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Earlier this week, a 25 year old active-duty member of the U.S. Air Force walked up to the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C. and lit himself on fire. “I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest,” Aaron Bushnell said just before the act. “But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. Free Palestine!” He succumbed to his injuries Sunday evening. Nearly five