this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2024
306 points (96.6% liked)

World News

38506 readers
2734 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News [email protected]

Politics [email protected]

World Politics [email protected]


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Do the IDF soldiers stop following these illegal orders at some point? Or have they been desensitized to what they’re doing?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You’re speaking like they don’t want to do this of their own accord?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

if any soldier (IDF or not) refuses orders they will either be shot on site or imprisoned unless they either have enough $$$ or connections to overturn it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nuremberg_defense

(ethics, international law, idiomatic) An explanation offered as an excuse for behaving in a criminal or wrongful manner, claiming that one acted in this way because one was ordered by others (particularly superiors) to do so.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What if the soldiers and superiors stop shooting people on the spot. Okay wait, wait. What if... people stop obeying some lunatic single elderly people that tell us to kill other men, period, and just... not do it?

That would be neat. Imagine if humans knew what it means to be many against few, strong against weak. What we could accomplish...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There was a massive protest by ex military and general public demanding the right of raping Palestinians. This is not about elderly people deploying orders.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

But where are they getting the idea that this is morally correct? Indoctrination. If our governments had no such power to influence its population, and/or limit its access to the truth, we could be so much wiser as a world population.

But it most certainly is, in general, about elderly giving orders. So many soldiers do not want to go to war. You really think the majority of soldiers in the world want to be in a war? That is ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can you cite this for me? I need to read up. Somehow I’ve been understanding that they were protesting in support of the Palestinians.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jesus, you want a citation for this?

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israelis-protest-arrest-of-soldiers-accused-of-gang-raping-gazan-detainee/3288825

There have been protests inside Israel for ceasefire, the org Standing Together has done a lot of good organizing inside the country.

But one thing that Oct.7 accomplished was show the divisions in society wrt Palestinian apartheid. Its getting more difficult for people who can't abide it to coexist with people who are okay with it; and the people who believe there should be even more brutality and violence against Palestinians are becoming a major problem for both of those groups. The state of Israel is fracturing, while groups like the PFLP, Hamas and Fatah are coming together for the first time in decades. While some of the tactics of Hamas are unconscionable, and Fatah has a long collaborationist history with Israel, it definitely indicates a dramatic change of the dynamics in the region. We'll see what holds together and what breaks apart. Its very sad that Marwan Barghouti is currently imprisoned, he's one of the most popular figures in Palestine whereas Fatah and Hamas are fairly unpopular

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People like citation so as to not blindly believe anything and everything they just mindlessly read on the internet. Its kinda suspicious that youre being antagonistic about someone wanting to see a source on an outrageous claim like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I didn't mean it to be antagonistic, and I provided a source. Its just such a disgusting story, bereft of any humanity. I wish I had never heard about it, I just couldn't believe someone wanted to like read about it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What we could accomplish…

a lot outside the military.

there is no such thing as an egalitarian military; they're tools of oppression and hegemony, not improvement.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, no, what I meant was to imagine what we could accomplish as a world population, if we realized that the many outrank the few, and we just stopped fighting each other. That would speed us all along so freaking fast, towards daily food and water and shelter for every single person on earth.

But no, we gotta kill each other for nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No sane military in the world does that anymore. Although I do doubt the sanity of the IDF

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Pat Tillman has entered the chat