cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26226120
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17887604
“Children have been shot in other conflicts I have covered. But never before have I watched as soldiers enticed children like mice into a trap and murdered them for sport.”
- Christopher Hedges American journalist on assignment in Gaza
Israel is a sick society that need dezionistfication.
I’m sure this happened Olin other “conflicts”, but the only other time I know of where this was so rampant was japan during WWII, especially the rape of Nankin and unit 731
I can’t imagine covering something that involves so much child murder. You’ve got to be both extremely passionate about spreading the word of these atrocities while also completely dead inside from all the horror you’ve witnessed firsthand
What makes a soldier hate the enemy so much?
There’s a distinction here. It’s quite natural to hate the person trying to kill you. No matter how you got into the situation. It’s a mental defense mechanism.
What’s usually done to make soldiers hate everyone in an area is to conflate enemies with civilians. Without that hard line between the two it’s really easy to push people into hating everyone and really easy to commit war crimes at that point.
A “healthy” military has strict rules of engagement that reinforce that line. Like not shooting unarmed people unless you can attach them to the enemy somehow. (Every time we get mortared, that guy is filming it and their propaganda videos are from his angle) And even then you’d prefer to capture him for intelligence gains. There’s a clear preference against killing in asymmetric warfare because it causes so many problems. So soldiers learn to hate on demand, basically once you cross the line and become an enemy fighter the hate turns on. Almost like a light switch.
A “sick” military erases that line and prefers killing to capturing. The hate is just turned on all the time. The leadership actively takes steps to conflate civilians and enemies and take advantage of the brain’s defense mechanism to ensure their soldiers shoot anyone who comes close unless they’re under strict orders at the time.
Israel has a sick military that needs to be disarmed.
Indoctrination into a state of racism so severe that they don’t see Palestinians like me as human.
In their eyes, we’re sub human.
That’s how it works. That’s always how it works.
Did every Nazi soldier hate Jews, blacks, gays, Roma, etc? No, of course not. Plenty probably were just hometown soldiers doing what they thought they could. But the atrocities continued regardless, because over time all non-Aryan groups were dehumanized so thoroughly that obviously this isn’t a human standing in front of me, it’s a Bolshevik.
I’m terribly sorry for what is happening to your people and I promise (for what tiny little it’s worth) this rural American has your back
In their own words, “human animals”, pretty similar to the “untermenschen” (sub-humans) that the previous incarnation of a NAZI ideology used to call those they saw as the lower races.
There is no limit to the horrors that ethno-Fascist ideologies (such as Nazism and Zionism) will inflict exactly because their core is Extreme Racism (while Traditional Fascism generally only goes as far as Ultra-Nationalism) which brainwashes its followers to treat targets as non-human.
The same psychological reason that had members of the SS casually murdering men, women and children of the “untermenschen” races is behind members of the IDF casually murdering men, women and children of the “human animal” races.
How a group of people can switch up so fast from oppressed to oppressor is beyond me