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American Dr Mark Perlmutter, who has volunteered in Gaza, says one of his Palestinian colleagues was taken by Israeli occupation forces, had his fingers shattered and was told to confess to being a member of Hamas or have his wife gang raped in front of him.

Soldiers ‘crushed’ his fingers, Perlmutter explains, adding that they also threatened to ‘send a drone to your bedroom window and incinerate your children.’ The doctor did not confess and spent 11 months being tortured in Israeli detention.

  • tacobellhop@midwest.socialEnglish
    292·
    5 days ago

    You gotta wonder how Israel will get out from under netenyahu/spelling. He’s their sadam now

    • bedouin@infosec.pubEnglish
      231·
      5 days ago

      Nope nope nope. Putting the blame entirely on Netanyahu is like putting the entire blame on Trump. Both are symptoms of an underlying society and many people enabling and condoning that behavior. Look at stats, watch translated videos of their media, read Israeli and non-Israeli historians. This shit ain’t new and some would argue is exactly what the Zionist state was created to carry out.

      • tacobellhop@midwest.socialEnglish
        8·
        5 days ago

        Oh youre not wrong but sadam wasn’t in a vacuum either is my broader point. These personalities have always existed in every time period in human history. It wasn’t until the cognitive revolution of he 50s did we start to develop archetypes of personalities and on a broader macro sense the cognitive behaviors of societies as a whole.

        • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
          6·
          5 days ago

          Saddam quickly went from ruling by popular support to ruling by scaring the shit out of any opposition.

          Netanyahu and other Fascists in Israel still enjoy comfortable majority support in Israel. Even if people protest against Netanyahu, they are largely still in favor of ethnical cleansing and genocide against the Palestinians. Most people in Iraq didn’t need reeducation when Saddam was toppled. The vast majority of Israelis need a reeducation and be confronted with their crimes at large and have hundreds of thousands of their war criminals permanently locked away in order to cure the Fascism that has deep roots in their society now. It will take decades to safe them from who they have chosen to become.

          • tacobellhop@midwest.socialEnglish
            2·
            4 days ago

            Populism always leads to fascism pretty much every time. It’s the third part of the fire formula. Air fuel and spark.

            Capitalism populism and power becomes fascism.