'We're Not the Same People Anymore': IDF Soldiers Reveal What No Israeli Wants to Hear About Months of Fighting in Gaza

Sent into #Gaza straight from high school, five young #Israel conscripts describe the brutal, exhausting reality of the war with #Hamas – a world of despair, rage and crippling fear, with no end in sight

from #Haaretz
Tom Levinson
Jul 3, 2025

"Soldiers interviewed are handpicked by commanders and #IDF spokespersons and thoroughly briefed on what they can and cannot say. And so, reporters return with the same clichés: "This is a generation of lions," they declare. "Morale is sky-high."

But active-duty army soldiers who spoke to Haaretz in recent months paint a very different picture...

They describe mounting exhaustion, severe physical and psychological strain, and a constant fear that they'll be the next to have their names released as fallen."

haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-0…

#Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine @israel

HÜZÜNLÜ BİR AŞK HİKAYESİ ; GAM ZEDEYİM DEVA BULMAM...
Tüm şarkıların bir hikayesi vardır...
"Gamzede’yim Deva Bulmam."
Şarkısı da bu tür şarkılardan biridir...
Hemen belirtelim, Gam-zede, üzüntü sebebiyle kötü duruma düşmüş anlamındadır.
Hikayenin kahramanı Kemani Tatyos Efendi’nin kendi cemaatinden çocukluk aşkı bir sevdiği varmış.
Aile o tarihlerde Erivan’a göç ettiğinden evlenememişler.
Aradan uzun seneler geçmiş Tatyos efendi evlenmiş çocukları olmuş ancak kadın hiç evlenmemiş ve bir gün İstanbul’a dönmüş.
Bunu öğrenen Tatyos Efendi sözlerini de yazarak bir eser bestelemiş...
Kısa zaman sonra Beyoğlu’nda bir meyhanede gece nihayete ererken birkaç müşteri ve sandalyeleri toplayıp yerleri süpüren birkaç çocuktan başka kimse kalmamışken birlikte oturdukları Vasili ve Ahmet Rasim Bey de tam gitmeye hazırlanırken Tatyos Efendi kemana uzanmış sanki saatlerdir içen ve çalan o değilmiş gibi kemanı omuzuna yerleştirip, hafifçe başını kemana eğerek, dudaklarında acı bir tebessümle o ana kadar duyulmamış o uşşak şarkıyı ilk defa söylemiş...


Gamzede’yim deva bulmam,
Garibim bir yuva kurmam,
Kaderimdir hep çektiren,
İnlerim hiç reha bulmam.
Elem beni terketmiyor,
Hiç de fasıla vermiyor,
Nihayetsiz bu takibe,
Doğrusu ta'kât yetmiyor.
Ehl-i dilin yoktur kadri,
Uğraşma gel Tatyos gayri,
Eserin çok kıymetin yok,
Git talihine küs bari...


Tatyos kemanı omuzundan indirdiğinde hiç kimsenin tek bir kelime edecek hali yoktur...
Vasili hıçkıra hıçkıra ağlıyor meyhane de kalanlar da göz yaşlarını birbirlerine sezdirmeden silmeye çalışıyorlar...
Birkaç hafta içinde İstanbul’da bu şarkıyı ezberlemeyen ne hânende ne sâzende kalıyor...
Şarkıyı besteledikten bir ay sonra Tatyos Efendi vefat ediyor naaşı kilisede iken otuz yıl önceki çocukluk aşkı olan kadın Ahmet Rasim’in yanına üzerinde
"Tatyos ile birlikte defnedilecektir..."
yazılı bir zarf bırakıyor...
Yarım saat sonra Tatyos’un naaşı ile birlikte toprağa verilecek zarfın içinde şu dizeler yazılıdır;*


*Gamzede'sin devân benim
Garip kuşsun yuvan benim
Çektiğimiz yeter gayri
Kaderimsin inan benim.
Ta'kât yetişmez eleme,
Bülbül imrenir çileme.
Bizim şu kara sevdamız,
Kalsın öteki aleme.
(...)
ALINTI

"Not then, not now, never again fascism
Never forget Srebrenica genocide"

Mural in Amsterdam of Potočari cemetery featuring the names of different Bosnian towns and cities with the corresponding estimated amount of victims.

Almost 30 years has passed since Europe was shaken by the genocide of more than 8000 muslim boys and men in the Bosnian city of Srebrenica, at the hands of Bosnian Serb troops during an operation of ethnic cleansing, witnessed by UN peacekeeping troops who failed resoundingly in their protection mission.

In the midst of the conflict in the Balkans during the 1990’s, the small city of Srebrenica, in Eastern Bosnia, was established as a “safe area” by the UN for civilians fleeing fights between Bosnian government and separatist Serb forces, during the breakup of Yugoslavia.

On 11 July 1995, Serb forces attacked Srebrenica lead by Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladić, conducting a ten-day operation to take over Srebrenica and subject it to ethnic cleansing. More than 8000 people were killed, mainly Bosnian muslim boys and men.

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Peter Thiel, co-founder of Palantir, seems visibly nervous when asked about Israel's use of AI in Gaza.

You know humanity is waking up and seeing through it all!

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“The number of trauma cases, the severity of the injuries, the lack of basic supplies, and the overwhelming number of children affected — it’s unlike anything I’ve ever seen elsewhere.” theintercept.com/2025/07/07/is…

"Democrats shouldn’t be afraid to name names. How many fewer homes would have been destroyed if congressional Republicans hadn’t spent decades stopping bills to reduce planet-heating greenhouse gas emissions...? Rather than just ordering investigations, Democrats should state the obvious: Climate change is killing people and destroying communities across the United States, and Republicans at every level of government are making life here more dangerous."

newrepublic.com/article/197662…

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@Prickly Pam (D-PA) Floods in Texas are natural. Nobody is to blame. Weather happens, and anywhere you have rich farmland you have a history of floods, for it is floods that bring silt down from weathered rock in mountains to replenish depleted minerals. And anywhere you have fertile farmland you have humans in the way of those same floods. Yea I know the Climate Wealth Transfer scammers will try to take advantage of every opportunity but no amount of taxation will stop weather.

"In a move that activists are saying is an attempt to quell the passionate student and worker movement for Palestinian liberation within the City University of New York (CUNY), student organizer Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik has been suspended for a year.

"Along with CCNY’s academic sanction case against Malik, CUNY has also fired four faculty members."

mondoweiss.net/2025/07/cuny-su…

@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #CUNY #NYC #NewYork #education #academia

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making a video game for the Colecovision in Z80 assembly language was the best lesson in I had in embedded programming...better than any formal course on the subject.

Its BIOS, called OS7, was pretty decent too so you could leverage it to do some of the minutiae and concentrate on the fun stuff. I suspect the same is true about the routines in the C64 KERNEL and BASIC ROMs.

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TURQUIE. Les femmes kurdes bloquent les travaux d’un projet minier
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"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – Dans la province kurde de Diyarbakir (Amed), des femmes ont organisé un sit-in pour interrompre les travaux d’un projet controversé d’une mine de cuivre. Leur protestation vise à dénoncer un passé de violences qui a déjà dévasté leur village à sept reprises. Dans le village de Mizak, dans le

There would never be a better time for Q to reappear than now, and talk about how Epstein was a distraction to get the real criminals, Obummer and the demonrats.

>You would have never believed the truth if I told it to you from the beginning anon.
>You needed something you could relate to; pedophilia.
>But now you need to let it go because the true crimes are SO much worse.
>They've purposely kept the black men down after stealing their technology, 5000 years ago in Egypt...

Trump’s 50% copper import tariff said to cover refined metal. This is important because copper is in practically everything, and it's a bellwether commodity for recession as well.

mining.com/web/trumps-50-coppe…

#usa #economy

More #Israeli #gaslighting and #propaganda. It has never been anti-semitic to criticize or "demonize" #Israel and anyone that tells you so is full of shit. Israel claiming something is "anti-semitic" when it clearly isn't is simply their way of manipulating opinions so they can't be held accountable for their actions. Well, enough is enough. ---

Earth’s Poet of Scale | The New Yorker newyorker.com/culture/photo-bo…

Documenting the world's destruction.


Tags: #dandelíon #Environment #pollution #climate #anthropocene

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it's incredible how the e-rightoids think they only have two options every single fucking time MUH TRANNIES try to appropriate anything:
a) immediately give up the thing they loved up until 5 mins ago (and even go "well ackshully in retrospect that thing i loved was always tranny-coded so good riddance")
b) bitch about it in their social media circles without ever actually doing anything (this eventually leads to option a every single time without failure)
but option c (actively fighting against it/ignoring it altogether) is never ever on the table

learned helplessness is both terrifying and disgusting :jahy_disgust:

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I'm about to give up my organic balcony gardening experiment. This is a cry for help.


I'm a bit emotional right now. But in the bad way to be fair.
I just got stung by a wasp without any reason, after having to take a extensive shower before because my body was totally itchy from all the mites and whatnot. UGH! 😫

I've been pretty proud in the beginning of this experiment, because there were lots of wild bees, beetles and other cool critters around here. It's basically like being in nature.

But I forgot that nature sucks... 🥲

For example, imagine laying in the grass and just chilling.
Beautiful for the first 5 seconds, but then, you begin getting stung in the asscreek by a dozen ants and get everything ruined.

Nature is basically dead in my area, so only the asshole bugs survive here.

The whole balcony is swarmed by aphids/ mites as well as ant colonies that protect those suckers from ladybugs and other beneficial predatory insects.

The aphids droop honeydew everywhere, which attracts lots of yellow jacket wasps, which in return could kill my girlfriend in minutes because she's highly allergic.
I didn't even realise that asshole (the wasp, lol) is there until I got stung just by existing.

I'm right about to pull the trigger and get my pesticides (neem oil/ pyrethrum extract) out.

Also, I began to hate soil even more than before.
I have to hunt for slugs every evening, because they're everywhere, and I can barely stand a chance against them.
There are gnats living in it too, as well as other unwanted guests.

The plants in soil are starting to spread diseases and pests to my otherwise healthy plants in hydroponics. I will for example harvest my weed soon, and there are bugs sticking in the buds like in a glue trap. I have no idea how I should get them out of them, it's just disgusting.

I also largely prefer hydro compared to soil, not only because there are less pests, but also because due to the much lower water demand and control it gives me.
The soil is guzzling water like crazy and still the plants are looking way less healthy.

Spraying neem oil on my hydro plants and just not using soil anymore seems to be the way better choice right now.

Sorry for the rant. It had to be.

What should I do?

An interesting approach. I like it.
From the article

The attorney general also pointed out that if AI chatbots are deceiving consumers through manipulated “fact-checking,” it may violate the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, which aims to prevent companies from using false or deceptive advertising to sell merchandise in the state. Given the substantial revenue these tech giants generate from Missourians, Bailey asserted that their activities fall within his authority to protect consumers from fraud and false advertising.

breitbart.com/tech/2025/07/11/…

Its strange, i listen to a #song that has lyrics by a #rap artist and it says "i hear voices" yet in reality i enjoy this fucking song and my neighbours who must be deluded as fuck use this as ammunition against me for things that i dont experience personally. I dont hear fucking voices other than my own #dialogues meaning my own fucking voice and memories of other #people in my life #speaking. People are fucking stupid!
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Former PM Ehud #Olmert 👇🏼

It is a #ConcentrationCamp. I am sorry.


[...]

We make a discount to ourselves saying ‘they are antisemites’. I don’t think that they are only antisemites, I think many of them are anti-Israel because of what they watch on television, what they watch on social networks.
This is a painful but normal reaction of people who say ‘hey, you guys have crossed every possible line’.


theguardian.com/world/2025/jul… #Israel #Gaza #IsraelHamasWar #HumanitarianCity #Hamas

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The situation has become so bad that the Environment Secretary has warned that if nothing is done we could run out of clean drinking water within a decade. This is, frankly, embarrassing. We’re supposed to be a developed country and we have abundant rainfall, and yet our state is so dysfunctional that we soon might not have enough drinking water.

While the government has approved the building of two new reservoirs, expected to be complete by 2036 and 2040, and plans to build another seven by 2050, this is not fast enough. And so water companies are considering rationing supply through surge pricing, much to the delight of some environmental campaigners.


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Die zufällige Schwankung bei der Zahl der Feiertage, die auf Werktage fallen, dem Schalttag, usw. wird übrigens aus dem BIP einfach rausgerechnet, der Standardisierung wegen. Schon mal was davon gemerkt, am "realen" Wirtschaftswachstum? Didn't think so...
norden.social/@bwaaaaak/114847…

Pearl Harbor (2001)


The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval nurse Evelyn Johnson. But the rivalry between the friends-turned-foes is immediately put on hold when they find themselves at the center of Japan's devastating attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Actors:
- Ben Affleck
- Kate Beckinsale
- Josh Hartnett
- Cuba Gooding Jr.
- Jon Voight
- Tom Sizemore
- Alec Baldwin
- Jennifer Garner
- Jaime King
- Catherine Kellner
- Sara Rue
- Michael Shannon
- Dan Aykroyd

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I just think its so funny how hard online games have tried to "curve toxicity" by limiting player communication or trying to punish players for toxic behavior.

Don't they understand? Calling someone a slur or telling them to go kill themselves is and will always be part of the online experience.

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This to me smacks of "retard"

Retard used to be the medical way to talk about retards, the kind and proper term for talking about the subject.

Then children realized that retard meant retard. Retard became a "slur" because children didn't mean it in the kind medical use way, they meant that a fucker was retarded.

So we went with "Special". Kind word for the unfortunate simpleton. Once again kids found out that it means retard. Now Special is a "slur".

It doesn't matter what word is used for retard, it will always be used to laugh at people being retarded.

Take out the hook and they'll find a new way to tell each other to hang themselves. Sanitize it completely and even the nicest of words will be the ones used to tell each other to kill themselves.

Shit talk is eternal.

[ Gavin Newsom’s Press Office Calls Stephen Miller A 'Fascist Cuck' Amid Rumors About His Wife And Elon Musk ]
huffpost.com/entry/newsom-step…
Good! More people need to treat that Nazi fuck like the fascist cuck that he is. #USpol #StephenMiller

Gaza officials say children killed in strike as Israeli military admits 'error'
bbc.com/news/articles/c0rvxjnv…

Right, "error". They sure make a lot of "errors", for such a "great" army.

#Palestine #Gaza #Israel
@palestine

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I found on my Linux or Android systems, magnitudes more power can be saved by minimizing I/O consumption, like "data saver." This brings down by magnitudes those CPU wakeup interrupts. I also found increasing the time between flushing the write data to storage helps too. A quiet I/O bus is a power saving I/O bus. Displaying seconds uses orders of magnitude less power than wifi or cell phone modem wakeups.

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subtoot, sa, genocide

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Durham Miners Gala: Applause and abuse
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"The event showed working class solidarity—but also the rising tensions in a Reform-supporting County ~ Tom Brown ~ It was an early start for Durham Miners’ Gala, these islands’ largest gathering of the working class. The event had well over 100 thousand participants. I marched with Teesside Radical Bookfair collective and we joined the Palestine
The post Durham Miners Gala:

Watch Queen’s Brilliant Live Aid Performance: It Happened 40 Years Ago Today (July 13, 1985)

openculture.com/2025/07/watch-…

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I think it was all the do gooder Whites who adopted communism which were massively in the way of the Whites who knew what was going on 😏 had most White Americans felt this way, the world would be a very different place right now and wouldn't have had the world wars, Korea, nam, middle east bullshit. Wouldn't have open borders, faggots, forced nigger integration. But because of bleeding heart do gooder Whites, their AIDS has allowed the infection to take hold

Fun fact: a screenshot of Super #Mario Bros (256×224×6bpp=43008 bytes) is larger than the game itself (40960 bytes).

This is definitely not true of later NES titles, the largest of which (Kirby's Adventure) is a staggering 1048576 bytes.

Nor is it true of the first SNES Mario game, Super Mario World, whose screenshots are only slightly larger at 256×224×8bpp=57344 bytes but the game itself is 524288 bytes.

#retrogaming #retrocomputing

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