Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ...
by glandium on Saturday June 28, 2025 @07:59PM
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> Nobody blames the resistance during the Nazi occupation for what they did.
Are you really sure about that? Maybe now, but while it was happening, I'm not so sure everyone was on board. Quite the opposite.
Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ...
by Aeolun on Monday June 30, 2025 @07:13PM
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Fair point. Collective punishment has a way of making people feel like that, which is of course entirely the point. Of course, collective punishment isn’t any less of a crime.
Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ...
by throwaway3060 on Saturday June 28, 2025 @09:02PM
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This is probably what anti-Soviet groups in WWII thought when they allied with the Nazis and committed atrocities. Most people today don't seem to think they were justified in doing that.
Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ...
by luckylion on Sunday June 29, 2025 @04:00AM
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> Nobody blames the resistance during the Nazi occupation for what they did.
Because the Nazis lost. Had the Nazis won, alternative history and all that, the argument would probably be the other way around, how, faced with overwhelmingly strong enemies, they "had to" create death camps to "get back" at their aggressors.
Not a great argument, I think.
I think war crimes are a lot more acceptable/understandable if they’re the only way you even potentially have a chance to get back at your agressors. Nobody blames the resistance during the Nazi occupation for what they did.
Israel is very much not in a position they need to perpetrate war crimes to win the war. They have already won. It’s like a cat playing with the mouse it killed.