The airman, who filmed the incident and could be heard yelling “Free Palestine,” was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after collapsing to the ground.

The U.S. Air Force member who set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., in an apparent protest against the Israel-Hamas war has died, according to a U.S. official.

Next of kin notification is continuing, so the Air Force won’t release his name until 24 hours after the final notification is complete.

The District of Columbia Fire and Emergency Medical Service Department responded to a call about a person on fire outside the embassy just before 1 p.m. Sunday, and found the flames extinguished by the Secret Service’s uniformed division.

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I don’t see it that way and neither do our other allies.

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That’s you responding to me and our allies. Even Canada disagrees with you.

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Your beliefs’ popularity doesn’t make them correct. The nazis had a majority. They got japan and italy and croatia and hungary and thailand and finland to go along with their genocide. what’s your point?

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Well this is the fucking problem and the reason the guy set himself alight in the first place Sherlock. All western governments are burying their head in the sand if not actively helping with the genocide.

What’s your next perl of wisdom, water wet?

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Did I get tricked by terrorists who use human shields and sympathy as a tactic?

No, it’s the entire diplomatic and intelligence corps of the Western world that’s wrong!

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Sorry, isn’t this like, a fallacy? I couldn’t help but post to be honest.

But like, so they support what you believe in, what does that mean? Does that make you correct? Does that make them correct?

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pearl

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LOL autocorrect.

Perl shouldn’t even be in my dictionary

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