@QasimRashid You should read the article, because they're not saying what you claim they're saying. They're not saying that we should hug an IDF soldier; the clinicians who are being interviewed are saying that this cycle of violence is destroying the psyche of everyone in the region, and that the only logical outcome of this violence will be more violence.

The author and the interviewees are absolutely anti-war, anti-genocide. They see exactly where this all leads.

https://archive.is/aga0E

@Legit_Spaghetti @QasimRashid

The individual regret of genocidal soliders is basically irrevant. They followed the orders to murder innocent people, men, women and children alike. That weight should hang on them for their entire lives, and with any grace, end with them in prison. The fact their goverment pushed them to commit genocide is a form of abuse, and it should be treated with great shame. It still doesnt absolve them of their choice to murder.

Your link looks to have failed so I cant read it, but it seems to be akin to this story from 2024:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241022-israeli-soldiers-commit-suicide-after-seeing-horrors-the-world-can-never-truly-comprehend/

That one is about an armored bulldozer driver that talked about running over hundreds of Palestinians, living and dead, and who evetually killed himself. There is a lot of talk about grief and sadness and plenty of dancing around his murders(maybe he killed someone, maybe some children died....), but it ends with the only revelant sentence:

>Despite the mounting evidence of severe psychological trauma among Israeli soldiers and the devastating personal toll of the genocide in Gaza, recent surveys indicate that only six per cent of Israelis believe that the military operation in the besieged enclave should be halted.

94% of Israels want this to happen. They support it, even as their sons and daughters kill themselves over the heinous acts they have commited. They have no chance of penance and redemption when their entire society clambers for the genocide they commited in its name.

@vy by all means tell me whats antisemetic about qouting a genocidal soliders own words, and the words of his family, about the murders he commited. Please, tell me whats antisemitism about refrencing a poll that Israels partipated in making their desire to keep killing clear. It is not antisemtic to honestly access that Israel, in its own words and actions, feverently supports the genocide of Palestine.

Being jewish doesnt make them murderers, being murderers makes them murderers.

@vy so no actual antisemitism, got it.

If your only defense of genocide is "look, other genocide!" its no defense at all.