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“Clearly, he didn't think the thing was going to explode, or he wouldn't be hitting with a sledgehammer, a sledgehammer that you paid for as an American taxpayer, wearing a uniform you paid for. In fact, everything that soldier has in his possession, you paid for because the entire IDF is paid for by the United States taxpayer.”

“It appeared to show an Israeli soldier, an IDF soldier, using a sledgehammer to smash the face of a statue of Jesus. Now, when people first saw this, we don't have a poll on it or anything, but we can imagine very few thought it was real... But very quickly it emerged, no, this actually was real. And that raised a whole new set of questions, beginning with why would an Israeli soldier want to smash the face of Jesus?”

“One act that one soldier does is somehow emblematic in people's minds of what every IDF soldier is doing. Well, there's no evidence that that is the case, right? So we have to be really careful as Christians and as human beings... to not assume that there's a widespread problem simply because we're seeing one photo of it.”

“In fact, it’s a very common occurrence where the Israeli military desecrates Christian religious symbols and churches and kills Christians. These are not accidents. This adds up to, well, what the SPLC might call a troubling pattern. But in fact, more than a troubling pattern, it's very close to a policy.”

“Clearly, he didn't think the thing was going to explode, or he wouldn't be hitting with a sledgehammer, a sledgehammer that you paid for as an American taxpayer, wearing a uniform you paid for. In fact, everything that soldier has in his possession, you paid for because the entire IDF is paid for by the United States taxpayer.”

“This does not look good at all for the Israelis and it's going to be circulating online in the US as well. We know who will take advantage of this. IRGC accounts already talk about this, post it everywhere. Definitely Hezbollah affiliated accounts. And this is again, another incident that is going to make a lot of bad portraying of the IDF.”

“It appeared to show an Israeli soldier, an IDF soldier, using a sledgehammer to smash the face of a statue of Jesus. Now, when people first saw this, we don't have a poll on it or anything, but we can imagine very few thought it was real... But very quickly it emerged, no, this actually was real. And that raised a whole new set of questions, beginning with why would an Israeli soldier want to smash the face of Jesus?”

“In fact, it’s a very common occurrence where the Israeli military desecrates Christian religious symbols and churches and kills Christians. These are not accidents. This adds up to, well, what the SPLC might call a troubling pattern. But in fact, more than a troubling pattern, it's very close to a policy.”

“One act that one soldier does is somehow emblematic in people's minds of what every IDF soldier is doing. Well, there's no evidence that that is the case, right? So we have to be really careful as Christians and as human beings... to not assume that there's a widespread problem simply because we're seeing one photo of it.”

“This does not look good at all for the Israelis and it's going to be circulating online in the US as well. We know who will take advantage of this. IRGC accounts already talk about this, post it everywhere. Definitely Hezbollah affiliated accounts. And this is again, another incident that is going to make a lot of bad portraying of the IDF.”