Decades of impunity, for the Israeli regime as well as its criminal soldiers, has led us to this point.

In one video, an Israeli soldier dressed in a dinosaur costume loads artillery shells into a tank and dances as the shells are fired in the direction of Gaza. In another video, a soldier is filmed dedicating an explosion to his two-year-old daughter for her birthday. Seconds later, a Palestinian residential building behind him is blown up. Other videos show Israeli soldiers setting alight Palestinian food supplies during a starvation campaign and mocking stripped, rounded-up and blindfolded Palestinian civilians.

And genocidal intent has never been so blatantly expressed by both soldiers and political leaders.

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    “The IDF has taken action and will continue acting to identify misconduct and behavior that does not align with the expected morals and values of IDF soldiers,” it said in a statement sent to CNN.

    The problem is, this kind of behavior aligns perfectly with:

    In one video, a soldier is seen going through a woman’s wardrobe, including her underwear, making derogatory, sexist remarks about Arab women.

    A photo shared online shows a soldier standing next to a Hebrew sign spraypainted on a wall in Gaza that says: “Instead of erasing graffiti, let us erase Gaza.”

    The Israeli soldier looks directly into the camera, then turns around and sets a pile of food supplies on fire. “We turn on the light against this dark place and burn it until there is no trace of this whole place,” he says as another soldier fuels the flame.

    I couldn’t be more disgusted with where my tax dollars are going.

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        What to do with 6 billion dollars?

        • Give all hookers a national holiday

        • Genetically engineer Murlocs

        • Throw it into a trash can and light it on fire

        • Create the world’s biggest monument to cheese

        Of course I would prefer to have it sent into programs that feed the poor, increase teachers and educational salaries, better affordable housing, student loan forgiveness, or creating better public transportation systems. Just anything besides this.

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          Agreed. How can we get this to actually happen rather than uselessly complaining on the internet like obese internet armchair political scientists?

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            There are actually quite a few happening across America, doesn’t take much only a few minutes of your time, you don’t have to stay the whole day, just as much time as you can spare. I have only participated in 1 thus far, I will be attending my second this week.

            • Email/Write to your congress

            • Email your president

            • Talk with your peers about the subject, help with any disinformation they have been given.

            • Don’t give up.

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              Why do your comments all follow a pattern like an LLM chat bot?

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                Because you’re a troll trying to influence people to do nothing instead of anything to resist letting Israel innocents with bombs we provided

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                  How do we start resisting letting Israel bomb innocents? Please don’t say protesting because that shit doesn’t work as you can see since they’ve continued bombing the shit out of Palestine nonstop since October.

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                    There is basically nothing we can do, call your congress people and tell them you are starting to fund raise for their opponents because of their stance.