Emotional Reaction to Gaza Documentary Featuring Israeli Soldiers

So,

a few minutes ago, I got out.

Ooh, I'm not gonna be able to make it through

this.

I went and saw a movie, a documentary.

It starts with the letter N

and rhymes with a place that it's about.

I'm trying really hard to get through this

where the algorithm doesn't pop it.

It was only available in select cities or select times.

You had to have somebody sponsor it.

Um, and I went and saw it tonight. It was the only time it

was showing in Savannah.

And I went by myself. It was a room full of

200 people, mostly older.

Um,

and fantastic documentary. It will be available

on The Guardian

the beginning of next month, and I do recommend you go and see it or

stream it.

But the word...

I'm gonna do sign language

and not very good sign language, but...

Oh, I don't even remember.

Four letters, starts with an N.

I- I've been crying the two blocks from the

theater

just... It was a lot.

It was a lot,

and I just kept sitting there every time.

'Cause again,

I have read more books

on

what occurred

during WWII than most people I know.

And this documentary was interviewing

soldiers

from the blue and white flag place,

and they were talking about things that they had done.

And this four-letter word

that this documentary is based off, is named after,

that term is the term for

civilian casualties that they're willing to accept.

And at times it's been 13 per target, at times it's been

20. These soldiers were saying that they did, they

didn't, they didn't even care at times,

um, that everybody became a target.

And they were talking about

that they would listen in on phones

of not just

the bad H-letter people,

but their family members, their teenage daughters, their

brothers, their sisters, people that had nothing to do with it.

They would listen in, and this one said that he,

this one target,

he attacked, um...

And he could hear only

the mom and children, babies in the background.

He-- They tried to do it at night. Odds are they would be

more likely to be home, so, but the civilian casualty rate went up

much higher at night. But he was saying in this one that he

could hear the mother screaming

after an attack, and it was, um, she was screaming that her daughter

was burning

alive.

And he sat there and listened to her just scream and scream that her daughter was

burning alive.

And

none of them lived. None of them made it.

And then,

like just how cavalierly they talk about how each building has a

serial number

associated with it. Every single building in Gaza had a serial

number.

And it w- he said, "It's just like a video game. It was fun.

We went on, and we looked, and

we would kinda have some safeguards in place to see

if, um,

you know, we would hit somebody,

hit civilians." But

they didn't care.

They were just playing a video game, and they would go outside and smoke.

And they realize now

that they took part in the killing of thousands and thousands.

But they even have to hide their face because if they spoke out, their own

government would shun them. Everybody they know would shun them,

so they don't speak out. And the, this is what gets me, is the things they

were saying,

the way that they would go about w- things, that they

were shooting people waiting

in line for food. If, if they didn't, if they got out of

line even just a little bit, they would shoot 'em,

'cause what does it matter?

That's one less for the food.

So,

and the things that they would say are the exact things

that

each word people would say was done to them, was

said to them, how cavalierly death came to people.

And I don't know what we're gonna do.

But y'all, this has to stop.

This, this

documentary ended

with this dad looking for his children in the rubble.

And all you see is literally

one floor of a building pancaked down to another floor of the building,

and you see all

these arms and legs of these kids just sticking out.

How is this okay?

How is it okay that we live in a world that nobody's talking about

this?

And I can't, I can't not talk, so here I am,

talking.

And I don't even think anybody's listening, 'cause I don't even think the

great lord of TikTok lets it out.

But I'm just gonna keep talking and posting 'cause I don't know what else

to do.

We gotta do better.