https://www.972mag.com/israeli-army-refusal-crisis-gaza-war/

Menuchin also attributes significant weight to economic factors, but offers an additional explanation: “Israelis don’t want to feel like suckers, and they’re now reaching a point where they feel they’re being exploited. They see others getting exemptions, and they wager that if something happens to them, no one will support them or their families. There’s a feeling of abandonment: they see the families of the hostages crowdfunding just to survive. The bottom line is that the state isn’t really there, and that’s becoming clear to more and more Israelis.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    they’re fine with genocide, they’re just afraid of being sniped by a PIJ marksman or being arrested whilst on holiday