He's a Russian "immigrant" settler to Palestine. He fought Hamas on October 7, 2023 but has now taken his own life out of despair at realizing that Israel is after all a colonial deadend.
Israeli reactions to their own violence against the Palestinian civilian population have more to do with their difficult realization that Israel is condemned to live in a constant state of war. But this is true as long as the Israeli ethos is one of supremacy, violence, racism, denial of a Palestinian national identity, denigration of the Palestinians whose lands and country they stole, and this constant impulse to territorial expansion which they explain to themselves as necessary to protect themselves.
If this is true, then all hope is lost for a normal life. Unless the 5-6 million Palestinians sudddenly vanish or sublimate into thin air - which is what the fanatic Jews of the Zionist movement believe is doable with a little more killing, genocide and ethnic cleansing - Israelis need to take stock of the fact that theirs is a deadend objective.
Igor Pibenev, an Israeli police officer, has taken his own life. The vicissitudes of emigrating and adjusting to an alien culture in Palestine had become unbearable, especially after the October 7 massacre by Hamas against Israel.
Igor Pibenev rushed from his post in Israeli-occupied Hebron to his home near Gaza upon hearing of the Hamas attack, killing militants along the way. His wife said that many like Igor are living with guilt and post traumatic stress disorder.
He said, “We had trained for scenarios like this but I never imagined we’d face such a large number of terrorists”. Labeling the Palestinians as "terrorists" has become standard, like in all colonial wars of liberation where the colonizer calls the indigenous militants fighting to recover their land and their sovereignty from foreign invaders and colonial settlers as "terrorists". The French did it in Algeria and Indochina. The White Afrikaner apartheid regime of South Africa labeled the African National Congress (ANC) and its leader Nelson Mandela as "terrorists". We know the saying, "one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist", and it applies to Palestine as well.
What drives Israelis to despair is their deep knowledge that they can't have what they want in colonized Palestine: A purely Jewish state with only Jews as citizens and over the entire land from the river to the sea. This is an achievable goal, unless they commit the largest genocide and ethnic cleansing of history by somehow eliminating all of the Palestinians out of existence.
A growing number of Israeli survivors of October 7 have taken their own lives, and some families blame the Israeli government for not doing enough for their welfare in the weeks and months after the attack in 2023. But the problem is much deeper: It is the policies of successive radical hardline Zionist regimes that have driven the indigenous Palestinians to despair and to untold violence against Israeli civilians, which in turn exacerbates the feeling among many Israelis that their "country" is at best destined to live in a constant state of war unless the despair of the Palestinians is itself first addressed. Both sides commemorate the same event on May 15: Israel's independence is itself the Catastrophic rape of historic Palestine. How can it be otherwise?
By what measure of reason can one justify that hordes of foreign settlers invade a country, take most of its land from its owners with much massacres, violence, rapes and expulsions, and create a brand new country on its ashes? The founding of Israel was premised on a colonial takeover of Palestine by European Jews long before the Holocaust. So the argument that European Jews fleeing Nazi barbarity needed another country to go to is well taken, but it was a subsidiary argument to the initial me-too colonial impulse of European Jews wanting their own playground colony somewhere. Uganda and Argentina were discussed as options long before Palestine. So why did it have to be at the expense of an ancient peaceful people living for millennia in its villages and cities? What ethics is this that says that Palestinians who fled their hometowns and cities must now live in squalid refugee camps? What do you expect a raped dispossessed people do when confronted with their own demise at the hands of foreign invaders?
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