IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at Aid Site

Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ... by throwaway3060 on Saturday June 28, 2025 @08:24PM (#44409309)

This scenario already played out before in history; some people may believe those groups to have been heroes, but most can recognize that fighting in the name of independence did not make those groups any less guilty of committing atrocities against civilians. At the same time, that doesn't take away today from the people fighting for freedom legitimately. If anything, those groups hurt their cause in the long-run, as they gave Russia ammunition for propaganda for the next 80+ years.

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Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ... by the_g0d_f4ther on Saturday June 28, 2025 @11:29PM (#44410140)

Would you say the same about fighting nazi occupation ? Whatever the cost and the consequences (targeting civilians, infrastructure, etc)

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Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ... by throwaway3060 on Sunday June 29, 2025 @12:48AM (#44410434)

I'm not aware of any "resistance groups" fighting the Nazis that created horrors of this kind - though the Soviet army itself probably did. In my opinion, what distinguishes these kinds of massacres is their utter meaninglessness; they serve no military purpose, they are usually even detrimental to military goals. Going door to door killing does nothing to advance a cause - it is purely an expression of hate.

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Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ... by Voultapher on Sunday June 29, 2025 @03:24AM (#44410967)

Just curious what does fighting for freedom legitimately look like in this context for you?

> For Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth, the colonizer's presence in Algeria is based on sheer military strength. Any resistance to this strength must also be of a violent nature because it is the only "language" the colonizer speaks. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frantz_Fanon

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Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ... by throwaway3060 on Sunday June 29, 2025 @10:06AM (#44413279)

Continuing the WWII example, I think of partisans running sabotage operations while hiding out in the forests.

In contrast, if the actions look closer to those of literal Nazi collaborators, then there is only depravity in that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khatyn_massacre

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Re:IDF Soldiers Confess: Ordered to Shoot Unarmed Gazans at ... by int_19h on Sunday June 29, 2025 @07:00PM (#44417399)

Partisans were kinda notorious for their actions against civilians - sometimes to punish collaborators (although in practice it would often be the entire village deemed collectively responsible if e.g. some partisans were betrayed there, and burned down), but often just targeting the infrastructure to deny it to the Germans even if that meant that civilians would starve to death etc. Here's one famous partisan hero-martyr: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoya_Kosmodemyanskaya

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