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The Syrian army put down a political 'rebellion' in the city of Hama in 1982. Somewhere between 7 and 30,000 people were killed. Compare that to 1970 when Yasser Arafat tried to overthrow the Jordanian King. The ensuing civil war killed about 30,000 Palestinians and Jordanians. Compare that to the 1962 Egyptian war in Yemen which has a documented history of the Egyptian army using chemical weapons on civilian populations. Compare that to the fundamentalist war in Algeria in the 1990s where upwards of 150,000 people died in the sectarian violence. Compare that to the end of the Libyan-Chad war where there is documented evidence that Libya used chemical weapons on civilian populations.
Please spare me the purported outrage and handwringing of the anarcho-terrorist sympathizers. It's all straight up fucking bullshit. Unless and until they hang a Jew for it, it doesn't exist. So fuck 'em and their agitprop.
