Just to be clear, this was an elderly Palestinian man cowering under a bed who came out with his hands up and was murdered by an Israeli soldier who brags about it after.

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https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/104771/National/dehumanisation-how-tutsis-were-reduced-to-cockroaches-snakes-to-be-killed

We’ve seen this before. Dehumanize a people to the point where everyone is considered scum and this is what happens.

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This is literally one of the steps to building a fascist state. Israel is speed running to a fascist theocracy.

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they already are. it’s time for regime change

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Every time they start talking about it something like this happens and everyone there “rallys around the flag”

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Israel has never not been a fascist state. Religion is humanity’s oldest lash. Each of the abrahamic religions after Judaism is a heretical revolutionary cult against the political structures that each prior religion corrupted itself into.

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A NYT letter to the editor signed by many prominent Jews, including Einstein, more or less blatantly called Tnaut Haherut Nazis.

Haherut is now Likud, and that letter was written in 1948.

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Each of the abrahamic religions after Judaism

I’m no scholar, but aren’t there only two and their various sects? Would have been shorter to just name them, unless it was to tie them to their Abrahamic roots and then I’m curious why you don’t include Judaism.

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I think the actual lash might precede it, but how can we really know?

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Just what Trump and the GOP is doing with immigrants in America.

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I remember around 10 years ago, there were some videos of what the youth were taught in school, and interviews with young adults about their opinion of Palestinians.

To sum it up, they were taught they were filth, sub human, in ~grade school ages. Young adults “sympathized” that they had tough lives, but they should go elsewhere, anywhere else, and that if they didn’t, they should die.

It was in the context of that anti missile defense, and living in Isreal with frequent missile/terror attacks, and how Palestinians were segregated, had long lines to enter the city, couldn’t use the same roads, kids throwing rocks at cars, etc.

So yeah, this genocide is hardly surprising. They’ve been dehumanizing the Palestinians for generations, straight up indoctrinating their children. So the IDF murdering them like some rabid dogs was exactly the goal.

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Holy moly, this sounds hauntingly familiar.

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And that is all really ridiculous brainwashing, considering that all those people look very similar. You could take random Israelis and Palestinians and dress them up all in the same clothes, and then ask people which person was which ethnic group and they might not be able to tell them apart.

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Same thing with the Hutus and the Tutsis during the Rwandan Genocide, or Turkish and Armenian people, except even closer than that probably. It’s ridiculous.

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JR, an artist that plastered large portraits of Palestinian and Isrealis in both cities. Groups tried to tear down portraits of the opposing group. They had to stop because they realized they really couldn’t tell who was Isreali or Palestinian by their faces alone. This was in 2007.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JR_(artist)

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There was a paper that attempted to provide some genetic evidence for this, but it, and the author, were attacked, the paper unprecedentedly deleted, and the author shortly thereafter apparently smeared with false embezzlement charges. Make of that what you will.

He is a bit of a nut job when it comes to the Basque language, though, hilariously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Arnaiz-Villena https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/nov/25/medicalscience.genetics https://www.bmj.com/content/324/7339/695.1

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This is my favorite Black Mirror episode because, unlike most of the episodes, it has literally been done before except we don’t need the technology they used. People are cruel and stupid enough to just listen when you say other people are monsters without requiring much else.

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it actually requires years of extremism within a government for people to support things like this.

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Yeah this sort of radicalization takes decades of hatred for the “other”. I’m talking about Israel, to be clear.

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I really don’t think it does, check out the Robbers Cave experiment. Group dynamics is fascinating.

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Maybe? But even if that’s true, so what? What’s your point?

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The UN has also compared the rate of killing to Rwanda. Specifically worse than in any conflict since Rwanda.

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Bibi: We have to pump those numbers up if we ever want to beat Rwanda

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there is no amount of Palestinian death that will ever slake the bloodthirst of the I"D"F and the genocidal state they murder for.

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TIL the word slake, thanks!

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Zionists are Nazis.

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YouTube link to video (non graphic)

These IDF soldiers truly can’t help themselves from posting their war crimes on TikTok.

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Holy fucking shit that is despicable.

They brag about killing an unarmed man cowering under a bed.

Then they congratulate the killer.

Then they go back to shoot at the corpse.

What. The. Fucking. Hell.

And I can’t do anything about it except keep up some degree of internet activism, but that doesn’t really alleviate that feeling of needing to do something.

I hope that video gets around and ruins the life of this Lior named person who did the killing. As in I hope he faces some motherfucking consequences for this horrible stuff.

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Now you’re Internet famous. See you in the Hague!

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Woah, interdimensional communication! I just want to say you’re lucky you get to live in the universe where justice is actually served to those that deserve it!

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