It is a sign of desperation that Israel and its supporters go on making the outlandish claim that the IDF is a beacon of morality. This is an indication of how isolated from world opinion, particularly in the Global South, Zionism has become. That the project is that detached from reality is a sign of its vulnerability.

Perhaps the most astonishing response Israel has offered to South Africa’s genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is Benjamin Netanyahu’s claim that Israel has the “most moral army in the world” and that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) make every effort to avoid harming non-combatants. Two weeks before Netanyahu made this statement, the Switzerland-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported that Israel had killed 29,124 people in Gaza. Of these, 26,706, a shocking 92 percent, were civilians. This suggests that it is not just a matter of Israel failing to distinguish between combatants and non-combatants; it is that it increasingly appears as though Israel is deliberately trying to kill as many civilians as possible, with an added bonus if Hamas fighters are eliminated along the way. According to a US doctor in Gaza, Israeli snipers are routinely executing Palestinian children with single shots to their heads. Medical workers, patients, and displaced civilians have endured similar fates.

  • Drusas@kbin.social
    66·
    1 year ago

    Considering things going on in more than one country in Africa right now, I’m going to have to disagree.

      • Drusas@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s not my fault if you don’t follow war-torn parts of Africa and it’s not my responsibility to educate you on an entire continent.

  • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    1 year ago

    Considering that civilians are even involved in holding the hostages, where they “live” with families… what else should we expect? They are ideological brought up to think they are sub-human and that dieing makes them heros. The same way Nazis and Japanese were blinded by ideology, there was no way to stop their terror without civilian casualties.

    If you disagree, I would like to hear how else we can stop such cultures of hate from spreading terror.

    • dubyakayEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Do you think this started on October 7th?

    • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      If you disagree, I would like to hear how else we can stop such cultures of hate from spreading terror.

      Buckle up, because this will be a wild one. Don’t corral people into what’s effectively the world’s largest open air prison while supporting the creation of violent, reactionary factions within its populace.

      Oh wait, it’s really not so hard.

      • Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        So why were the borders closed? Were the Palestinians such good people and Israel, Jordan and Egypt just hate them for no reason?

        Oh wait, history goes back further than a few years.