!world@lemmy.world does require articles be recent news, within the last 30 days, so I’m hard pressed to see how a history lesson going back decades qualifies.
But since the date on the article IS “29 Jun 2025”, and that is within our requirement, I’ll allow it for now, another mod may not, but eh, it is what it is.
There also seems (to me) to be a lot missing here. Like that time they tried to assasinate the US Ambassador to Lebanon.
“Picked up by Lebanese security, the anti-tank canisters had made-in-America markings. After unanswered telegrams to the State Department and all but silent responses to his telephone inquiries, Dean eventually learned that the anti-tank weapons were sold and shipped to Israel in 1974. Dean apparently mused to himself on the irony of an American ambassador being subjected to an Israeli assassination attempt with American weapons supplied to Israel for defense.”
“I would love to give you an honest answer to that question, but I’m afraid our corporate lawyers just won’t allow it.”
LOL. From a book called “Idiot Letters”. Guy got a card in the mail from Pizza Hut reading “It’s come to our attention that it’s been some time since you enjoyed a Pizza Hut pizza, and that concerns us, because you’re the kind of customer we’d like to see more often.”
To which he responded: “What kind of customer WOULDN’T you like to see more often?”
!world@lemmy.world does require articles be recent news, within the last 30 days, so I’m hard pressed to see how a history lesson going back decades qualifies.
But since the date on the article IS “29 Jun 2025”, and that is within our requirement, I’ll allow it for now, another mod may not, but eh, it is what it is.
There also seems (to me) to be a lot missing here. Like that time they tried to assasinate the US Ambassador to Lebanon.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gunther_Dean
https://www.wrmea.org/2002-november/american-ambassador-recalls-israeli-assassination-attempt-with-u.s.-weapons.html
“Picked up by Lebanese security, the anti-tank canisters had made-in-America markings. After unanswered telegrams to the State Department and all but silent responses to his telephone inquiries, Dean eventually learned that the anti-tank weapons were sold and shipped to Israel in 1974. Dean apparently mused to himself on the irony of an American ambassador being subjected to an Israeli assassination attempt with American weapons supplied to Israel for defense.”
Can we preemptively strike Trump?
“I would love to give you an honest answer to that question, but I’m afraid our corporate lawyers just won’t allow it.”
LOL. From a book called “Idiot Letters”. Guy got a card in the mail from Pizza Hut reading “It’s come to our attention that it’s been some time since you enjoyed a Pizza Hut pizza, and that concerns us, because you’re the kind of customer we’d like to see more often.”
To which he responded: “What kind of customer WOULDN’T you like to see more often?”
Response above.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Idiot_Letters.html?id=tBrhPAAACAAJ