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[–] fort_burp@feddit.nl 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Men need to serve at least 3 years compulsory military service, women 2 years.

Are you saying there are no innocents in Israel?

[–] wpb@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

There's children, there's folks who refuse service. So I would venture to say that there are some people in Israel who are innocent. Of course, anyone who served in the military is not on that list.

Conscientious objectors are a thing. There are consequences to objecting, of course. Maybe it makes you a pariah in the settler colonial apartheid ethnostate of Israel, but just fucking move, you're not supposed to be there anyway. Maybe you cannot move out of Israel, and you'll be flipping burgers for the rest of your life or whatever. But you know what? Murdering a child to save your own career still makes you the bad guy. Helping others murder children to save your own career still makes you the bad guy.

But even beyond that, it's not like these folks are going to gaza with a gun pointed to their head. Most of the population supports the government's genocide of Palestinians, as polls show. There are very few innocents in Israel.