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[–] nonentity 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Some have labelled Israel as a rogue nation, but their actions are explicitly and implicitly condoned through other nation’s support and silence.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (9 children)

I don't think that's really the case though? I'm pretty sure most nations condemned Israel except for USA, but USA blocked all attempts from anyone to do anything. And when USA says that commiting genocide with their weapons is on the table, I doubt any country wishes to find out what would happen should any concrete action against Israel be taken. It's a big part of the reason why everyone calls USA complicit in genocide of Palestinians.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I have no reason to believe Germany's government condemns Israel's actions right now, and the way they always point out its right to defend itself, I suspect they actively condone them..

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah well Germany does seem a bit anxious for some reason when someone mentions Israel and genocide in one sentence, but if anyone in the world should have any reasons to be unreasonably pro-Israel, that would be them. And even then, their performative support pales in comparison to USA. IDF literally murdered USA citizens and USA congratulated them for that. That takes real dedication to the cause!

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[–] can 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Aww, poor war criminals

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Shooting and Crying

Gil Hochberg described "shooting and crying" as a soldier being "sorry for things I had to do." This "non-apologetic apology" was the self-critique model advanced in Israel in many politically reflective works of literature and cinema as "a way of maintaining the nation's self-image as youthful and innocent. Along with its sense of vocation against the reality of war, growing military violence, occupation, invasion, [there was] [...] an overall sense that things were going wrong."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting read thanks.

Karen Grumberg noted that "the Zionist soldier, a man with a conscience, loathes violence but realizes he must act violently to survive; the dilemma causes him to weep while pulling the trigger. Looking inward, he despairs at the violence he feels compelled to enact this way because he fears his moral corruption."

Amir Vodka wrote "It typically depicts the IDF in a critical light, as a traumatizer of young soldiers, yet the genre itself is often criticized for turning the assailants into victims, and in a sense allowing the continuation of war under the guise of self-victimization."

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Oh, I can't wait for the sympathy piece on Auschwitz guards to drop any day now. They must have seen some very, very, very difficult things too, poor souls.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I hope not that he dies but that he lives to watch everything he cares about crumble to dust as he is powerless to the winds of change

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)
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[–] Disaster 8 points 1 month ago

Just as Chris Hedges predicted.

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