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Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la I took the liberty of translating this Tweet of an Israeli explaining why the country is going down the tubes and he is leaving. A must read for what is going on there: [quote] Yuv 🤷🏾‍♀️ @hyuvii עוד יומיים אני עולה למטוס עוזב את הארץ. זה נורא קשה לגדול במקום, לאהוב אותו, ואז לראות שהוא נורא. שבין כל האנשים הטובים המקום עצמו רקוב לגמרי עד היסוד. לראות את הריקבון הזה באנשים שאתה אוהב. נשברתי. [end quote] 7:47 PM · Nov 29, 2025 · 245.1K Views

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2/7@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Israel #Zionism #hasbara

![For two years I’ve watched my country commit one atrocity after another, and I’ve seen how everyone around me disappoints, stays silent, takes part, buys the lies. They refuse to oppose in any real way. It’s not the right-wing that broke me, not the Bibi supporters or the settler Judeo-Nazis. They’re monsters, but I already knew that.

It’s all the people I thought were on my side who have shown me that actually we live on a completely different planet of values, faith, and perception of reality. The macho-ism, militarism, and Jewish supremacy run so deep. Collective psychosis, it’s impossible to really talk to anyone, we have barriers. In language, in the way people speak, there are obstacles.](https://cdn.theblower.au/media_attachments/files/115/636/442/221/100/822/original/fb81b947db0c1dd6.png)

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3/7@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Israel #Zionism #hasbara

![“What do you propose” is a good example. It’s something people say every time someone tries to offer any alternative to violence. In every situation, scenario, violence is the only solution, the only way. Iran wants nukes? Fine, we have to bomb, no choice. Hamas has hostages? Bomb, no choice. Yemen is shooting at us? Bomb, no choice.

And if you just say “maybe it’s bad,” people ask “what do you propose instead.” That question is amazing. It contains so much. Mainly, it hides agreement. “What do you propose” means “violence is the only solution and for me to abandon it, I need an alternative solution.” And now the burden of proof lies on me, the one opposing violence.](https://cdn.theblower.au/media_attachments/files/115/636/450/448/408/595/original/0a9ebb17d5698e87.png)

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4/7@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Israel #Zionism #hasbara

![Anyone who’s been on that side of the conversation knows the pattern. Everything we say they reply “pfft” or “you’re naïve.” It’s not a dialogue, it’s a test, a critique. We, the ones opposing violence, have to prove ourselves. We can’t have a single flaw; we have to provide a full operational plan and prove every detail and flaw. But them? They don’t have to.

For Israelis, violence doesn’t need proof, explanation, justification, or evidence. It doesn’t matter if it works or not, it’s the foundation. It’s the way. “What do you propose” is also recognition and acceptance of violence as normative, it also shifts the responsibility to the side of non-violence. In a normal world, it would be the opposite.](https://cdn.theblower.au/media_attachments/files/115/636/456/986/214/688/original/8ecb872ee73a3bbf.png)

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5/7@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Israel #Zionism #hasbara

![There isn’t even the ability to recognize that the problem itself is the idea that violence is the only way. Which is, by itself, completely insane. There’s no such thing as living forever by the sword. There isn’t. You don’t live forever by the sword, you die by it. But this framing locks us out of having this conversation under the disguise of “okay, I’m open but what do you propose.”

It sounds so innocent and natural and “reasonable.” But it’s like a trap. It’s a word minefield, fake politeness, a pit that pulls you down and basically neutralizes the conversation. Instead of talking about how to solve a problem, we have violence taken for granted, and we’ll doubt it only if there’s some perfect magical proof beyond all reasonable doubt.

(And while we’re demanding from you a perfect magical solution, we’ll tell you that you’re the one living in La La Land and we’re the “realistic” violent ones “who understand reality.”)](https://cdn.theblower.au/media_attachments/files/115/636/464/177/164/311/original/d5dd1d5b058b24fd.png)

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6/7@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Israel #Zionism #hasbara

![We have a million such verbal barriers. Sentences, words, expressions, ways of talking that shape how we speak about reality and channel us not to listen, to be numb, and to be part of the evil machine we built. And to see that slowly all around you, to see how far you are from everyone, unable to talk at all.

And every conversation is full of them. It’s not just one barrier once in a while, no. They get unleashed one by one. I can start analyzing people’s tweets here and show you how one tweet contains like 4-5 such barriers that shut down the brain. You respond to one? They reply with 5 new ones. You can’t keep up, just dismantling one requires a whole focused conversation.](https://cdn.theblower.au/media_attachments/files/115/636/471/336/864/201/original/5b822020165c805b.png)

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7/7@palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@fedibird.com #CrimesAgainstHumanity #Israel #Zionism #hasbara

![I can’t talk to you. You’re not capable of listening. The only ones who listen are those who have already gotten out of the pit, either by chance access to knowledge and openness of mind, or literally people who left the country. When I meet people who left, you immediately see how leaving our toxic space allowed them to be human again. It’s obvious in their speech itself.

There are still lots of family, friends, and people I love here. But it’s become impossible to talk. I hope it will be easier there, even though I don’t have many illusions. I don’t know how I’ll ever lower the mark of Cain of being Israeli at all. I’m ashamed of us, all of us.

But at least maybe it will be a bit easier to breathe. And maybe also to truly fight effectively. We’ll see. That’s my late-night rambling because I’m not really sleeping and apparently need to vent.](https://cdn.theblower.au/media_attachments/files/115/636/477/680/442/929/original/cafa15989459a40d.png)

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