Conflict between Palestine and Israel escalates

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At this point I'm wondering what israeli school children are taught about the holocaust, because the generation of "soldiers" it is using either are completely unaware of how to recognise the signs of a genocide, or have been raised to be complete sociopaths who don't care even if the signs of what they are doing are blatantly obvious.
I mean, some 700.000 people were kicked off their land right after the Holocaust ended to establish Israel, so this blindness has been present since day 1.
 

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At this point I'm wondering what israeli school children are taught about the holocaust, because the generation of "soldiers" it is using either are completely unaware of how to recognise the signs of a genocide, or have been raised to be complete sociopaths who don't care even if the signs of what they are doing are blatantly obvious.
It's always different when it's "our" side doing it. By comparison, as fascism has become the modern bogeyman, modern fascists accuse their opponents of it.
 

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At this point I'm wondering what israeli school children are taught about the holocaust, because the generation of "soldiers" it is using either are completely unaware of how to recognise the signs of a genocide, or have been raised to be complete sociopaths who don't care even if the signs of what they are doing are blatantly obvious.
Well, there is a narration that mostly concentrates on how horrible it was and what the victims experienced and little on the perpretrators and what led them to do it. In a sense it is to be expected to concentrate on the side one identifies with but them the whole holocaust gets told as culmination of general millenia old antisemitism all over the world and the main lesson becomes "jews are only safe in their own nation which is why Israel is the solution" instead of "facism is bad".
 

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A UN ceasefire resolution has finally passed, which also calls for the immediate release of hostages. The US abstained because it doesn't condemn Hamas.
 
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It also notably demands a ceasefire, unlike the US resolution previously.
It also demands the unconditional release of all hostages. It does not define who is considered a hostage; are the various men, women, and children held indefinitely by Israel under 'administrative detention'-- without any formal charge-- hostages?
 
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At this point I'm wondering what israeli school children are taught about the holocaust, because the generation of "soldiers" it is using either are completely unaware of how to recognise the signs of a genocide, or have been raised to be complete sociopaths who don't care even if the signs of what they are doing are blatantly obvious.
They're taught a pretty warped version of 'never again'. We generally accept the sentiment to be that the world should never allow that to happen again.
They're running with a weaponised version which amounts more to a 'never again, to us. At any cost'.
 

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The United States cannot provide security assistance to foreign governments or groups that commit gross human rights violations, a red line enshrined in the so-called Leahy Law. Moreover, the Biden administration announced in February 2023 that it would not provide arms to recipients deemed likely to commit serious human rights violations. Some legal scholars and other critics have alleged that the United States has not applied the Leahy Law with regard to Israel as it has with other Middle Eastern countries.


lol, ya think?