....Israeli terrorist settler soldiers who rampage, kill, brutalize and rape in Gaza have remorse feelings after butchering tens of thousands of those human animals, the Palestinians. Read below the melodramatic bullshit of the criminals having problems after they commit the crime and send clips about their crimes to their friends. We're supposed to feel empathy for the murderer but not for his victims. The ISraeli terrorist in question in the article below has videos of himself bulldozing homes and buildings in Gaza and posing in
front of the dead bodies he crushed and the vandalized structures. We are now asked to feel pity for him because he killed himself ?
This is life imitating mediocre Hollywood art that peddles all the Zionist lies to a captive dumb American audience. They did it with Vietnam when US soldiers willingly and deliberately burned and slashed and murdered tens of thousands of innocent Vietnamese people, only to return to the US and find that their society and government doesn't give a shit about them. But then Hollywood steps in and makes "suffering heroes" out of jaundiced idiots on drugs from the boonies of America. The suffering of the Vietnamese victims is never the subject of movies. No one ever hears their stories of endurance and bravery in winning the absurd war against a colonial dumb America fighting its stupid war against the "communist" strawman. Today a unified and free Vietnam is a communist country but is friends with the US. So what was the point of Vietnam's "war on communism" if we don't apply its lessons to the "war on terrorism" in Palestine?
What does Israel expect from sending its children kill and maim for futile, if not insidious, plans to expand the Jewish colony and steal more land. Some people never learn from history. The so-called "Jewish people" have long documented their own failure at learning from their own history in the garbage fiction of the torah where they self-proclaim themselves God's favorite people. What do they expect from raping a land that is theirs only in the hallucinations of desert nomads some 4,000 years ago? And they expect the modern world to subscribe to their own primitive Bronze Age bullshit?
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[Below are excerpts, not the full article]
‘He got out of Gaza, but Gaza did not get out of him’: Israeli soldiers returning from war struggle with trauma and suicide
Editor’s note: This story contains details of suicide and violence that some readers may find upsetting.
A 40-year-old father of four, Eliran Mizrahi deployed to Gaza after the deadly Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.
The Israeli military reservist returned a different person, traumatized by what he had witnessed in the war against Hamas in the strip, his family told CNN. Six months after he was first sent to fight, he was struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) back at home. Before he was due to redeploy, he took his own life.
“He got out of Gaza, but Gaza did not get out of him. And he died after it, because of the post-trauma,” his mother, Jenny Mizrahi, said.
The Israeli military has said it is providing care for thousands of soldiers who are suffering from PTSD or mental illnesses caused by trauma during the war. It is unclear how many have taken their own lives, as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has not provided an official figure.
One year on, Israel’s war in Gaza has killed more than 42,000 people, according to the health ministry in the strip, with the United Nations reporting that most of the dead are women and children. And as it now expands to Lebanon, some soldiers say they dread being drafted into yet another conflict.
“A lot of us are very scared of getting drafted again to a war in Lebanon,” an IDF medic who served four months in Gaza told CNN, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter. “A lot of us don’t trust the government right now.”
Israeli authorities – with rare exceptions – have closed off Gaza to foreign journalists unless under IDF escort, making it difficult to capture the full extent of Palestinian suffering. Israeli soldiers who fought in
the enclave told CNN they witnessed horrors the outside world can never
truly comprehend. Their accounts offer a rare glimpse into the brutality
of what critics have called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s
“forever war.”
For many soldiers, the battle is taking a mental toll that, due to stigma, is largely hidden from view. Interviews with Israeli soldiers, a medic, and the family of Mizrahi, the reservist who took his own life, provide a window into the psychological burden that the war is casting on Israeli society.
Mizrahi deployed to Gaza on October 8 last year and was tasked with driving a D-9 bulldozer, a 62-ton armored vehicle that can withstand bullets and explosives. He was a civilian for most of his life, working as a manager at an Israeli construction company.
The reservist spent 186 days in the enclave until he sustained injuries to his knee, followed by hearing damage in February when a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) struck his vehicle, his family said. He was pulled out of Gaza for treatment, and in April was diagnosed with PTSD, receiving weekly talk therapy.
His treatment did not help.
“They didn’t know how to treat them (soldiers),” Jenny, who is an extremist settler living in the Israeli Ma’ale Adumim settlement, in the occupied West Bank, said, “They (soldiers) said the war was so different. They saw things that were never seen in Israel.”
When Mizrahi was on leave, he suffered from bouts of anger, sweating, insomnia and social withdrawal, his family said. He told his family that only those who were in Gaza with him could understand what he was going through.
“He always said, no one will understand what I saw,” his sister, Shir, told CNN.
Jenny wondered if her son killed someone and couldn’t handle it.
“He saw a lot of people die. Maybe he even killed someone. (But) we don’t teach our children to do things like this,” she said. “So, when he did this, something like this, maybe it was a shock for him.”
Guy Zaken, Mizrahi’s friend and co-driver of the bulldozer, provided further insight into their experience in Gaza. “We saw very, very, very difficult things,” Zaken told CNN. “Things that are difficult to accept.”
The former soldier has spoken publicly about the psychological trauma endured by Israeli troops in Gaza. In a testimony to the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, in June, Zaken said that on many occasions, soldiers had to “run over terrorists, dead and alive, in the hundreds.”
“Everything squirts out,” he added.
Zaken says he can no longer eat meat, as it reminds him of the gruesome scenes he witnessed from his bulldozer in Gaza, and struggles to sleep at night, the sound of explosions ringing in his head.
“When you see a lot of meat outside, and blood… both ours and theirs, then it really affects you when you eat,” he told CNN, referring to bodies as “meat.”
There is a “very strong collective attitude” of distrust among Israeli soldiers toward the Palestinians in Gaza, especially at the outset of the war, the medic said. There is a notion that Gazans, including civilians, “are bad, that they support Hamas, that they were hiding ammunition,” the medic said.
In the field, however, some of these attitudes changed “when you actually see Gazan civilians in front of your eyes,” they said.
Despite this, civilians in Gaza have been repeatedly killed in large numbers, including when sheltering in areas the military itself has designated as “safe zones.”
After Mizrahi took his own life, videos and photos surfaced on social media of the reservist bulldozing homes and buildings in Gaza and posing in front of vandalized structures. Some of the images, which were purportedly posted on his now removed social media accounts, appeared in a documentary that he was interviewed for on Israel’s Channel 13.
Asked by CNN about the number of suicides in the IDF since the war, Uzi Bechor, a psychologist and commander of the IDF’s Combat Response Unit, said the medical corps is not allowed to provide a figure, and the military sees the suicide rate as largely unchanged.
Still, more than a third of those removed from combat are found to have mental health issues. In a statement in August, the Israeli defense ministry’s rehabilitation division said that every month, more than 1,000 new wounded soldiers are removed from fighting for treatment, 35% of whom complain about their mental state, with 27% developing “a mental reaction or post-traumatic stress disorder.”
In 2021, suicide was the leading cause of death among IDF soldiers, the Times of Israel reported, citing military data that showed at least 11 soldiers had taken their own lives that year.
The IDF medic who spoke to CNN said that there is a mental health officer designated to every unit of the army during and after deployment. The impact of the war nonetheless persists, the medic said, with soldiers as young as 18 suffering from mental trauma in Gaza. They would often cry or would appear emotionally numb, the medic added.
Meanwhile, the suffering of Palestinians has largely been absent from
Israeli television screens, which are dominated by news about the
hostages in Gaza.
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