Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- A 24-year-old Israeli soldier living in occupied Safad, called Daniel Edri, set himself on fire yesterday. His burned body was found inside his car in a forest near Safad. Edri had served in both the Gaza Strip and Lebanon during his reserve duty.
The soldier’s mother said: “He told me he had seen horrors and said, ‘Mom, I constantly smell the burned bodies and see them everywhere.'”
Not really an option there unless you feel the country or subject yourself to arrest, everyone is a conscript there isn’t really a separation of civilian and military life
so there really are options, is what you’re saying
so just commiting genocide then? no other option.
So they need to laugh, while filming themselves killing children and other innocent people?
Obviously this guy would have been better off fleeing the country or going to jail, committing genocide has literally ruined his own life too.
You’re right, leaving the colonialist project or getting arrested and jailed for a couple months is so much worse than committing genocide then immolating yourself because your brain can’t comprehend the suffering you’ve caused. He really had no choice.
Not an excuse, doesn’t lessen their atrocities even slightly.
Get arrested then. It’s better than killing civilians. If you think not getting arrested is worth committing a literal genocide, you’re an objectively horrible person and are not worthy of the least bit of respect or sympathy. The laws written after WWII specifically rejects the notion that soldiers can absolve themselves of responsibility by following orders.