Sadly most of his "brothers in arms" feel nothing but joy when they "wipe out the vermin".
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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.
oh waow, he finally did something good
always the option of not participating in burning anyone
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
so there really are options, is what you're saying
Obviously this guy would have been better off fleeing the country or going to jail, committing genocide has literally ruined his own life too.
so just commiting genocide then? no other option.
So they need to laugh, while filming themselves killing children and other innocent people?
@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.
He finally killed a bad person.
@geneva_convenience
btw
who is Jeff Goldberg?
https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/about-us/jeffrey-goldberg
American who went to colonize Palestine and became an IDF prison guard. Not sure how it's relevant to this article though.
Aww. I feel so bad for him. He has such a heavy heart after killing hundreds of civilians.
It should have done the only moral thing left and take out his superior officer with him
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?
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.
@IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds @geneva_convenience
@palestine
Most Israelis seem to revel in the bloodshed. Most Israelis probably belong in prison.
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#WarCrimes
#genocide
#Israel
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.
did the Auschwitz guards had this problem?
I hope so
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.
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.
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.
or maybe he was planning to be a whistle blower and they found out.
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
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.
Burn in hell haha
There’d be fewer dead people if you’d done this sooner.
Ideally he could have fragged some higher ups, but this will have to do
@barrbaric @geneva_convenience
Who is responsible? Some leave the IDF and are glad they "served"
They are a threat to the world.
Still no sympathy for him
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.
I'm so excited to hear about the IDF mental health crisis from all the wonderful journalists
May all his buddies deliver upon themselves the people’s justice