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IDF soldier terrified for life after tiny baby gets enough food to survive for six more hours (thehardtimes.net)

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Yosef Peretz, an IDF soldier stationed in watch towers at a Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid station, is fearing for his life after seeing Palestinian babies getting scraps of food that might sustain them for the next few hours, sources confirmed.

“I’ve been having trouble sleeping at night ever since the food started arriving in Gaza. Just yesterday I saw a four-year-old girl smile while eating handfuls of raw rice, I took that as a direct attack on me and on Israel because I know Hamas is somewhere in that girl’s stomach cooking that rice and making it into a bomb that they will drop on an innocent Israeli baby,” said Peretz. “And just this morning, I saw a newborn baby eating some sort of paste. Now that baby might have enough energy to storm the guard towers and I’ll be forced to engage in hand-to-hand combat. I know that baby has been radicalized by Hamas, and it could take me hostage.” [...]

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[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think their fear is if we give these kids enough food to survive they might grow up and be angry that we starved them when they were kids.

[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 3 points 22 hours ago

When experience from Ireland, Vietnam, Japan, Germany, France etc all yell us that grudges disappear when people are free.

The IDF soldiers fear is misplaced. The rulers of Israel fear not having a subclass bogeyman.