An Israeli reserve soldier who took part in the genocide in Gaza committed suicide on Tuesday in his apartment in the central Israeli city of Rehovot, on the very day of his wedding, according to the Hebrew daily Maariv.
The paper reported that the 31-year-old soldier was scheduled to be married that evening but was found dead in his home after taking his own life. Ambulance crews arriving at the scene pronounced him dead, and police said circumstances remain under investigation.
The incident adds to what Israeli media have described as an alarming rise in suicides among army personnel, especially reservists, since October 2023, when Israel launched its genocidal war on Gaza.
“It’s hard to not be a genocidal colonizer if you grow up that way”.
No it isn’t. It’s just unlikely to actually happen at all because a genocidal colonizer society brings people up in that culture. It is not difficult, and is even a passive thing to do, to simply not support that effort. Even just refusing to join the IDF just nets you a few months in a cushy “prison” and slightly limits a professional networking opportunity (yes, they think that way). Compare that to the alternative, which is actively partaking in genocide colonialism.
Sympathize with the oppressed, not the oppressors.
Cool straw man you were building there.
It’s not at all a straw man. They literally said, in reference to settler colonialism and genocide, “Few people have the psychological strength to resist participating.”
Look fascist sympathy right in the eyes.