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Israeli soldier who fought in Gaza commits suicide on his wedding day, exposing army’s deep crisis
(www.middleeastmonitor.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2025
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Looking at my own history that is hard to do. Few people have the psychological strength to resist participating.
And that is not a failing unique to them. Lots of people I know did bad things while in uniform and regretted it years later.
The thing is that i don't believe he committed suicide because he regrated participating just like Hitler didn't kill himself because he regrated the holocaust
Most people who participate in war crimes live on. The criminals become part of the problem regardless of what they would choose earlier. Sometimes this does utterly break people. But not often.
We are talking about a genocidal state and terrorist army here
Yes, and unfortunately many ordinary people can do that.
I live in Texas, and have been long listening to the stories of people who committed American war crimes .
I have no problem with soldiers who really regret their crimes and atone what they are done by participating in humanitarian stuffs . This soldier committed suicide rather than doing that so nothing of value was lost
Most people who do war crimes should die. Most people believe this so long as the war criminals aren't white.
"It's hard to not be a genocidal colonizer if you grow up that way".
No it isn't. It's just unlikely to actually happen at all because a genocidal colonizer society brings people up in that culture. It is not difficult, and is even a passive thing to do, to simply not support that effort. Even just refusing to join the IDF just nets you a few months in a cushy "prison" and slightly limits a professional networking opportunity (yes, they think that way). Compare that to the alternative, which is actively partaking in genocide colonialism.
Sympathize with the oppressed, not the oppressors.
Cool straw man you were building there.
It's not at all a straw man. They literally said, in reference to settler colonialism and genocide, "Few people have the psychological strength to resist participating."
Look fascist sympathy right in the eyes.