An Israeli reserve soldier who took part in the genocide in Gaza committed suicide on Tuesday in his apartment in the central Israeli city of Rehovot, on the very day of his wedding, according to the Hebrew daily Maariv.
The paper reported that the 31-year-old soldier was scheduled to be married that evening but was found dead in his home after taking his own life. Ambulance crews arriving at the scene pronounced him dead, and police said circumstances remain under investigation.
The incident adds to what Israeli media have described as an alarming rise in suicides among army personnel, especially reservists, since October 2023, when Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza.
Nothing is stopping them from becoming a fragger
true,
there’s also the issue (my guess), that those soldiers have massive PTSD, but refuse to blame apartheid or their own state for it.
they are probably the best people to deprogram. and every single anti apartheid person in Israel is an asset. And there are programs for them like breaking the silence.
Also, I am in no way forgiving them for their crimes. In fact I’m shaming them for their suicide (I was suicidal many times in my life and it’s terrible to blame people for their suicide, but for these cases, I am making an exception). They need to work on toppling apartheid from the inside.
which btw, it’s very close. Israel is barely standing, politically it’s never been more divided internally (albeit the main factions are Genocide apartheid and Liberal genocidal apartheid), but it collapsing is the best chance for apartheid to end.
Franz Fanon does discuss French soldiers who switched sides and instead fought for Algerian independence after witnessing first hand the colonial violence of the French army
Adi Callai, an anti-zionist Israeli, does discuss this in the context of the fight for Palestinian independence in his videos: The Gaza Ghetto Uprising and Franz Fanon vs Identity Politics
I do think there is a place for it, but outside of advocacy groups like Breaking The Silence, I haven’t seen any militancy against the genocide from Israeli soldiers who have broken rank.
Maybe the indoctrination and dehumanization is too deeply ingrained in Israeli society, its already been two years of genocide and I haven’t seen any real indication of such shift
The indoctrination and propaganda are so prevalent in Israel.
Very few countries had half a century of pure propaganda and brandishing like Israel does. maybe North Korea.
I’ll watch that video later.
I just want the genocide and apartheid to end.
North Korea survived a genocidal bombing campaign by the same imperialists that back the Zionist entity doing the current salient genocide. 20% of the population killed, primarily civilians. Every population center bombed to dust and wreckage. All to keep a homegrown organized left from achieving national liberation after Japanese occupation. They economically and socially outperformed the military dictatorship that was occupied South Korea. Then, following the fall of the USSR, nearly all of their trade was cut off (US-backed sanctions have killed at least 20 million in the last few decades per a recent Lancet study). They faced an externally-imposed fuel crisis that killed industrialized agriculture, inducing famine conditions. Maximum pressure on the entire population.
They focused on self-reliance, a doctrine known as Juche, due tot hese very real and material circumstances, and ignorant Westerners have been eating up absurd lies about how the country functions for decades, revealing that they are actually far more propagandized than your typical North Korean.
Please try to keep orientalist anticommunism out of your advocacy for Palestine.
can we agree that genocide in Gaza is terrible and not get into a tankie argument?
as far as I’m aware NK is hell, honestly if it’s all propaganda and NK is a great place to live, I would be happy. but it’s nearly impossible to figure out unless I travel there, which won’t happen.
I didn’t bring this into the conversion and start throwing racist ignorance around. You clearly don’t know anything about North Korea outside of absurd propaganda and are now deflecting from that ignorance, ignoring everything I wrote to you.
Take responsibility for your actions or stop commenting nonsense.