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Under the cover of heavy air strikes and artillery shelling, large Israeli ground forces directly and systematically attack homes and buildings used as shelters by displaced families, forcing everyone out at gunpoint.

The buildings, including UN schools and houses, are subsequently either razed or burned by Israeli soldiers to prevent people from returning.

Troops then separate men from women, before taking them to humiliating field interrogations and later abducting many of them to unknown locations.

Women and children are forced to head south of Jabalia refugee camp. Some were bombed and killed as they fled, according to media reports

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago (20 children)

the few moral threads i have remaining regarding the existence of the israeli state are beginning to snap

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (15 children)

What do you suppose is allowing the remaining threads to hold on?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Not op, but: The citizens aren't all or always a reflection of government actions.

Trauma, real or perceived, can cause irrational behavior and beliefs.

Propaganda and methods of behavior control and modification are powerful. Fear of speaking out in a culture of vengeance.

Bibi et al are pure evil. That's certain. IDF: evil. Some citizens: evil.

Some citizens: not evil

That said, the current state of Israeli governance no longer has any validity in any of its words or actions. It must be boycotted, embargoed, sanctioned, and dismantled.

Its leadership must face the judgment of their god for the abominations committed.

After they are judged at the Hague.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Bibi is evil, but he's absolutely a scapegoat for the evil of the Israeli government and even the people, as it is basically never reported in the west how his approval went up after escalating against Lebanon, and he generally is pushed to take more severe (and heinous) action by the bulk of the Israeli people. That's not to say every one of them is a bad person or Bibi is less evil, but every single one who is good is an anti-zionist.

Destroying the state of Israel, contrary to Zionist propaganda, does not mean killing all the Israelis, nor imprisoning them or otherwise punishing them. It means destroying the government apparatus that, from the beginning of its very existence, has been a racial-supremacist settler-colonial entity, and investigating what evidence is turned up in its records and punishing the actual criminals accordingly. Oh, and returning stolen homes where there's anyone still surviving to reclaim them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Some articles on Haaretz just sound like Israelis just now beginning to understand the possibility that Palestinians are human beings.

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