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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8901280
Kid, look out! He is armed!
when watching this with a conscience, it’s impossible not to think of the many Palestinian parents who’ll never see their kids again, and of the many Palestinian kids who’ll never see their parents again.
fuck this scumbag and his ilk. may all zionists die in pain.
I vaguely remember a story about Israeli hostages that escaped from captivity, and the IDF soldiers lit them up. They just love to kill. Women, children. Medics, journalists. Young American activists, flattened with a bulldozer
Don't forget that the IDF literally partially arose from far-right militia, those being Irgun and Lehi.
The pre-IDF forces killed a Dutch Jew (Jacob Israël de Haan) who was critical of Zionism. The perpetator, Tehomi, was left scot-free and was involved in illegal activities. May he rot in the nothingness.
But that said, what this teaches is that it is the more reason to stand unified: whether someone is a Jew or Israeli or not, does not matter: all that matters is that we stand for humanity and criticise hatred together. Is it not then the stronger, when an Israeli does speak out against their own people repressing Palestinians? Should not all be comrades in arms against hatred and discrimination?
The hostages were even shirtless, to make sure that the IDF knew they weren't threats. They can't even say that they thought the hostages were Hamas; they thought they were Palestinian civilians.
Wait, the IDF shot the Israelis?
Look into the Hannibal Directive
There was an incident when they shot their own hostages, yes. At least once.
What the hell? TIL. Thank you.
The mother of one of the deceased hostages sent a message to the unit involved in the shooting, stating she considered the incident not to be the soldiers' fault. She told the unit she instead placed the blame of her son's death on Hamas, adding: "may their name and memory be wiped off the face of the Earth".
I swear, I hate this god damned world.
may all israelis die in pain.
Nah I don't think all Israelis are genocidal maniacs. Just, uhm, remove the the Zionists and that's it, no need to profile people based on factors they can't control, which is exactly what the IDF are doing in Palestine.
you're right, there's certainly some people born in israel who are good and resist their government. my comment isn't aimed at them. and i wish the same suffering onto non-israelis who support and finance this genocide.
i've changed my comment to reflect what i mean better
Wow, a person accepting criticism and changing their ways. Truly a breath of fresh air in the toxic shithole most of the internet is.
Nah I don't think all Israelis are genocidal maniacs
Only 80%+ as per every poll asking their opinion on whether the IDF should continue to commit genocide.
So I guess somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of Israelis AREN'T fucking monsters.
I don't tend to judge people based on nationality alone (since that's by definition bigotry in almost all cases)and I don't agree that they should all DIE, but when you're part of a population that so overwhelmingly support some of the worst and most thoroughly documented crimes against humanity in history, you're a monster until you prove otherwise by explicitly opposing it.
The term "Zionists" both more accurately captures the genocidal maniacs and includes those outside of Israel.
Last I checked Israeli support for ethnically cleansing Palestine sits well above 50%.
preferring all those who support the genocide and increasing reactionarism to face consequences.
im not an american, but isnt there a thing called gun safety? where u put ur finger off the trigger when nobody evil is around?
idunno tho, only heard about it in a video about resident evil or something.
its twitter so there's a 95% chance the original video was ai anyway
I'm not either but yeah, it's called "trigger discipline"
As stated in the meme, though, a member of the IOF would be trained to see children as dangerous military targets to shoot on sight.
Y'know, its a weird quirk I've noticed, how little I see actual IDF soldiers on video or photo, despite hearing of them all the time. Like full transparency, this is probably the first time I've ever seen one without combat gear on, or at home, or anywhere that isn't just some candid photo in a former battlefield. Even then, I've only seen a handful.
Okay, editing right after posting, it honestly seems this way for pretty much all of Israel. The only actual visual I've seen much of in the news are photos of Netanyahu and the one video where Israel gets hit with an Iranian missile. Even looking up info on Israel seems to prompt a distinct lack of visual insight of anything about the country, much less the people within.
They execute anyone pointing camera at them on sight. They killed 129 press members in 2025 alone.
At the same time Israel has mandatory military service. If you seen Israelis somewhere you've seen IDF.
(Also, sidenote, 129 is the reported number of journalists who got killed. 86 of those journalists were either killed in Israel or killed by the IDF in the war.)
there's a reason.
I speak Hebrew and I watched short form videos made by Israelis.
there's some activists fighting apartheid. but the majority of Israelis are so openly genocidal the west would turn against Israel in a heartbeat if they saw that.
that's why they don't show you that.
It’s shocking to hear interviews with people on the streets. With most countries it seems that there is some separation between the actions of the state and general consensus amongst the people. But with Israelis it seems they mostly gleefully celebrate the genocide, and it seems like they genuinely enjoy coming up with ideas to torture and murder Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims.
82% was in favour of ethnically cleansing Gaza. Instead of addressing the sources of all problems: the institutional apartheid and heavy military censorship as well educational indoctrination.
Israel is not a democracy, no matter how many may attempt to tell that — because not everyone living there can partially participate without:
The list goes on. It's pointless to hate one people; but it has a point to criticise the institutionalised hatred, the system behind this apartheid.
Fuck anyone who willingly joins law enforcement or the military
I was raised in a conservative christian family in the midwest US and I joined the marines at 18 so I can also confirm fuck anyone that willingly joins the military or law enforcement. Luckily I was never deployed anywhere or useful for anything militarily and it was a big wake up call type experience for me
But how will the law be upheld if there is no one enforcing it? Clearly there are communities without the capacity to police themselves.
Oh, no darling, we only have room for infantile absolute positions here on Lemmy, so I'm afraid what you actually just said was that you're glad the idf are committing a genocide and you think the police should shoot more black people.
Silly you!
Well, the people dedicated to enforcing it don't have a very good track record of making it any better. A police officer is physically not capable of preventing a murder, for example, because it is all but guaranteed to be too late by the time they arrive in response to an emergency call.
A police officer is physically not capable of preventing a murder
This doesn't make sense. They've prevented attempted murders. People are convicted of attempted murder and sent to jail by those enforcing the law. They've caught murderers and serial killers before they could kill again, and also sent them to jail.
The system isn't perfect and there are clear bad actors, but the absence of the system would likely be worse for society. If anything, it's a call to make the system stronger to prevent unnecessary death and imprisonment.
Except:
All of the evidence points to the conclusion that the police system, in the overwhelming majority of cases, creates a false sense of justice in which people harm others, get punished with a few years of slave labor for doing so, and the structural reasons that led them to harm others to start with remain unaddressed, leading them to resume the same type of harm but with tactical adjustments made to avoid getting caught again learned through prison socialization.
I sympathize for anyone who gets forced to be in the military. It must suck to have to do that.
Dude was just happy for his streak