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I genuinely thought this was hyperbolic satire.

EDIT: Outlet has edited headline since time of posting.

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[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 13 points 8 hours ago

Oh how I long for the sweet bitter taste of ironic onion.

But nope. Way to much actual meat and gristle in this story.
Fuck these people who keep thinking the suffering of others is good for internet engagement.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

that's a weird way to spell "israeli soldiers commit a war crime"

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 hours ago

Yet another one

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

This is nanking tier shit.

[–] DicJacobus@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

My Lai, except the thought police are already rolled out, and ready to prosecute/persecute anyone who complains.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ethnic Genocide is now fully Normalized in Israel.

In some ways this is actually beyond Nazi Germany, were the actual perpetrators of the genocide did not make a public show of their murdering of the people they saw as untermenschen.

This kind of thing is a pretty good indication that there is far broader acceptance (glee, even) amongst the Israeli population for Genocide than there was amongst the German population in Nazi Germany.

[–] piyuv@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder what if nazi germany had access to social media, recommendation algorithms, bots, etc… influencing masses has never been this easy in history

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

From what I've heard the extreme racism is generalized in the Mainstream Press in Israel, so I'm not sure that it's the Social Media that's making Genocide along ethnic lines be more broadly accepted there than it was in Nazi Germany.

That said, the fables in Israel around "The Jewish People" and its identity with the Palestinians as "antagonists", have been spun for far longer and the antagonism has been going on for far longer (since the creation of the state of Israel) than the ones in Nazi Germany with Jews as "antagonist", so maybe the much longer time (about 70 years) during which Israelis have been indoctrinated about their own ethnic superiority and the "antagonism" of Palestinians in Israel compared to the length of the similar indoctrination of the population in Nazi Germany, is the main cause for the more broad acceptance of Genocide amongst the populus in Israel than in Nazi Germany.

If you've grown up hearing about how you're part of a superior people ("God's chosen people") and Palestinians are The Enemy who hate you and want you dead, and your parents too grew up like that, you're probably far, far, more likely to be an extreme racist that trully believes themselves to be inherently superior and that Palestinians as not really human like themselves - hence having zero empathy for the suffering of Palestinians and maybe even relishing in it - than somebody who has only been exposed to similar shit for a decade or two.

[–] altphoto 10 points 16 hours ago

Aw! It's Satan gray! No wait, its pure evil blue, its a trump!. Nah! If you look closely you'll notice all the buildings belonged to poor defenseless people. So it's probably a rich evil asshole!

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 104 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (7 children)

That's not a good look for Al Jazeera.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 22 points 1 day ago

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

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 15 points 19 hours ago

Please fix the title.

[–] BinaryUnit@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago

Fucking Animals

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 23 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] hellfire103@lemmy.ca 166 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 hours ago

Headline was inaccurate - they didn't bomb a place for a gender reveal. Instead they bombed a place that produced blue smoke for some other reason and joked about how it resembling a gender reveal. That's...not better but it's an important distinction - one is blowing shit up to announce it's a boy and the other is blowing shit up to blow shit up and then joking about the color of the smoke.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 day ago (9 children)

wait, but does that mean i’m in a coma, or im a figment of your imagination and im in your coma?

but i agree, it’s too absurdly horrible to be plausible

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[–] Ottoman@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago

Fuck israël ans fuck IDF

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 88 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

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[–] klu9@lemmy.ca 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Baguette@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.world 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours 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.

[–] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

Fuck Israel.

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