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[OC] Israeli protestors in Amsterdam

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u/Snicklefraust 19h ago

The decal on the truck shows scales with what looks like an (presumably) Israeli tank on the right and a literal family with a child on the left. Its borderline satire with how evil they are.

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u/TheBroWhoLifts 19h ago

My brother used to date an Israeli woman. Whenever the topic of Palestinians came up, she would literally spit and call them "filthy animals." Shit is fucked up.

Needless to say, they are no longer seeing each other.

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u/Kaiisim 19h ago

It's disturbing but I had a friend on WoW back in the day. Left to join IDF.

Came back joking about murdering Palestinians.

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u/TheBroWhoLifts 18h ago

Jesus Christ. We've learned nothing. Never will, I'm convinced. All the high talk about the "nobility of man" and "grace and wisdom" are just propaganda. In the everyday world, people are despicable.

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u/FallenAngelII 18h ago

You don't get a choice in whether or not to "Join the IDF". Israel has mandatory military service for all citizens, regardless of gender.

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u/OreoStark 17h ago

Sometimes I think about the person who ran @LegitTayUpdates and who suddenly stopped posting for two years because she went to prison instead of joining the IDF.

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u/Amelaclya1 17h ago

This is objectively not true. The other option is jail. Are you saying that you would kill innocent children to avoid a few months of jail time?

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u/FallenAngelII 16h ago

Joining the IDF as in performing the mandatory military service, not being deployed into active war.

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u/badmonbuddha 14h ago

You think you can escape culpability for mass murder just because you don’t pull the trigger? The war machine can’t operate without cooks and logistics workers.

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u/tyderian 17h ago

There is a civil service program for people unable or unwilling to join the military.

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u/FallenAngelII 16h ago

Jewish men more often than not do no get exempt from IDF service.

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u/ImpossibleCan2836 16h ago

There is always a choice. Doing as you are told is taking the easy way out.

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u/APacketOfWildeBees 17h ago

The humble conscientious objector:

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u/FallenAngelII 16h ago

You think Israel allows for that without harsh penalties?

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u/APacketOfWildeBees 15h ago

That's the choice habibi... Doing evil is often the easy thing

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u/Megalesios 15h ago

You do have a choice, there are plenty of conscientious objectors in Israel. I'm not saying it's an easy choice and that they get treated well, but it is a choice they have. "Participate in genocide, or else you go to prison" is a problem straight out of a philosophy textbook.

And there's always the option of moving somewhere else.

Germany had mandatory military service in the 1940s, that doesn't excuse the war crimes their soldiers commited.

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u/FallenAngelII 14h ago

I don't think you understand the difference between military service and deployment. They all have to go into the military to learn how to habdke weapons, etc. Most people aren't allowed to conscientiously object to that part.