Images shared online include Palestinian detainees draped in the Israeli flag and held in stress positions.
  • teft@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1011·
    7 months ago

    “The culture in the military, when it comes to Palestinians, is that they are only targets. They are not human beings. This is how the military teaches you to behave.”

    You would think jewish people, if anyone, would understand the problems that come with the dehumanization of a people.

      • IcePee@lemmy.beru.coEnglish
        292·
        7 months ago

        Also known as “a cycle of violence”. Or " hurt people, hurt people" But at what stage is it someone’s responsibility to break this most vicious of cycles?

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            61·
            7 months ago

            Yup. And if they don’t, it’s everyone else’s responsibility to get in the way. We’re sending the white side weapons, instead.

      • CommanderCloonEnglish
        186·
        7 months ago

        No

        Stop playing into Israel’s game of equating Jews to Israelis.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          112·
          7 months ago

          Israelis ⊂ Jews

          I mean, technically, there are non-Jewish Israelis, but we all know they aren’t in the driver’s seat of anything. There’s definitely non-Israeli Jews, like me, and it’s super shitty they’re making me feel bad about it.

          • CommanderCloonEnglish
            43·
            6 months ago

            No, that’s not my point. You’re saying “The abused have become abusers”, and while yes, israelis are Jews, abused who became abusers, Jews as a whole aren’t represented by israel, so not all the abused became the abusers.

            So my point is that you can’s say “the abused became the abusers”, only some of the abused became so, who are people with a common identity which is distinct to being Jew, and that identity is zionists.

            Zionists are abused who have become abusers, Jews as a whole have not.

            • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              For reference, “⊂” means proper subset. That is, a subset which is smaller to some non-zero degree than the whole set. It sounds like we don’t disagree. Again, I’m in the picture here, if only by blood.

          • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
            24·
            6 months ago

            So in your opinion, all the bad things are done by Jews and non-Jewish Israelis haven’t done anything bad?

            • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
              31·
              6 months ago

              I have no idea what they do. Why would I? They’re insignificant. The Arab parties, for example, are pretty much a footnote in Israeli politics.

    • bartolomeo@suppo.fiEnglish
      111·
      7 months ago

      It’s sick how all Palestinans are referred to simply as “terrorists” by some Israelis, and not just those in the military.