Police are investigating whether the suspected terrorist arrested for fatally shooting two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington, DC, blasted out an anti-Israel manifesto online in the lead-up to the bloodshed, law enforcement sources told The Post.
Elias Rodriguez, 31, had allegedly chanted “Free, free Palestine” just moments before he confessed to gunning down the couple outside the Capital Jewish Museum late Wednesday, cops said.
As investigators probed a motive behind the horrific antisemitic bloodshed, cops were homing in on a 900-word manifesto bearing Rodriguez’s name that started circulating online immediately after his arrest, the sources said.
In addition to trying to determine the document’s authenticity, authorities were trawling through Rodriguez’s electronic devices and probing whether he was self-radicalized, according to sources.
The missive, which was apparently dated May 20 — a day before the slayings — appeared to suggest the killings were an act of political protest ignited by the war in Gaza.
“An armed action is not necessarily a military action. It usually is not. Usually it is theater and spectacle, a quality it shares with many unarmed actions,” the document reads.
The alleged manifesto went on to suggest that those “of us against the genocide” have “forfeited their humanity.”
“But inhumanity has long since shown itself to be shockingly common, mundane, prosaically human. A perpetrator may then be a loving parent, a filial child, a generous and charitable friend, an amiable stranger, capable of moral strength at times when it suits him and sometimes even when it does not, and yet be a monster all the same,” the writings state.
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