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Feb 14Liked by Avigail Abarbanel

Soldiers who aren't psychopaths are often the first to say NO!

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Feb 14·edited Feb 14Author

You are right but Israeli psyche and social structure are cult-like. It is hard to speak out in that kind of psychological pressure cooker. Breaking the Silence do a lot of outreach and try to help other soldiers think about what they are doing, so they do not make the same mistakes they did. They are putting their humanity ahead of the cult and it is quite something.

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There are many more who would go on to commit crimes with whatever justification they give themselves, than those who opt out. I read somewhere that at least 500k Israeli Jews have left the country since last October never to come back. Jews have no business there. My entire family lives there and they are all tainted by the crimes their country is committing. My family are all racist and completely brainwashed in the cult. They have been desensitised to the suffering of others and are taught that Jews were the biggest victims and even the only victims in human history. It is that bad over there. They are nuts.

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I’m sorry to hear about your family. It’s so sad when we don’t have the mutual benefits of our God given families. So many of us are in the same boat. It’s easier for them to go with “s/he’s the (nutty) black sheep” in the modern social context where families are less important to the individual than the state. I also think a lot of citizens will have left and I’m told that there’s a growing and significant percentage of mercenaries hired.

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Feb 16·edited Feb 16

As I’ve said before your understanding of psychopathy is outstanding and also your understanding of the overall human condition and how it relates in specifics to (Israhell) or what could have become “Isratine” but remains Zionist Occupied Palestine.

There are few who qualify as you, I believe, to have such profound insight into all these factors shaping the human condition and its relationship with the current events of the ongoing genocide in Occupied Palestine.

Moreover, now living in the West and in the belly of the Mother of Settler Colonialism you’re moreover able to relate all this to westerners of all types and the global picture and context. This is why despite the horribly traumatic subject matter, the unfolding of the genocide which took place also in other settler colonial Occupied First Nations such as North America before mass media existed, reading your articles is reassuring that we’re not alone and there are people out there that totally “get it” and not least that anyone with a functioning heart and brain, a conscience, can get out of the engineered and crafted consensus reality back into the full reality of actually what is, discard the false indoctrination and unlike what so many fear, that the truth is something they won’t be able to handle and survive and thus that the path of least resistance and ongoing denial will lead to peace of mind and survival rather than the reality which is that the truth sets you free and you and all others like you are testimony of that.

This is also why your writing needs to reach more people and even helps survivors of psychopathic abuse as it is both validating and encouraging. Your Substack needs a lot more readers have you looked into how it works with promotion and recommendation by and of other good Substack? I’m not up on it at all, I know that Substack have done a lot of work in this area though over the past year and probably have documentation which I guess you’ve read.

Here’s an article that you may find as interesting as I did from someone who has visited Occupied Palestine and been involved in the freedom struggle most of his life and just started a Substack which also needs promoting: https://flyingimam.substack.com/p/palestine-after-gaza-reality-check you can see more about him at his website flyingimam.com

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Feb 17Liked by Avigail Abarbanel

Conversations with anti Zionist Jew and historian Professor Ilan Pappé https://youtu.be/DfVwIbTt4pc?si=YTZMDY732L2cTTpb

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Feb 14·edited Feb 14Author

I agree. People should think before they act. But if they did it, at least they speak out about it. Don’t worry. I am not wobbly in the knees about them. They are still war criminals. I have much more respect for those young people who refuse to do their military service altogether. But I would rather have a war criminal or any criminal who is capable of feeling healthy guilt and who has a conscience and tries to make amends after the fact, than one who doesn’t. It is a sad world we live in that there is so little to take comfort in. You know, another thing we were taught in Israel is that all German people were responsible for the holocaust with the exception of anyone who did something active to help Jews. How is that for hypocrisy? I didn’t even go to see Oppenheimer because I can’t be bothered about the bleeding heart of a man who invented the atomic bomb and regretted it afterwards. I can’t believe he didn’t know what he was doing… So yes, I am in complete agreement with you. I think we are a failed species. We have such potential and we are throwing it all to the wind.

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