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IDF struggles to throttle endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media
(www.timesofisrael.com)
War crimes. The IDf are committing war crimes.
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lol, right..."misdeeds"
Lil' whoopsie-daisies
INSANE word choice, like ok maybe you don't wanna write war crime, though I don't know why when it's just a fact, but MISDEEDS? wanton murder, collective punishment, torture, genocide. Are these the misdeeds they mean?
Who is Miss Deeds?
Imagine if the IDF soldiers just stopped committing war crimes. Imagine if legacy media companies didn’t tie themselves in knots trying to protect and defend Israeli war criminals. This timeline needs more vigilantes since the corrupt systems only work to protect the ruling class, despite their crimes.
That’s pretty hard to imagine
This timeline needs more vigilantes since the corrupt systems only work to protect the ruling class, despite their crimes.
If you're not going to do it, don't expect anyone else to. Go be a hero or stop praying for miracles.
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Imagine if the US said no thanks Israel, stopped selling it arms, giving it hardworking american peoples taxes and put a stop to AIPACs political corruption
After you then mate.
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Oh look, when you brainwash an entire generation into thinking a rival group are subhuman and not worthy of life, they'll think nothing of posting their war crimes online because they don't see themselves as doing anything wrong.
And it's a flex for them.
That's what happens when they glorify that behavior.
None of them are going to stop doing it.
Genocide must be so normalized in Israel that they don’t think there’s anything wrong with it, to the point where it’s acceptable to post on social media.
It must be hard for the IDF to explain to its own soldiers why they shouldn’t post it when the entire population is brainwashed.
Who woulda thought that the lesson they'd take away from the Holocaust would be to Pay It Forward?
"Israel is a nation of child killers, a nation of homicidal maniacs, of delusional liars. Its a nation that revels in death"
- Norman Finkelstein
Need to use quotes from Jewish else ... Antisemitic
If you live outside the US, being "anti" some group is incredibly common. Its strange that "antisemitism" is such a big deal here-- to the point that people would rather shut up about genocide to avoid the risk of being called antisemitic.
One way to do that would be to stop the endless misdeeds.
I struggle to remember a time when they were not committing war crimes
Maybe there wasn't one.
Hey, Israel!
How about you treat the cause instead of the symptom?
That would require admitting wrongdoing.
There's only one cure when the cancer is rampant.
Euthanasia.
Nazis worried that other Nazis posting Nazi shit online might sour their Western revenue.
might sour their Western revenue.
The Western revenue approves of the Nazi shit.
“What we’ve seen in the current conflict is it’s not just the volume [of the posts], but it’s also the fact that soldiers don’t shy away from uploading videos, sometimes with their face,” or other identifying features, said Eran Shamir-Borer, director of the Center for Security and Democracy at the Israel Democracy Institute. “They’re not even ashamed of what they’re doing.”
https://english.palinfo.com/video_articles/How-Israel-teaches-its-children-to-hate/
That behavior is ingrained from childhood.
They would need to have a cultural shift to stop soldiers from pridefully sharing their war crimes. In their twisted minds they think what they are doing is awesome.
Exactly. Why are these young people doing it? Because they’re showing off to their friends. Look at these Arabs I roughed up!”
Israeli social media today is what social media in the 1930s would look under Jim Crow, complete with lynching videos being posted. The settlers are gleefully posting videos of themselves bullying Palestinians out of their homes.
What do you expect when the entire nation is a fucking corrupt institution, rotten at it's very core. It's being run by a man wanted by the ICC for war crimes. Fuck Israel and anyone who supports them. Also, fuck your religion, whatever it is. Religion breeds hate and is the cause of most of the world's problems.
What if my religion is taking copious amounts of psychedelics and thinking about the law of conservation of mass?
That sounds less like you telling other people how to live based on arbitrary premises that you have chosen to declare as fundamental axioms, and more like a damn good time.
It's almost like they condone the misdeeds but don't want to admit it. Oh wait no it's not almost anything, it's exactly like that. It's exactly that.
"Now what you are doing is perfectly good and justified, but you can't post about it for... reasons."
"Look, just because we're the actual bad guys, doesn't mean we have to show off how bad we are to the rest of the world!" - That defense minister who was giggling while humiliating the flotilla members
Any current or former members of the IDF should be immediately arrested for war crimes as soon as they set foot in a civilized country.
You mean Israel, a nation where 80+ percent of its population supports the Palestinian Trail of Tears, would struggle to control the output of snuff films?
Well I'll be dammed. What a conundrum. Truly is a quagmire
You can still do the "misdeeds", just stop posting them.
... a concerning uptick in recent years of respondents who believe that the IDF is held back from fulfilling its mission by upholding the principle of avoiding unnecessary killing and minimizing harm to innocent people. In October 2025, 65 percent of Jewish Israelis polled held that notion, up five percentage points from the year prior.
What the hell? Israelis want them to be more aggressive?
Yes. According to wikipedia Israel is more of a democracy than the United States. Israelis are getting exactly what they want from Bibi
It tells a lot about the deep-rooted culture over there.
Just endless misdeeds. Some oopsies. Just a goof. A bit of a yikes.
IDF struggles to throttle endless feed of soldiers posting who and what they are on social media
What of the officers in their military just held the soliders accountable for their "misdeeds" that would be a straight forward way to reduce the number of "misdeeds".
These Soldiers are TERRIBLE people! DisGUSTING! Wait these are ISRAELI Soldiers doing this? THIS ARTICLE IS ANTI SEMETIC!
-The BBC!
Not surprised, not one bit.
It would be interesting to see if a mutiny erupts within the IDF.
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