Palestine
A community for everything related to Palestine and the occupation currently underway by the occupying force known as Israel.
Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.
Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.
We always take the sides of Palestine and Palestinians and are unapologetic about it. Israel is an occupying power whose "defence force"'s (note the contradiction) sole purpose for existing is to push Palestinians out so they can resettle their rightful land. If you have anything positive to say about Israel we do not care.
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I'm reminded how Frantz Fanon describes, at length, how the colonial situation could produce many comorbidities in his patients. He treated both indigenous Algerians and French settlers, and he had a lot to say about both. I think there was one instance where he was responsible for treating a torturer, who could continually hear screaming whenever he tried to sleep.
He went to great lengths to describe how the colonial situation dehumanizes the colonizer and the colonized.
I think about that whenever Israel comes up.
The yanks had well-documented problems with substance abuse related to their war against Vietnam, probably also from other atrocities. The Nazis were infamous for doing Pervitin, although I don't know where the historical truth stops and the urban legends begin with that one.
Atrocity-related substance abuse is a real thing.
reminds one a little bit of "Havana Syndrome": CIA ghouls drinking heavily (or other self-destructive behaviors) to silence their guilt
Same with the widespread use of methamphetamine among the armed forces of the third Reich. One part was about keeping them awake and altert over long stretches of time, another was about smothering their humanity so they could do all that mass murdering without much fuss. The side effects were brutal of course, but as Parenti once so aptly wrote: Fascist governments treat their soldiers like bullets, they don't care about lasting effects on them. The soldiers get used and then thrown away.
Every time I think about Usonian soldiers with PTSD I think how el Che or Castro were always perfectly good even though they had killed people. It's because they never enjoyed the violence applied on the imperialists, it was driven by a desire for freedom.