Israel bombs the Gaza Strip on Oct. 9, 2025, not long after the announcement that it had agreed to a ceasefire deal. Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images
source: https://zeteo.com/p/gaza-ceasefire-hold-israel-accountable-genocide
Israel bombs the Gaza Strip on Oct. 9, 2025, not long after the announcement that it had agreed to a ceasefire deal. Photo by Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images
source: https://zeteo.com/p/gaza-ceasefire-hold-israel-accountable-genocide
Apart from the current genocide, seems to be a normal thing in war. I’ll never find it again, but read an essay on the end of WWII in the Pacific. A guy found his dad’s writings and wrote about it.
Everyone knew it was all over but the shouting, yet both sides continued to murder the fuck out of one another. The violence and cruelty actually ramped up! God I wish I could find it, but I think the idea was that combatants were taking out their rage in the final moments of the war.
Another reason to fight till the last moment is to hurt your enemy as badly as possible before they come to the negotiation table.
Because it’s lemmy, and I have to say it out fucking loud, I’m not excusing Israel’s actions. Hell, not even explaining them, unless the later statement applies.
This is what I was thinking about. Big wars might wind down like that but there’s almost overwhelming pressure to stand down. Israel isn’t about to collapse, they were never in a position where they were close to defeat, they’ve more or less been shaping negotiations from week 1, and this is a wound they’ve been picking at for decades.
You’re dangerously close to a lemmy thought police violation here ;-)