Israeli soldiers blow up building in Gaza and laugh about ‘gender reveal’
www.aljazeera.com
‘It’s a boy!’ Israeli soldiers have filmed themselves blowing up a building in Gaza while laughing that the blue smoke.

I genuinely thought this was hyperbolic satire.

EDIT: Outlet has edited headline since time of posting.

  • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Ok, so that was horrifying that they treated it so lightly, but this headline seems slightly inaccurate.

    It seems they were not blowing it up for a ‘gender reveal’, but instead were blowing it up otherwise and something in the building produced blue smoke, and they found the resemblence hilarious.

    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      OK, that’s somewhat callous, but I think almost any nation’s soldiers would make that same joke.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Al Jazeera must have updated/corrected it. The title of the post was the original headline.

            • Samskara@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Well, you can check it yourself. Go to Arabic Al Jazeera and use machine translation and compare it to the English version. Then compare the article to the same topic on the BBC and Times of Israel. Compare and contrast.

              Al Jazeera is Qatari state media. There’s no press freedom in that authoritarian kingdom.

          • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
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            2 months ago

            You’d have to be an asshole not oppose country based on settler-colonialism and ethnic cleansing

            • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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              2 months ago

              You’d have to be an asshole not oppose country based on settler-colonialism and ethnic cleansing

              …and yet, being anti-Israel was considered a far-right neo-Nazi position not that long ago. It became acceptable again from the start of the current flare up (the current fighting isn’t something new, it’s been going on and off for decades). Before that, anti-Israel meant anti-Jew meant obviously Nazi. It’s wild how when things change so many people will just quietly drop the old narrative and pretend it never existed. We’ve always been at war with Eurasia and all that.

              The reality is that the US supports Israel, has for a long time and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. It’s not because of being pro-Jew or wanting to ethnically cleanse Arabs, it’s because they’re our only real ally in the Middle East and thus we’ll remain safely on their good side unless and until we get a strategically more useful ally in the Middle East. Then keeping them happy becomes less important.

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Remember to keep sending them your tax money. They’re fighting terrorists. Totally…

  • Hellfire103@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The world isn’t real. This is simply too ridiculous to have happened. I have been in a coma for the last six years and this is all just a weird fantasy playing out in my mind.

  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I don’t understand how someone becomes such a shit human capable of doing something like this.

    • GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Group think and social pressures. It is remarkably easy for humans to find themselves behaving like those around them. The progression doesn’t even have to be fast. Imagine that when the israeli military fought wars in the mid 20th century, they started thinking of the enemy around them, and then imagine how long it has been since then with no corrective measures ever taken on those lines of thinking. NOW add in that israel has mandatory military service. The ones who choose to stay are going to be the ones that can agree and fit in with those now very evolved thoughts of hatred, and of course they will bring their own worse additions as they try to prove themselves to those the esteem, the already putrid military members ranked above them.

    • MissJinx@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      because they are used to have any and all actions justified by the world and any criticism flagged as “anti-semitism”

    • kreskin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      They are raised on racial supremacy and exceptionalism stories. They are the ultimate filthy racists. They are pretty open about ejecting every non-jewish person from Israel, and killing anyone who has anything they want. They’d happily launch nuclear weapons too, they couldnt care less if it harms lands and people outside Israel.

    • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I watched Full Metal Jacket today and I feel like it does an excellent job of explaining how and why people become psychos in war zones.

  • Fingolfinz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    And people wonder why I’m such a cynical, miserable fucking Eeyore all the time. Fuck humans so fucking much. Wretched creatures we are.

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    You would need to be entirely devoid of any semblance of humanity to even conceive of this idea, right?

    How do you want to celebrate the joy of a new child? Oh, I don’t know, how about we make a light of ethnic cleansing and genocide.

    Fucking ghouls

    • andybytes@programming.devEnglish
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      2 months ago

      A lot of times soldiers when they come back from war have a lot of post-traumatic stress and they end up drinking a lot and they have a high suicide rate. So when the war ends it really doesn’t. They just bring it back home. And Israel is on the verge of a civil war. So all the mistakes of that society will come back and blow up in their face. We just have to be patient. I really question if the state of Israel is going to last. I mean, a lot of people in the United States despise Israel, and they will isolate themselves from the rest of the world and be notoriously known as terrible tourist. So they’ll be discriminated against and shunned. Justice will be served eventually. The United States really at the end of the day is just using them as a proxy. They think they’re controlling us, but we are using them to control our population for our imperialist endeavors. And just like Ukraine, we’ll throw them in the gutter, because these are all just dildos of empire. What you do overseas will come back to you and me. The imperialist boomerang effect. We just live in dystopic times and we just have to realize that the world we live in is not the same and so our likes and dislikes need to change. Our habits, our patterns, our hobbies. You name it. We’ve got to start thinking locally. Stop giving corporations money, get a hobby, be productive, stuff like that.

    • Baguette@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I’m decently sure they don’t have the self awareness to even say that. The IDF just believes they’re the good guys

      • kreskin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        They are well aware they are doing evil, but they plan to stop at some point and just forget it ever happened. They will bury the history and whats left, they will each pretend they never personally supported. Did you see the new marvel movie? “We all did some bad things, those were some dark dark times, but whats important now is that we stand together and protect the people”

        And while they were at it they turned captain america into a white guy again (and only ever mention previous cptn ameria being steve rogers), and the “new avengers” has 3 russian heros in it, each of which has no moral compass. Thats after they tried to title the last Avengers movie, “A new world order”, and spend 15 minutes of it on a backstory of “sadaf” and israeli superhero protecting the motherland from terrorists bent on destruction and killing of innocents.

        I’m not kidding. They arent particularly subtle about any of it. They are practically announcing their propoganda and sales pitch on it now. And we’ll lick it right up too.