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Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- A 24-year-old Israeli soldier living in occupied Safad, called Daniel Edri, set himself on fire yesterday. His burned body was found inside his car in a forest near Safad. Edri had served in both the Gaza Strip and Lebanon during his reserve duty.

The soldier’s mother said: “He told me he had seen horrors and said, ‘Mom, I constantly smell the burned bodies and see them everywhere.'”

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 59 minutes ago

Sadly most of his "brothers in arms" feel nothing but joy when they "wipe out the vermin".

[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 hours ago

Terrible in one sense - but also, a lot more of the criminal Israel soldiers needs to mirror his behavior. Sorry to say, they are choosing to commit horrible acts of violence and murder. Since no one else is stopping them, they should stop themselves, and face the punishment.

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 6 points 4 hours ago

oh waow, he finally did something good congratulations

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

always the option of not participating in burning anyone

[–] loonsun@sh.itjust.works -4 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

Not really an option there unless you feel the country or subject yourself to arrest, everyone is a conscript there isn't really a separation of civilian and military life

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 55 minutes ago

so there really are options, is what you're saying

[–] burgerchurgarr@lemmus.org 2 points 2 hours ago

Obviously this guy would have been better off fleeing the country or going to jail, committing genocide has literally ruined his own life too.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

so just commiting genocide then? no other option.

[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 hours ago

So they need to laugh, while filming themselves killing children and other innocent people?

[–] hologram@cyberplace.social 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

@geneva_convenience
I would not be able to live if I were him either. I feel sad for him, but he did the only thing possible for himself.

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

He finally killed a bad person.

[–] hologram@cyberplace.social 1 points 2 hours ago (2 children)
[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

American who went to colonize Palestine and became an IDF prison guard. Not sure how it's relevant to this article though.

[–] hologram@cyberplace.social 1 points 2 hours ago

@geneva_convenience

There is some missing from the resume they provide.

[–] Outwit1294@lemmy.today 11 points 7 hours ago

Aww. I feel so bad for him. He has such a heavy heart after killing hundreds of civilians.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 32 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

It should have done the only moral thing left and take out his superior officer with him

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 hours ago

Fragging- whoops wrong link, Fragging is an established tradition among invading forces, and one the IDF soldiers would be smart to learn if they want to avoid this suicidal PTSD from perpetrating crimes against humanity on innocent citizens.

[–] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago

Two if possible 2:1 kd

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 23 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

how horrendous is the IDF, that even those commiting it end up dead from the trauma of just witnessing it.

did the Auschwitz guards had this problem?

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It was the problem Auschwitz was designed to solve. There were big mental strains amongst the mobile death squads, particularly on the Eastern Front, basically making themselves completely insane and uncontrollable.

The Death camps were refined to be as humane as possible… for the SS. So the killing involved user-friendly pellets of Zyklon-B being dropped down chutes or through holes in a wall of a gas-tight room. The SS could not see their victims, but could hear them, and no intervention was necessary. It took 20 minutes for the last to die.

Then prisoners on work detail would be forced to clear out the bodies, remove glasses, jewellery, gold fillings, hair, and artificial limbs for later resale on the commercial market, then they would carry the bodies the short distance to the incinerators, and later would dispose of the ashes by burial, dumping in the river or scattered as fertiliser. The SS were supervising, but didn’t need to get too close. It allowed those who chose to do so to put some emotional distance between themselves and the slaughter.

[–] DropBear@theblower.au 8 points 7 hours ago

@IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds @geneva_convenience
@palestine
Most Israelis seem to revel in the bloodshed. Most Israelis probably belong in prison.
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#WarCrimes
#genocide
#Israel

[–] CritFail@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

I seem to remember accounts of Himmler doing CC inspections and being told that the tasks being asked of the guards were having severe impacts on them.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 hours ago

did the Auschwitz guards had this problem?

I hope so

[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

In his death-row memoir, Rudolf Höss discussed the “many suicides” among the men of the Einsatzgruppen and those “who could no longer mentally endure wading in the bloodbath … [and] went mad.” He continued, “Most of the members of the Special Action Squads [i.e., Einsatzgruppen] drank a great deal to help get through this horrible work.”¹⁷

Likewise, SS colonel Paul Blobel, the commander of Sonderkommando 4a, who enjoyed his reputation as “‘an efficient killer of Jews’ as well as a ‘drunk and a monster,’” still attempted to place himself in the rôle of the victim by citing the “psychological trauma” of his experience, in which alcohol became a means for dealing with his participation in genocide.¹⁸

(Source.)

Nevertheless,

There was […] a notable lack of guilt among the top [Axis] leaders, but fear of retribution may well have prompted their suicides.

(Source.)

I have seen plausible claims that camp guards in particular were more suicidal, but I have no proof.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Not really, the SS was selected for cruelty and indoctrination, the IDF is a conscripted army. They didn't put conscripts inside Auschwitz exactly because of this.

[–] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Doesn't matter what they were selected for, traumatic experiences can get to anyone. I know we have this shared history that SS guards were the worst of humanity and boy howdy I'm sure they were awful, but at the end of the day they were still young men. eg Even the most garbage humans in the US military can get PTSD.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

or maybe he was planning to be a whistle blower and they found out.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder what whistle you can blow when they are all doing it in the open and broadcasting it, daring the world to say anything

[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah I was gonna say the whistle blowing is searching for videos of the IDF online. They literally make tiktoks of their war crimes set to some awful music track.

[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 hours ago

Burn in hell haha

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 24 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

There’d be fewer dead people if you’d done this sooner.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Ideally he could have fragged some higher ups, but this will have to do officer-down

[–] hologram@cyberplace.social 1 points 4 hours ago

@barrbaric @geneva_convenience
Who is responsible? Some leave the IDF and are glad they "served"
They are a threat to the world.

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 27 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

Yeah. It's not like you "suddenly" realize you're a Nazi and decide to kill yourself. His brain broke after being a fucking Nazi for so long. Rest in piss.

[–] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 26 points 12 hours ago

I'm so excited to hear about the IDF mental health crisis from all the wonderful journalists

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 22 points 13 hours ago

officer-down

packwatch

May all his buddies deliver upon themselves the people’s justice