I genuinely thought this was hyperbolic satire.
EDIT: Outlet has edited headline since time of posting.
Oh how I long for the sweet bitter taste of ironic onion.
But nope. Way to much actual meat and gristle in this story.
Fuck these people who keep thinking the suffering of others is good for internet engagement.that’s a weird way to spell “israeli soldiers commit a war crime”
Yet another one
This is nanking tier shit.
My Lai, except the thought police are already rolled out, and ready to prosecute/persecute anyone who complains.
Ethnic Genocide is now fully Normalized in Israel.
In some ways this is actually beyond Nazi Germany, were the actual perpetrators of the genocide did not make a public show of their murdering of the people they saw as untermenschen.
This kind of thing is a pretty good indication that there is far broader acceptance (glee, even) amongst the Israeli population for Genocide than there was amongst the German population in Nazi Germany.
I wonder what if nazi germany had access to social media, recommendation algorithms, bots, etc… influencing masses has never been this easy in history
From what I’ve heard the extreme racism is generalized in the Mainstream Press in Israel, so I’m not sure that it’s the Social Media that’s making Genocide along ethnic lines be more broadly accepted there than it was in Nazi Germany.
That said, the fables in Israel around “The Jewish People” and its identity with the Palestinians as “antagonists”, have been spun for far longer and the antagonism has been going on for far longer (since the creation of the state of Israel) than the ones in Nazi Germany with Jews as “antagonist”, so maybe the much longer time (about 70 years) during which Israelis have been indoctrinated about their own ethnic superiority and the “antagonism” of Palestinians in Israel compared to the length of the similar indoctrination of the population in Nazi Germany, is the main cause for the more broad acceptance of Genocide amongst the populus in Israel than in Nazi Germany.
If you’ve grown up hearing about how you’re part of a superior people (“God’s chosen people”) and Palestinians are The Enemy who hate you and want you dead, and your parents too grew up like that, you’re probably far, far, more likely to be an extreme racist that trully believes themselves to be inherently superior and that Palestinians as not really human like themselves - hence having zero empathy for the suffering of Palestinians and maybe even relishing in it - than somebody who has only been exposed to similar shit for a decade or two.
Aw! It’s Satan gray! No wait, its pure evil blue, its a trump!. Nah! If you look closely you’ll notice all the buildings belonged to poor defenseless people. So it’s probably a rich evil asshole!
Ok, so that was horrifying that they treated it so lightly, but this headline seems slightly inaccurate.
It seems they were not blowing it up for a ‘gender reveal’, but instead were blowing it up otherwise and something in the building produced blue smoke, and they found the resemblence hilarious.
Al Jazeera must have updated/corrected it. The title of the post was the original headline.
That’s not a good look for Al Jazeera.
Al Jazeera is always extremely anti Israel. The Arabic version even more so than the English one.
You’d have to be an asshole not oppose country based on settler-colonialism and ethnic cleansing
You’d have to be an asshole not oppose country based on settler-colonialism and ethnic cleansing
…and yet, being anti-Israel was considered a far-right neo-Nazi position not that long ago. It became acceptable again from the start of the current flare up (the current fighting isn’t something new, it’s been going on and off for decades). Before that, anti-Israel meant anti-Jew meant obviously Nazi. It’s wild how when things change so many people will just quietly drop the old narrative and pretend it never existed. We’ve always been at war with Eurasia and all that.
The reality is that the US supports Israel, has for a long time and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. It’s not because of being pro-Jew or wanting to ethnically cleanse Arabs, it’s because they’re our only real ally in the Middle East and thus we’ll remain safely on their good side unless and until we get a strategically more useful ally in the Middle East. Then keeping them happy becomes less important.
Jews have opposed Israel since before 1948. Its always been a progressive position since Hertzel
That’s like saying science is anti-conservative
You’d expect them to be factually accurate though.
Updating the article to provide more correct information as soon as it’s uncovered is part of that
OK, that’s somewhat callous, but I think almost any nation’s soldiers would make that same joke.
Please fix the title.
Fucking Animals
Israeli soldiers blow up building in Gaza and laugh about ‘gender reveal’ ‘It’s a boy!’ Israeli soldiers have filmed themselves blowing up a building in Gaza while laughing that the blue smoke resembles a ‘gender reveal’.
The world isn’t real. This is simply too ridiculous to have happened. I have been in a coma for the last six years and this is all just a weird fantasy playing out in my mind.
Headline was inaccurate - they didn’t bomb a place for a gender reveal. Instead they bombed a place that produced blue smoke for some other reason and joked about how it resembling a gender reveal. That’s…not better but it’s an important distinction - one is blowing shit up to announce it’s a boy and the other is blowing shit up to blow shit up and then joking about the color of the smoke.
wait, but does that mean i’m in a coma, or im a figment of your imagination and im in your coma?
but i agree, it’s too absurdly horrible to be plausible
I think, therefore I am. You think, therefore you are.
well how do i know you think?
You don’t, and neither do I.
fuck
Hey now it’s not too bad, the sea pickles get by just fine while not thinking
well they’re just simulations too
I think I think, therefore I think I am.
You’re either in your coma or their coma, but either way, you’re in a coma!
it’s the only plausible explanation
I had a concussion in 2008 and I’m wondering if I didn’t wake up from it and any day now I’ll wake up in spring 2008.
shakes you vigorously
“Wake the fuck up and take us with you!”
“I’m tired of being a figment of this dickhead’s imagination!”
Fuck israël ans fuck IDF
You would need to be entirely devoid of any semblance of humanity to even conceive of this idea, right?
How do you want to celebrate the joy of a new child? Oh, I don’t know, how about we make a light of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Fucking ghouls
A lot of times soldiers when they come back from war have a lot of post-traumatic stress and they end up drinking a lot and they have a high suicide rate. So when the war ends it really doesn’t. They just bring it back home. And Israel is on the verge of a civil war. So all the mistakes of that society will come back and blow up in their face. We just have to be patient. I really question if the state of Israel is going to last. I mean, a lot of people in the United States despise Israel, and they will isolate themselves from the rest of the world and be notoriously known as terrible tourist. So they’ll be discriminated against and shunned. Justice will be served eventually. The United States really at the end of the day is just using them as a proxy. They think they’re controlling us, but we are using them to control our population for our imperialist endeavors. And just like Ukraine, we’ll throw them in the gutter, because these are all just dildos of empire. What you do overseas will come back to you and me. The imperialist boomerang effect. We just live in dystopic times and we just have to realize that the world we live in is not the same and so our likes and dislikes need to change. Our habits, our patterns, our hobbies. You name it. We’ve got to start thinking locally. Stop giving corporations money, get a hobby, be productive, stuff like that.
I mean all that PTSD is why America had the prohibition in the first place.
Wives were getting abused by their husbands back from the war and said they seemed on edge and worse than before… So, “it must be the booze and not shellshock cause they are tougher than that”.The world changes and reacts to its new conditions its just a shame people are morons and evil little shits 8 times out of 10.
“Won’t somebody think of the poor genocidal murderers!?”Edit: didn’t read it beyond the first few words and had a kneejerk reaction. My bad.
“I didn’t read it but I’m mad anyway!”
Yeah, you’re right,
I’m decently sure they don’t have the self awareness to even say that. The IDF just believes they’re the good guys
They are well aware they are doing evil, but they plan to stop at some point and just forget it ever happened. They will bury the history and whats left, they will each pretend they never personally supported. Did you see the new marvel movie? “We all did some bad things, those were some dark dark times, but whats important now is that we stand together and protect the people”
And while they were at it they turned captain america into a white guy again (and only ever mention previous cptn ameria being steve rogers), and the “new avengers” has 3 russian heros in it, each of which has no moral compass. Thats after they tried to title the last Avengers movie, “A new world order”, and spend 15 minutes of it on a backstory of “sadaf” and israeli superhero protecting the motherland from terrorists bent on destruction and killing of innocents.
I’m not kidding. They arent particularly subtle about any of it. They are practically announcing their propoganda and sales pitch on it now. And we’ll lick it right up too.
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I watched Full Metal Jacket today and I feel like it does an excellent job of explaining how and why people become psychos in war zones.
They are raised on racial supremacy and exceptionalism stories. They are the ultimate filthy racists. They are pretty open about ejecting every non-jewish person from Israel, and killing anyone who has anything they want. They’d happily launch nuclear weapons too, they couldnt care less if it harms lands and people outside Israel.
Group think and social pressures. It is remarkably easy for humans to find themselves behaving like those around them. The progression doesn’t even have to be fast. Imagine that when the israeli military fought wars in the mid 20th century, they started thinking of the enemy around them, and then imagine how long it has been since then with no corrective measures ever taken on those lines of thinking. NOW add in that israel has mandatory military service. The ones who choose to stay are going to be the ones that can agree and fit in with those now very evolved thoughts of hatred, and of course they will bring their own worse additions as they try to prove themselves to those the esteem, the already putrid military members ranked above them.
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Ordinary people do fucked up shit when fucked up shit becomes ordinary.
because they are used to have any and all actions justified by the world and any criticism flagged as “anti-semitism”
In short: cognitive dissonance-reducing beliefs.
Fuck Israel.
