The article <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/some-days-theres-just-too-much-israeli" author="Caitlin Johnstone" source="Substack">Some Days There's Just Too Much Israeli Psychopathy To Write About</a> writes, <bq><b>If I had murdered people for trying to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones who I had also murdered, I’d definitely be asking myself a lot of questions</b>, but “what was so important about that corpse?” would definitely not be among them. <b>Gaza has become a hunting ground which is visited by psychopathic individuals who want to experience what it’s like to kill human beings</b>, and it’s always open season. Those <b>bloodthirsty monsters then re-enter our communities and walk among us without consequences.</b> They get to go commit atrocities and then come back and resume their lives as though nothing happened, like going off to <b>some kind of genocide summer camp. It’s about the most horrific thing you can imagine.</b> Israel poisons the entire world.</bq> While I agree that the hagiography around Daniel Raab, an American from Chicago who joined the IDF to murder Palestinians---that's pretty much a direct quote from him---is nauseating, it's not just Israel that does this. It's empire. It's colonialism. It's racism. It's indoctrination. It's a mindset engendered by all of these things. <img attachment="torture_is_so_booooring.webp" align="right" caption="Torture is so booooring">This is what U.S. soldiers do all the time. Of course, many of them are absolutely psychically destroyed afterwards. It eats them up. It will eat up the Israeli soldiers too. You can indoctrinate them all you want but their humanity eventually seeks them out where they live---in their dreams, in their haunted thoughts. Many take it out on themselves. Many take it out on others, self-destructing in a cataclysm that sacrifices even more innocents. This is not to make you feel sorry for people who murdered innocents when they could, but to say that war destroys everything. Many former soldiers are far more apologetic about what they've done than Daniel Raab. Raab was born into just the right cauldron for sniping innocents in Palestine, though: the good old U.S. of A, where you learn early that life is cheap, especially when that life is poor or colored or both. It was a smooth transition from the racism of the U.S. to that of Israel. People like Raab reenter U.S. society and no-one is the wiser because no-one is taught to care or ask what "joined the IDF" even means. If they have any idea what it means, they associate it vaguely with something good. It's kind of wild, isn't it? There are U.S. citizens who join a foreign army and no-one bats an eye. There's even a Congressperson who's worn his IDF uniform in Congress. He has a giant Israeli flag outside of his office. We are taught to be unfazed, and we are simultaneously taught to go <i>f@&king bananas</i> if that army belongs to pretty much any other country. In Europe, people who return to Lebanon or Syria to help protect their families from invading Israelis are roundly chastised as Islamist terrorists---fighting for the caliphate!---while people who join the IDF are just treated as normal. You would expect the opposite in world with a moral compass. Lucky for us, we ain't got one. From a comment by Stephen Walker: <bq>They’ve attacked two new countries in two days: Tunisia and Qatar. They’ve carried out dozens of assassinations in the following countries in just 18 months: Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, Syria and Qatar. <b>Total number of countries attacked in less than two years: 9 (Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Malta, Tunisia, Qatar). Total impunity. The entire world’s inaction is sickening.</b></bq> It's not that the world doesn't act; the world approves. It welcomes the state of things. The U.S. can also attack whichever countries it wants and no-one even remembers these things as invasions of attacks. People will chirp at you that Russia has to be punished because it invaded Ukraine, as if invading a country were a unique act. They only consider it to be unique because it was neither the U.S. or Israel that did it. They literally can't remember any other attacks or invasions other than Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They can't remember any history in that region before February 2022. They can't remember any history in Israel before October, 2023. They have no idea what's going on there. They think Israel is just defending itself. When Swiss media write about Israel attacking Qatar, they don't ask <i>WTF IS GOING ON?</i> No, of course not. Instead, they ask "Where else might Hamas be hiding?" I'm sure they would absolutely welcome measures to rout "Hamas" out of Switzerland by simultaneously egesting every swarthy-looking Muslim or Arabic speaker, just to be on the safe side. We wouldn't want to piss off Israel, which would, in that case, be completely justified in bombing Switzerland. That would be understandable, as they would then only be stamping out obvious antisemitism. The situation is truly sickening. But it is not surprising.