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"I Smell and See Burned Bodies All the Time": Israeli Soldier Commits Suicide After Taking Part in Gaza Genocide and Lebanon War (qudsnen.co)

submitted 4 weeks ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/palestine@lemmy.ml

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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.'”

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[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 46 points 4 weeks ago

It should have done the only moral thing left and take out his superior officer with him

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 weeks ago

Fragging- whoops wrong link, Fragging is an established tradition among invading forces, and one the IDF soldiers would be smart to learn if they want to avoid this suicidal PTSD from perpetrating crimes against humanity on innocent citizens.

[-] Quadhammer@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Two if possible 2:1 kd

[-] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 34 points 4 weeks ago

Still no sympathy for him

[-] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 31 points 4 weeks ago

I'm so excited to hear about the IDF mental health crisis from all the wonderful journalists

[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah. It's not like you "suddenly" realize you're a Nazi and decide to kill yourself. His brain broke after being a fucking Nazi for so long. Rest in piss.

[-] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 28 points 4 weeks ago

how horrendous is the IDF, that even those commiting it end up dead from the trauma of just witnessing it.

did the Auschwitz guards had this problem?

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 weeks ago

did the Auschwitz guards had this problem?

I hope so

[-] DropBear@theblower.au 11 points 4 weeks ago

@IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds @geneva_convenience
@palestine
Most Israelis seem to revel in the bloodshed. Most Israelis probably belong in prison.
#CrimesAgainstHumanity
#WarCrimes
#genocide
#Israel

[-] CritFail@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

I seem to remember accounts of Himmler doing CC inspections and being told that the tasks being asked of the guards were having severe impacts on them.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 weeks ago

Not really, the SS was selected for cruelty and indoctrination, the IDF is a conscripted army. They didn't put conscripts inside Auschwitz exactly because of this.

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Doesn't matter what they were selected for, traumatic experiences can get to anyone. I know we have this shared history that SS guards were the worst of humanity and boy howdy I'm sure they were awful, but at the end of the day they were still young men. eg Even the most garbage humans in the US military can get PTSD.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 26 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

There’d be fewer dead people if you’d done this sooner.

[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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[-] loonsun@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago

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

[-] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 weeks ago

So they need to laugh, while filming themselves killing children and other innocent people?

[-] burgerchurgarr@lemmus.org 10 points 4 weeks ago

Obviously this guy would have been better off fleeing the country or going to jail, committing genocide has literally ruined his own life too.

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 weeks ago

so there really are options, is what you're saying

[-] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

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.

[-] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 weeks ago

Terrible in one sense - but also, a lot more of the criminal Israel soldiers needs to mirror his behavior. Sorry to say, they are choosing to commit horrible acts of violence and murder. Since no one else is stopping them, they should stop themselves, and face the punishment.

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago

or maybe he was planning to be a whistle blower and they found out.

[-] HK65@sopuli.xyz 19 points 4 weeks ago

I wonder what whistle you can blow when they are all doing it in the open and broadcasting it, daring the world to say anything

[-] wheezy@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah I was gonna say the whistle blowing is searching for videos of the IDF online. They literally make tiktoks of their war crimes set to some awful music track.

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 4 weeks ago

Sadly most of his "brothers in arms" feel nothing but joy when they "wipe out the vermin".

[-] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 weeks ago

Burn in hell haha

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Thoughts and prayers.

Thoughts: Fuck that guy

Prayers: Hey God, remember to warm up the brimstone for this one!

[-] hologram@cyberplace.social 3 points 4 weeks ago

@geneva_convenience
I would not be able to live if I were him either. I feel sad for him, but he did the only thing possible for himself.

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 16 points 4 weeks ago

He finally killed a bad person.

[-] hologram@cyberplace.social 1 points 4 weeks ago

@geneva_convenience
btw
who is Jeff Goldberg?

https://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/about-us/jeffrey-goldberg

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 weeks ago

American who went to colonize Palestine and became an IDF prison guard. Not sure how it's relevant to this article though.

[-] hologram@cyberplace.social 3 points 3 weeks ago

@geneva_convenience he's at least as bad as the rest, but look how he's respectable because someone in the family bought him a printing press.
He's smart enough to play the game so he doesn't scare people off, and that, IMO, makes him worse than the clueless killers.

[-] hologram@cyberplace.social 1 points 4 weeks ago

@geneva_convenience

There is some missing from the resume they provide.

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