Israeli Snipers Firing at 'Anyone Who Is Moving' in Khan Younis (www.commondreams.org)
from jeffw@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 26 Jul 2024 02:58
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PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee on 26 Jul 2024 04:45 collapse

Ok at this point I feel like a significant chunk of these atrocities boil down to abject failure to instill discipline.

This isn’t how a well trained soldier behaves, this is how some yahoo who got handed a rifle in a catastrophic failure of vetting and pointed at a crowd and told someone bad is in there behaves.

And I know for a fact that Israel’s military has vetting standards even for conscripts, one of Netenyahu’s cabinet members is noteworthy specifically because he was turned away from military service for being a stark raving mad lunatic who shouldn’t be trusted with a loaded gun.

RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world on 26 Jul 2024 10:50 next collapse

They keep pretending like this Incident before you use a one off thing. However , there is a string of continual atrocities after atrocities starting with reporters being shot back in the first weeks, all the way through bombing hospitals and starving children to today’s horrors.

Netanyahu is the United States and they can’t even stop for that

They’re even using this as an excuse to murder West Bank Palestinians, who had nothing to do with this

They are out to do genocide so they can take the land. It is nothing more than that

roboto@feddit.org on 26 Jul 2024 12:04 next collapse

This isn’t a faulty system, the soldiers are behaving exactly as they’re expected to behave. After all, the goal is a completed genocide.

theacharnian@lemmy.ca on 26 Jul 2024 14:27 collapse

Discipline is a relative term, right? It’s conformance to expectations. I think what we’re seeing is not failure to ensure conformance to expectations, but a shifting of expectations. And in fact this would be very consistent with the genocide charge.