Israelis and their supporters (well, at least the liberal supporters; the conservative ones just scream, “Faster, Israel! Kill! Kill!”) at this point want some way to support a cause they’ve always believed is right in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary, and also consider themselves to be good people afterwards. The things they scream are the things that they want to believe, that they have to believe lest they hate themselves every second of the day.
I feel for the Israeli soldiers who are about to commit unspeakable acts that will weigh on them for the rest of their lives. It’s their job; their sin is not being inquisitive enough to question authority and take a boat to Europe for a long Berlin vacation. The images they’ll see will torment them, and destroy their humanity.
For the pilots, drone operators, and officers giving those IDF grunts their orders to kill mercilessly there can be no sympathy. They can go into Gaza and face the impact of their actions firsthand but are leaving the horrible soul-crushing experience to some 19-year-old kid. I wish there would be a tribunal for their crimes, but I know no justice comes for the tools of the empire.
Israelis and their supporters (well, at least the liberal supporters; the conservative ones just scream, “Faster, Israel! Kill! Kill!”) at this point want some way to support a cause they’ve always believed is right in the face of a mountain of evidence to the contrary, and also consider themselves to be good people afterwards. The things they scream are the things that they want to believe, that they have to believe lest they hate themselves every second of the day.
I feel for the Israeli soldiers who are about to commit unspeakable acts that will weigh on them for the rest of their lives. It’s their job; their sin is not being inquisitive enough to question authority and take a boat to Europe for a long Berlin vacation. The images they’ll see will torment them, and destroy their humanity.
For the pilots, drone operators, and officers giving those IDF grunts their orders to kill mercilessly there can be no sympathy. They can go into Gaza and face the impact of their actions firsthand but are leaving the horrible soul-crushing experience to some 19-year-old kid. I wish there would be a tribunal for their crimes, but I know no justice comes for the tools of the empire.
Sorry
All have free will
These perps, supporters complicit types
too are lost souls!
Americans too
Have you killed any sentient thing?
Even a bird.....?