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Far from being "invincible," the IDF's morale is broken. Snip:

After a year of committing genocide in Gaza, more and more Israeli soldiers are quietly refusing orders to return to the strip to fight, saying they are depressed, worn out, psychologically damaged, and unmotivated, according to a report by Ha-Makom magazine published on 20 October.

The ultra-Orthodox-oriented magazine interviewed multiple soldiers and parents of soldiers who refuse to return to Gaza. When a platoon of 30 soldiers of the Nahal Brigade was recently ordered to enter Gaza for the latest of several tours, only six reported for duty.

“I call it refusal and rebellion,” says Inbal, the mother of one of the soldiers in the platoon.

“They return to the same buildings that they cleaned, each time trapping them anew. They have been to Al-Zaytoun neighborhood three times already. They understand that it is futile and pointless.”

Although they had only a fifth of their personnel, the commander still insisted they enter Gaza.

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[-] Seasonal_Peace@hexbear.net 6 points 43 minutes ago

Hope the resistance helps them to get rid of that mental damage by adding physical damage.

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 3 points 18 minutes ago

They should crawl into a hole and die. barbara-pit

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 1 points 12 minutes ago

God I wish the tank in that picture would fire

[-] footfaults@hexbear.net 59 points 3 hours ago

did-someone aww did someone commit war crimes that haunt their conscience?

[-] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 37 points 3 hours ago

same thing that happened with this nazis, iirc this is why gas chambers were used. so they couldn't physically see their victims while it happened

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 4 points 21 minutes ago

That's why they're using bombing runs, too.

[-] Skeleton_Erisma@hexbear.net 38 points 3 hours ago

I would simply stop being settlers committing a genocide but ya know.

[-] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 24 points 3 hours ago

Does this mean some shoot-and-cry war movie treat in a decade or two, or a P R E S T I G E T V treatment to blur the morality of it all and give a lot of quips to make the atrocity enjoyers seem relatable?

[-] take_five_seconds@hexbear.net 33 points 4 hours ago

Shoot and cry

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 33 points 4 hours ago

Boo fucking hoo.

[-] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 40 points 4 hours ago

Yah know you could just spot participating in a genocide, that'd probably do wonders for your mental health shrug-outta-hecks

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 20 points 3 hours ago

Bibi and US media: Isreal military infested with antisemitic Jews! Don't think about it too hard, just send more weapons!

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 30 points 4 hours ago

Frag yourself and frag everyone around you

[-] vegeta1@hexbear.net 16 points 3 hours ago

Now imagine how the citizens of countries you're attack are.

[-] qocu@hexbear.net 24 points 4 hours ago

We need those rookie numbers of suicides due to depression to start increasing.

[-] SteamedHamberder@hexbear.net 29 points 4 hours ago

They’re just gonna call in blackwater next month.

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 37 points 4 hours ago
[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 27 points 4 hours ago

Is this cause they are getting their shit rocked, or is it that they are human and are traumatized from following orders? I dunno which would be the better answer. I’m just glad Israel is falling apart

[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 37 points 3 hours ago

The latter, probably. People fundamentally do not handle horror and atrocity well, no matter how eagerly they dive into it or how loudly they beat their chest and bay for blood. It's something inherently corrosive and destructive that can't just be warded off by being a bloodthirsty fascist genocidaire.

I struggle to articulate how absurd and evil it is, that they're eagerly destroying themselves just to spill more blood, just to slaughter and spread terror and death and misery for the sake of monstrous fascist ideals. Self-interested evil is horrible enough, but they're beyond even that, it's just death and horror for the sake of death and horror and fascist supremacy. All they have to do is not fucking do that, it's in their best interests to not fucking do that, but their twisted fascist ideology demands they sacrifice themselves for the sake of genocide.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 17 points 3 hours ago

Maybe this is a bit irrelevant, but do you ever think of the Red Army seeing the absolutely vile atrocities the Nazis were doing, and how they found the will to keep going to stop them at all costs? I wonder if it's more demoralizing than not, I can only imagine that finding death camps with piles of childrens' clothing with their owners nowhere to be found has to really make you feel like any semblance of good in the world you're fighting for has already been lost.

And I guess it's just crazy that the Zionists are fighting to create that world, to create a world where the most defenseless are thrown to the mass graves and forgotten. How have they found the will to make it this far? How can fascist ideology push people to do as much harm as they've already done without putting a bullet through their CO's skull and then their own? Isn't it too much after you kill the second or third kid?

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 8 points 1 hour ago

Isn't it too much after you kill the second or third kid?

For the last 80 years they've been told that the people they're killing aren't human beings. At a point they check out and are okay with it.

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 8 points 3 hours ago

It's the first one. It's not that they see the people they're fighting as human, it's that they keep getting washed and burned out.

[-] KobaCumTribute@hexbear.net 18 points 3 hours ago

It's not that they see the people they're fighting as human

I'm saying that's not a shield against it. Genocidaires dehumanize their victims and they still get fucked up by their own actions and what they're taking part in. It's not about morals or consciences or anything like that, it's just people not handling that sort of violence and horror well at a fundamental level. That's not to say "oh it makes them sad, it makes them unhappy, it makes them regretful" because it can just as easily make them worse and more violent and unstable, it's just to say it's something that actively attacks and corrodes their own humanity. They can psych themselves up and dehumanize their victims and beat their chest as loud as they want, as loud as they need to to push themselves to actually do it, but they're still going to be broken by it in some way.

This isn't something original to Israel, obviously, though that provides a very clear and visible example of a population trying to keep themselves whipped into a bloodthirsty frenzy and breaking at the seams because of it. I know it happened to the Nazis too, and that there's research on that and how Nazi ideology tried to recuperate that self-destruction through violence by lionizing it and making it a pillar of their ideology. I'd assume it's just a universal phenomenon, that such violence just kind of does that to people regardless of how they try to psych themselves up and cope with it.

[-] GlueBear@hexbear.net 3 points 22 minutes ago

I mean some people that work at abattoirs have PTSD, it's not unique to seeing humans slaughtered.

I think both things are true. The same way someone who works in the business of slaughtering barn animals won't go vegan or even vegetarian, even if they have PTSD.

It's got almost nothing to do with "seeing too much slaughter" in the case of the iof. It's actually laughable (and sad) that some people on this site really think those people are somehow getting tired and traumatized by the genocide.

The iof literally say why they're feeling this way, it's quoted in the article

"They return to the same buildings that they cleaned, each time trapping them anew. They have been to Al-Zaytoun neighborhood three times already. They understand that it is futile and pointless.”

They feel that they're doing meaningless busy work that's also getting them killed. Mind you, if they thought their slaughter was actually doing something they'll happily keep it up so long as they're not getting fucking washed by resistance fighters.

[-] MattsAlt@hexbear.net 14 points 4 hours ago

Definitely the first, the West doesn't want to die for treats

[-] FunkYankkkees@hexbear.net 31 points 4 hours ago
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