• Reality_Suit@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    So IDF suffered from PTSD while Palestinians suffered from death. Who am I supposed to feel bad for?

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      Like Frankie Boyle said about the US: “Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people, they’ll come back twenty years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.”

      Conflicted IDF soldiers can always frag their officers and desert. Otherwise, they can have what sympathy I have left for them after thinking of the Palestinians.

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    The Nuremberg trials established that “I was just following orders” does not excuse war crimes. Something for them to think about before they start shooting, maybe.

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      The Nuremberg trials prosecuted only 24 people, all of whom were very high level Nazis. This number goes up to around 1700 if you count the subsequent tribunals also held at Nuremberg.

      To a first approximation, the treatment of the rank and file was a polite agreement to politely ignore their involvement and move on.

      We tried the collective punishment thing after world war 1 with the treaty of Versailles. The impact of that is still a subject of debate, but some historians draw a direct line from it to the Nazis.

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    Theyd rather commit suicide instead of trying to use their armaments to fix their leaders head in a blaze of glory? I was going to say we were losing the only ones with hearts in there but its more likely they are just stupid…

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    Fuck 'em. If they’re really against committing genocide then follow in Aaron Bushnell’s footsteps. Otherwise, good riddance.

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    They‘re not alone! Many grandpas who hardly ever talked were a common thing in Germany.