deeply value human life,”

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Funny-sad-real.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

“You honestly didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Few people ever cried more than once, if you’d used that up, you laughed.”

—Michael David Herr, Dispatches (1977) (writing for Esquire during Vietnam War)