Thank you for your response. No, I never heard of either of the other two.
While I don't watch the officially endorsed MSM such as CNN/Faux & etc. or read the NY Times, Washington Post & such, I DO follow a variety of other alternative sources- Yet never heard of either event? "That's interesting", as Captain Jack Sparrow might say.
I don't think the immolation is a very good idea. It is a symbolic act, but he is taking on far more than is necessary, a show at great personal cost to a lot of people about something that they don't care an awful lot about in any case, well not to the extent that Mena does anyway. Then it gets hidden by the MSM so very few are aware of his sacrifice in any case.
It's a tough one Ramin. On the one hand, I don't doubt for a moment the sincerity of his emotional turmoil or his courage. On the other hand, I'm of the view that collective action, loud and proud and preferably out in the open on mainstreet, is the strategy better than individual gesture. I remember the Buddhist monks self-immolating in the street during the Vietnam war. Absolutely shocking, but I don't believe that it hastened the end of hostilities. It seems to me that those with a serious stake in prolonging deadly conflicts have pretty thick skins, almost limitless patience and bottomless ruthlessness. This will be forgotten very quickly, sad to say.
Pardon my ignorance, but who was the 3rd in USA (besides Sam Mena and Aaron Bushnell) to commit self immolation in protest of the Israeli genocide?
He was actually the 4th person - I forgot about the Atlanta case. That person did not have fatal injuries.
Matt Nelson died days after setting himself on fire in Boston outside the Israeli embassy on September 11.
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/man-attempts-self-immolation-at-pro-palestine-protest-near-white-house/3352692#:~:text=Four%20people%20so%20far%20have,The%20person%20was%20critically%20injured.
@Ramin Mazaheri
Thank you for your response. No, I never heard of either of the other two.
While I don't watch the officially endorsed MSM such as CNN/Faux & etc. or read the NY Times, Washington Post & such, I DO follow a variety of other alternative sources- Yet never heard of either event? "That's interesting", as Captain Jack Sparrow might say.
https://youtu.be/DuvGPVjzy9M?si=BT1rxjyTz1yPhrzC
I don't think the immolation is a very good idea. It is a symbolic act, but he is taking on far more than is necessary, a show at great personal cost to a lot of people about something that they don't care an awful lot about in any case, well not to the extent that Mena does anyway. Then it gets hidden by the MSM so very few are aware of his sacrifice in any case.
It's a tough one Ramin. On the one hand, I don't doubt for a moment the sincerity of his emotional turmoil or his courage. On the other hand, I'm of the view that collective action, loud and proud and preferably out in the open on mainstreet, is the strategy better than individual gesture. I remember the Buddhist monks self-immolating in the street during the Vietnam war. Absolutely shocking, but I don't believe that it hastened the end of hostilities. It seems to me that those with a serious stake in prolonging deadly conflicts have pretty thick skins, almost limitless patience and bottomless ruthlessness. This will be forgotten very quickly, sad to say.