Comment on Does anybody actually care that a dude chanted "Death, Death to the IDF" at Glastonbury?

• 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Have you heard of the Nuremberg trials?

  There is a very strong set precedent that “I was just following orders” does not come close to cutting it.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The IDF will never be held responsible for their actions the Israeli government that ordered them should be

  You see zero irony and n that comment?

  Like, Israel spent decades going after anyone tangentially connected to the Holocaust…

  It was just a couple years ago they prosecuted someone in their 90s who was forced to be a teenage secretary for a nazi.

  And you’re legitimately implying:

  The soldiers committing genocide were just following orders. We can’t judge them for what they’re actively doing , which is committing a genocide

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• darkdemize@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Individuals who commit war crimes can and should be held responsible for their actions. “Just following orders” wasn’t a valid excuse for the Nazis, and it shouldn’t be one for the IDF.

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