Israel’s male flagbearer at Friday’s opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games is believed to have signed bombs prior to them being fired against the Palestinians in Gaza, Anadolu has reported. Peter Paltchik, 32, used social media to show him writing “From me to you with pleasure” on munitions destined for Gaza.

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      Official opening ceremony is on Friday. Some events like soccer and archery start their pool matches and preliminary rounds early.

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    I guess if you deny a country entry into the Olympics based on genocide and apartheid it’s antisemitic

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      Only for Israel…

      South Africa did not compete at Olympic Games from 1964 to 1988, as a part of the sporting boycott of South Africa during the apartheid era.

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        they’ve also taken away medals from athletes displaying signs of solidarity with social justice movements; so yes, very on brand for them.

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      Americans famously signed the first bombs dropped on Japan after peral harbor - and attached the trinkets that were brought by the Japanese peace negotiatiors.

      Of course, the mear existence of the negotiators show that America was taking hostile action aganst japan prior to Pearl Harbor.

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        I love how you’re being down voted for facts lol. Also as an FYI, Americans know nothing about the oil embargoes on Japan and how Indonesia and the Philippines played into japan’s needs. The US choke holded Japan and they had like a year left before everybody would freeze and starve. So Pearl Harbour it was, and they got lucky the US just happened to park all the ships there, they weren’t planning on it. But that news isn’t taught to Americans. They truly believe it was an unprovoked attack out of the blue.