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Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism. Existence is resistance for Palestinians.

Please refer to Israel as Occupied Palestine, or occupied territories. The IDF is a fascist and ethnonationalist occupying force. Israelis are settlers. We understand however that the imperial narrative (which tries to legitimise Israel) is internalised in the imperial core and slip-ups are naturally expected.

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‘Spectacular’ rise in addiction among settlers during Gaza war: Study (www.presstv.ir)

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A recent study finds drug addiction is on a “spectacular” rise in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian land since the regime began its onslaught in Gaza last year in October.

According to the study, which the Israel Center on Addiction conducted in November and December on a representative sample of 1,000 Israelis one in four Israelis have increased their addictive substance use since the war began on October 7.

The study highlighted that in 2022, before Israel’s devastating war on Gaza began, one in seven Israelis struggled with drug addiction.

It added that there is a link between indirect exposure to the October 7 events and an increase in addictive substance consumption of about 25 percent.

“The closer individuals were to the trauma on October 7, the higher the risk” of addictive behaviors, it found.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The yanks had well-documented problems with substance abuse related to their war against Vietnam, probably also from other atrocities. The Nazis were infamous for doing Pervitin, although I don't know where the historical truth stops and the urban legends begin with that one.

Atrocity-related substance abuse is a real thing.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

reminds one a little bit of "Havana Syndrome": CIA ghouls drinking heavily (or other self-destructive behaviors) to silence their guilt

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Same with the widespread use of methamphetamine among the armed forces of the third Reich. One part was about keeping them awake and altert over long stretches of time, another was about smothering their humanity so they could do all that mass murdering without much fuss. The side effects were brutal of course, but as Parenti once so aptly wrote: Fascist governments treat their soldiers like bullets, they don't care about lasting effects on them. The soldiers get used and then thrown away.