The indoctrination is so strong, not even those critical of the government can see beyond "Hamas will kill us all"
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/middleeast/israeli-soldiers-political-war/index.html
An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reservist, Atzmon, 26, was called up just hours after Hamas launched its brutal terror attack on Israel, murdering around 1,200 people and kidnapping 253 others.
Atzmon said he is the “left-wing guy” in his unit. Like tens of thousands of others, he had spent most of last spring and summer protesting against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his plans to overhaul Israel’s judiciary. Netanyahu’s government is the most right-wing in Israel’s history, rejecting the idea of a Palestinian state and supporting Jewish settlements inside the West Bank.
“I’m devastated about the death of people in Gaza, kids, the elderly. Just normal men (aged) 26, like me, we don’t want to die. But I have the right to defend myself and to defend my family, my friends, my loved ones,” he said, rejecting the notion that the Hamas terror attack was an act of “resistance” against the Israeli blockade. “I’m not saying this is not a complex situation. But I’m 100% sure that I’m on the right side of history, and that I’m trying to defend people.”
“What happened in the kibbutzim felt like the most inhuman thing I ever witnessed. So when I’m facing this kind of evil, I felt, and I still feel, that entering the war is the only way. Because these are not people I can speak with or comprehend,” he added.
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Mendel, by far the youngest of the trio, said he feels strongly about the “horrible” injustice of innocent people dying.
“Wars shouldn’t happen, (Hamas) should not have started this and none of this would have happened,” he said. “And I don’t think that starting it justifies any civilians dying, but it’s a war and war is a horrible, brutal thing, but it’s either that or they would have massacred the rest of us with smiles on their faces.”
Emmanuel said he too sympathizes with innocent civilians. But he said he believes fighting the war the way it is currently conducted is the only option.
“I don’t believe that Churchill or Roosevelt thought they can manage Hitler. There’s no managing your enemies. Either we let them wipe out our country or we defeat them,”
The indoctrination is strong. Israel really has not moved past October 7th, it's like groundhog day, history forgotten. They truly think they're in an existential war against Hamas. A perpetual war as now UNWRA is Hamas, next the PA is Hamas, and Hamas has presence in Egypt, Lebanon, Qatar as well.
Maybe if the international community had not remained silent it would not have come this far. Just as recent as a few months before the current war Gaza was bombed. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/06/israel-opt-civilian-deaths-and-extensive-destruction-in-latest-gaza-offensive-highlight-human-toll-of-apartheid/
The only way to stop this is to give Israel a wake-up call by sanctions on military aid in the very least.
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