Sympathy for their PTSD

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• alleycat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Link to the original article.

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• deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I hope these IDF soldiers wake up. You can’t kill people without killing part of yourself.

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  • 4lan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m seeing so many parallels to our false wars in the Middle East. The vast majority of US soldiers who died did so by suicide.

    Also netanyahu trying to create more generations of terrorism so he can have forever wars that keep him in absolute control. That’s literally what we did, he is copying us play by play

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    • orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The violence in that region predates both Iraq wars. Israel has no need to copy the U.S. here. It’s important to remember that the situation is multiple generations of on-again-off-again violence, except now the scale is way up on the killings.

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  and if he had refused to do as commanded would he have been shot himself?

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  • orcrist@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If the army starts shooting its own soldiers, it’s not going to exist for very long. You can read very obscure stories about occasional killings during the Vietnam War, but those are almost always things that happened in the jungle when nobody would ever find out.

    If they try that kinda thing in Israel today, it’s not going to be a secret, and all of the other infantry and their family are going to wonder who is next, which in turn would massively reduce support for the Israeli military.

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    • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      there was a story of an iraq war soldier killed by his own squad a couple years ago. thats what put the thought in my head

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  • 4lan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No he would sit in a jail cell. As a trained soldier.

    Essentially a perfectly risk-free environment. But he chose murder instead

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• Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So, I hate to be this guy for Israel. But there are legal ways for this to have happened. I know the first picture in all of our heads is them running over prisoners. But it is a valid tactic to collapse your enemies trenches or building on top of them. The US has been doing that since at least Vietnam. Armored bulldozers are, of course, uniquely pretty good at this tactic. Although it is usually a tank with a bulldozer blade attached to the front.

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  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Rachel Corrie

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      She was also a long time ago. Why not use the unarmed American they shot in the head recently?

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  • Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “Everything squirts out,” he added.

    Zaken says he can no longer eat meat, as it reminds him of the gruesome scenes he witnessed from his bulldozer in Gaza

    Yeah. This ain’t that.

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That logic doesn’t follow. Did you think collapsing a trench means you don’t see anything?

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  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Here is a video of the soldier in the bulldozer with his friend in gaza bragging they destroyed 5000 houses files.catbox.moe/sgmc5b.mp4

    The friend already killed himself.

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    • RunawayFixer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They’re gloating about it, absolute monsters.

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s not a great visual. But the house was clearly already badly damaged and had explosives in it. This is standard for combat clean up. We can certainly talk about why 5,000 houses were damaged bad enough to need demolition though.

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  • Dragonstaff@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m sure this guy operates his bulldozer with all of the care and concern for innocent human life as the IDF bombing campaign that by their own reports have killed twice as many civilians as militants.

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    • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yup, they get very little benefit of doubt at this point. I’m just pointing out that it’s not 100 percent straight to war crime from this description.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Except we already know that they were doing this.

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• half_built_pyramids@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sympathy for the devil

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