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Linda O's avatar

Humour mitigates tragedy - except in cases like this.

One SS Gaza commentator with a rather large following -"Laura", Normal Island News, 'Parody Account'- has rarely stopped with the 'ironic' gags and is yet perceived to be pro-Palestine.

She gets the factual nooze right, but then makes light of it. Goes down a treat with her fans.

I believe her to be a former BBC employee, which would account for her sangfroid.

In any event, there is no accounting for 'taste' - or the public's ability to be duped and delighted; and delighted in being duped.

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Joshua 7:2-5....go up and view the country. And the men (IDF) went up and viewed Ai. And they returned to Joshua and said unto him. Let not all the people go up: but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labor thither, for they (men of Ai) are but few. So there went up thither of the people about three tausend men: AND THEY FLED before the men of Ai. And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men; for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down; wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water......

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