Retdude

🇵🇸🇮🇱 It says a lot that Israelis thought this drone footage would make them look good. Israeli channels said he "died like a dog", yet almost everyone acknowledged there was the stuff of legend in Sinwar's last stand: at age 61, he continued fighting after being shelled by a tank, managed to lob grenades at incoming IDF soldiers and created a makeshift tourniquet using iron wire from the rubble for his injured arm. For a year, Sinwar has been portrayed by Israel as a rat scurrying through tunnels surrounded by human shields. But in the first and final image of him he is above ground, entirely covered in dust as if being swallowed into the rubble of Gaza, fighting to his last breath. The Israeli response to the footage shows how fundamentally different Jewish culture is as it concerns honour. As you see with IDF soldiers wearing women's clothes and playing with kids' toys in the houses of Gaza, they are strangely blind to the revulsion this kind of glee in humiliating their enemies illicits in people with a sense of honour. The only humiliation they recognise as real is collective dominance -- their own holy books are filled with stories of their own humiliation at the hands of larger empires. The IDF soldiers who r*pe prisoners or video themselves dancing on the rubble of Gaza are not only defended in Israel, they are celebrated. There is no sense of personal humiliation for a person acting from a position of dominance, humiliation is only external. Weininger wrote that what characterises Jewish culture more than anything is a lack of piety. As is reflected in the contrast of the New Testament to the Old, the idea that someone from a position of complete defeat and external humiliation could yet be seen as noble and heroic due to his internal piety and resolve is totally alien to them.