For Israeli military paramedic Yuval Green, it was the command to burn down a house that made him decide to end his reserve duty.
Green had spent 50 days in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis earlier this year with his paratrooper unit, sleeping in a home lit only by battery-powered fairy lights among the rubble and devastation.
He had begun to have doubts about the unit’s purpose there months earlier when he heard about Israel’s refusal to agree to Hamas’s demands to end the war, along with freeing hostages.
Green is one of three Israeli reservists who told the Observer they will not return if called for military service in Gaza. All three previously undertook compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which forms the backbone of society.
would be cool if this dissent grows through the ranks so that Benni can’t continue this travesty.
The insidious thing is that refusing to serve does not grow dissent within the ranks. It takes those who are dissenting out of the ranks, which causes the army as a whole to be more extreme. And, given long standing compulsory service laws, such dissenters can be jailed, allowing the government to disrupt any potential domestic anti war movement.
“After tens of thousands of murders, many of which were women, elder and children, I realized that maybe we weren’t in Gaza to defend ourselves”
No, fuck you.
FUCK
YOU
You fucking deserve all the nightmares and all the PTSD you’ll get from this. 1 day there should have been enough to realize you were being part of an ethnic cleanse. In fact, you should have ended your reserve duty before going there.
You don’t deserve my pity or my understanding, you deserve to live with your burden for being a fucking genocide helper.
Just for a little perspective: people with your exact mindset exist in Israeli leadership who are responsible for Haniyeh getting murdered instead of continuing negotiations. Never forgive, never forget, an eye for an eye until everyone is blind.
A door for redemption should always remain opened… at least this is how we used to do things in the west.
Coming to a right conclussion should be praised, even with this context.
