Media wants us to feel sorry for Israeli soldiers who committed genocide and killed 20 people a day.
Not for the Palestinians who suffered genocide
Not for the Iranian families who lost 170 children
Not for the tens of thousands of orphans in Gaza
They want us to weap for the poor helpless Israeli soldiers who have to live with the trauma of knowing they "just followed orders" to mass murder innocent children like Hind Rajab.
Nah—I hope they enjoy their self made hell in this life & the next
@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.
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:
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.
Israeli soldiers returning from Gaza are reporting severe psychological trauma, with some taking their own lives after witnessing what they describe as horrors that the outside world can never trul…
@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.
@phips @liquidlamp in the USA racists often claim to be “color blind”while voicing racist opinions without using obvious markers. Here we have someone who claims Israeli society is intrinsically genocidal but professes that he is not antisemitic.
Actual Israeli opinion is conflicted
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/06/03/views-of-the-potential-for-lasting-peace/
But dehumanizing Israelis as genocidal monsters - on the basis of an article about Israeli soldiers who committed suicide!! Is antisemitic
@phips @vy I appreciate the follow through here. To reiterate your excellent points, I have no issues with jews at all, either as an ethnic group or religion. All people should be treated equally in all things, regardless of race, class, religion, gender or sex. Everyone has the right to choose the path of their own lives.
What i have issues with is a nation that is genociding another, and doing so with a 94% approval rating. That is a horror, and anyone okay with it or making excuses for it is a part of that horror. I wish with all my heart that they would stop this mass murder and extend compassion for the people they have wronged, but i dont see that as a likely outcome.
@liquidlamp @phips Israeli opinion is not static and varies from poll to poll.
https://thejewishindependent.com.au/two-thirds-of-israelis-want-to-end-gaza-war
This is the essentialist core of your argument: you hold tight to that 95% even though it's, at best, a deceptive snapshot. The war in Gaza was deliberately provoked by Hamas, with a unexcusable atrocity in the center of the Israeli peace movement. It was not caused by any urge to commit genocide on the part of Israelis. I'm not excusing the war, I'm challenging your essentialist framing.
@vy @phips did you read the article you posted? It reiterates my point:
>Israelis are less concerned about harm to the residents of Gaza with only 2% of Jews surveyed and 17.5% of Arab Israelis surveyed giving this as their reason for why the war should end.
This is a nation that does not at all care about its genocide of the Palenstian people.
I agree that the start of the war was unjust, but the genocidal total war that has uttery destroyed Palestine and its people and seen limitless atrocities commited by Israel is not an apt or justified response. Genocide is not an acceptable reply to an attack on your nation or any nation, but it is one Isreal is still fully behind.
@liquidlamp @phips Is "less concerned" the same as "intent on genocide" in your eyes?
That "genocidal total war" has not appreciably reduced the Palestinian Arab population of the Levant, for some reason. Not yet, anyways. Between Trump, Netanyahu, Hamas, and Iran, there's no limit on ugly consequences.
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