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ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire

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surume ◴[26 Jan 24 20:23 UTC] No.39147721[source]▶
Hi All, I am a combat soldier and commander in the IDF currently fighting in Gaza.

We are not committing any genocide. The give away for Genocide is that there are mass graves, which in Gaza there are not.

Yes there is collateral damage because Hamas uses civilians as human shields, so we have no choice but to kill them too, but we do not specifically target them.

We risk ourselves and our soldiers to ensure that the fewest number of non-combatants get killed. We have lost many of our own soldiers because of this. It would be much easier for us to just bomb everything from the air but we dont, because it's less precise than going in on foot.

Personally, as a commander, I would like to say that I have no ill feelings towards the Palestinian people, but we need to get as many of the hostages back as possible, and we cannot allow Hamas to continue ruling Gaza and attacking our civilians as they did on October 7th.

We will continue the fight with them until our military objectives are met, and we will also engage Hizbollah on the northern border for exactly the same reasons (Hamas actually stole their plan and used it on October 7th - Hezbollah had planned to do it in the north but much worse).

Israel is the canary in the coal mine. What happens to us today will happen to you tomorrow, so before you give your full throated support to Hamas, let me ask you, would you want October 7th to happen to your family and friends? If Hamas aren't stopped, that same attack will happen around the world.

Please support us and help rid the world of violent terrorism, and maybe one day, we can all live in peace.

Shabbat Shalom!

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1. throw__away7391 ◴[26 Jan 24 20:32 UTC] No.39147872[source]▶
In general when there is an accusation of genocide, is a statement of denial from a soldier of the accused side considered good evidence?
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2. SomeoneFromCA ◴[26 Jan 24 21:46 UTC] No.39148962[source]▶
The whole his post feel so righteous and cliche prpaganda, I am almost feeling bad for him.
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3. ◴[27 Jan 24 01:18 UTC] No.39151315[source]▶
4. rsoto2 ◴[27 Jan 24 18:22 UTC] No.39158243[source]▶
You should feel bad for people whose humanity was stolen from them.

"A Journalist asked him" "how many children, how many people could be killed, to justify this operation? Is there an upper limit, where you think this is just to much this does not compute this does not add up?

"That congressman, couldn't give a number. And I thought to myself, -that man has been corrupted. That man has lost himself. He's lost himself in humiliation. He's lost himself in vengeance. He has lost himself in violence.

I keep hearing this term repeated over and over again "the right to self defense"

What about the right to dignity? What about the right to morality? What about the right to be able to sleep at night?

Because I know that If I was complicit, and I am complicit, in dropping bombs on children. In dropping bombs on refugee camps. No matter who is there. It would give me trouble sleeping at night, and I worry for the souls of people who can do this, and can sleep at night." -Ta-Nehisi Coates

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_df_u7yJj3k