My impression is that this is one of those friendships where they rip on each other as a show of love, as if the intent is demonstrating that they’re so cool with each other that they can say things like that and it’s fine. That’s based on them being on a casual first name basis, anyway.

I do not believe for a second that Israel took measures against these soldiers. This is the military of the country that made celebrities of Israeli troops who sexually assaulted Palestinians on camera. Hell, it was on public record before 10/7 how much the IDF lets its troops get away with atrocities. https://www.972mag.com/israeli-soldiers-impunity-yesh-din/

And the Invasion of Iraq, support for the Gaza Genocide, etc makes America an order of magnitude more evil.

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