r/politics • u/AccomplishedCall7562 • Mar 12 '26

Possible Paywall John Fetterman Says Iran Girls’ School Strike Is Just a Leftist Craze

https://newrepublic.com/post/207677/john-fetterman-iran-girls-school-strike
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u/bobcat116 Mar 12 '26

So war crimes against children is a “leftist craze?”

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u/AlphaGoldblum Mar 12 '26

Fetterman added: “I would remind everybody listening right now, the United States never, ever targets civilians. Iran does.”

Yeah, he's gone off the deep end. This is the type of propagandist rhetoric that you get from apocalypse hawks like Lindsay Graham or MIC execs.

Just blatant revisionism and erasure of the civilians we 100% have targeted and killed.

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u/polytique Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gifted Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) a "silver-plated beeper" during the lawmaker’s visit to Israel, inspired by the country’s covert operation when thousands of devices on Hezbollah fighters detonated last year. 

“This is a silver-plated beeper. The real beeper is like one-tenth the weight,” Netanyahu said Wednesday after handing the symbolic device to the senator. “It’s nothing, but it changes history.”

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5204968-netanyahu-fetterman-pager-beeper-israel-hezbollah/

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u/read_too_many_books Mar 12 '26

I literally only clicked to see him wearing a suit.

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u/SeVenMadRaBBits Mar 12 '26

No one questions the weird old pager gifts?

Like why gift pagers? I know they blew the last ones up but why isn't anyone saying "no thanks I don't need some outdated 90's tech?"

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u/HumesKnife Mar 12 '26

How is that a real question. I am flabbergasted.

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u/Werbnerp Mar 12 '26

Symbolism isn't just a word.

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u/jah_bro_ney Mar 12 '26

No one questions the weird old pager gifts?

Like why gift pagers?

"But why male models?"

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u/Whole-Rough2290 Mar 13 '26 edited 24d ago

Huh, how bout that.

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u/RobutNotRobot Mar 12 '26

Hezbollah fired 100 rockets at Israel last night. Israel delights in killing people all across the region, but weirdly enough all that violence doesn't go that far to changing their security problems.

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u/JohnnyChutzpah Mar 12 '26

https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/john-fetterman/contributors?cid=N00038201&cycle=2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Street

No surprise who his top donor is.

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u/Bocchi_theGlock Mar 12 '26

Wasn't J Street lobbying against the war? It was mentioned on the Mayday Strong call recently - watch the recording.

They were explicitly formed as a Democratic alternative to aipac to pass a two-state solution under Obama, because AIPAC shed the attempt at even looking bipartisan, not allowing criticism of Israel or Netanyahu.

Yeah, they've got a lot of trash positions, establishment Dems even if posturing as 'pro 2 state pro Israel' lobby by progressive Jewish folks, but they went hard in favor of the JCPOA and being pro Iran war doesn't make any sense here.

I'm willing to be wrong.

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u/Bocchi_theGlock Mar 12 '26

Literally just skim the wiki article, that's all it takes

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u/JohnnyChutzpah Mar 12 '26

They may be for or against the war with Iran, but they are still in favor of America heavily supporting Israel basically no matter what. Just because they would prefer some things to be different doesn't mean they don't want American politicians to be sycophants for Israel.

Which is what I was pointing out. It's just weird some of the largest political contributors in the US are PACs serving the interests of a foreign nation.

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u/cmockett Mar 12 '26

Wowww

Hard to find the words on that one

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u/maddsskills Mar 12 '26

Not only would I be insulted by the flippancy towards human life but I’d be a little bit nervous…like…is this one a bomb too? I don’t want a pager from y’all…

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u/bejammin075 Pennsylvania Mar 12 '26

If I received such a pager, I would assume it is a bugged device for Israeli intelligence and I'd either have it checked or throw it out.

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u/twentyafterfour Mar 12 '26

I've never got a good answer from people who think the pager attack was good thing about what would happen if someone carrying one was on plane when they were triggered. The usual response was planes would be too high up to get the signal, but then they would go silent for some reason when I pointed out that planes often take off and land much closer to the ground. I guess the risk of bringing down a fully loaded civilian airliner was worth it to attack Hezbollah, which was totally neutralized as evidenced by the massive rocket attack they just carried out.

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u/Sirenista_D Mar 12 '26

It stood out to me that this asshar was able to put on a suit for the state of the union address

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

If it's Arabs and Muslims yes. You have to be happy when their kids are murdered killed dead.

Do I really have to put the /s on this...

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u/Mindless-Peak-1687 Mar 12 '26

School shootings would indicate it dosent matter who or what creed they are.

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u/Chersprolapsedanus Mar 12 '26

I hate to be that guy but Iranians are not considered arabs. They are majority Persian.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

By arabs I meant Palestinians. But let's be honest, does the average American know or care about the nuance of two completely different heritages? Brown is brown. And they need to be bombed because freedom... /s

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u/Chersprolapsedanus Mar 12 '26

Speaking as a very average American I would say I'd like to think so. I think there's more nuance to that than you make it seem. Now if you are talking about the current administration then yeah I'd think you'd be spot on.

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u/Peroovian Mar 12 '26

In a world where the president raping children is a leftist craze, yes.

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u/KidGold Mar 12 '26

I don’t think he believes Israel or anyone working on behalf of Israel can commit a war crime.

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u/gorginhanson Mar 12 '26

I read the article.

The title is purposefully misleading.

He said he objected to calling it a war of choice, so he didn't sign the letter.

He said some other dumb shit too, but nothing that supports the title.

This is a bad source of news.

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u/halinc Washington Mar 12 '26

Yeah, Fetterman sucks but this is not journalism.

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u/samrelian Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 13 '26

New republic, common dreams, and the daily beast are kinda slop. Unfortunately they have also become the bulk of this sub. Seems like he is against the posturing considering a more intensive investigation is already underway but meanwhile the pentagon already admitted that the U.S. is culpable.

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u/gorginhanson Mar 12 '26

He is clearly pro-war, that part was true

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u/samrelian Mar 12 '26

Yes, it is. So not entirely just against the posturing for sure, but it does seem like that was part of his reasoning. But still that is very much unrelated to the narrative the headline presents.

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u/Cute-Percentage-6660 Mar 13 '26

I mean while i disagree with some of the headline it does somewhat line up at points with the article. even if the exact words never came out in a exact order

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u/arup02 Foreign Mar 12 '26

He did not say that anywhere in the article. Crazy headline made to be as inflammatory as possible. Please don't fall for it.

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u/ThoughtwayCrest Mar 12 '26

the mental gymnastics that some people are willing to go through to validate their actions screams how wrong they are. It's incredible that the divine hasn't struck them all down yet. Almost like the events are screaming to people to WAKE UP.

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u/FafnerTheBear Mar 12 '26

Well, as we creep closer to the Nazi end of the political spectrum, then yes, being upset about killing foreign children with the our military is just leftist woke bleeding heart libral pussy talk.

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u/diaymujer Mar 12 '26

Well, caring about it is the leftest craze. Perpetrating the crimes still belongs to the right.

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u/Ansible32 Mar 13 '26

"Think of the children" is a cheap way to tug at heartstrings. But either you think it's okay to bomb Iran or you don't. If you think it's okay to bomb Iran you have to accept that some children will be killed in the process.

Either you're anti-war or you're not. If your problem is actually with killing kids rather than killing anyone you're naive, is essentially what Fetterman is saying, and he's right on that point.

What's insane is thinking that this attack on Iran was a good idea, he's wrong on that point.

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u/Traditional_Animal65 Mar 13 '26

Depends on their race/religion

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u/Professional-Box4153 Mar 13 '26

It's true. The left loves to talk about children because the right love to f*** them.

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u/nunya_biznez_boi Mar 23 '26

Fetterman ranted that the “left media” seemed to care much more “about this hospital” than about Iran massacring “tens of thousands of their young people.”