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Foreign Politicians and Celebrities: Kindly Keep Your Biased Posts Away From Our Conflict
A reminder to influencers that their tweets have consequences and should refrain from speaking about things they don’t understand.
During my first week in the Israeli Defense Forces — over fifteen years ago — a bomb dropped in the base I served in, less than three hundred feet from where I was standing on open ground.
I was temporarily deafened and a little bit in shock, but I survived. Any time there are rockets fired at Israel, my mind takes me back to that one moment. People around me are screaming. Recruits abandon all training and running ahead to find a safe place from the ricochets. People are crying and losing control — both mentally and physically.
That’s why I find it so horrifyingly ignorant when influencers who don’t even live in either Israel or Gaza — use their platforms to denounce us.
As I’m sitting in a shelter right now, I have some time on my hands, and god knows I won’t be sleeping soundly tonight. So, let me share my unbiased opinion — even though I am, in fact, an Israeli citizen who supports the IDF — and why I think you should focus on your own problems before diving in and meddling in ours.
