• rando895
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    23 days ago

    Its so evil I want to refuse to believe it exists. Surely there’s a different reason it’s adorned with toys? Would it be less evil if it were to entice children to run towards the bulldozer?

    • Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      23 days ago

      This isn’t an attempt at debunking, but there could be other reasons for this. These weapons have been nicknamed “teddy bears” for whatever reason and the toys could be gifts sent to the unit or the individuals operating the vehicles. A bunch of the toys seem to be teddy bears holding hearts, which are less common for children in households and more common for care packages sent to soldiers (also hospital paitents). The motivation behind adorning the vehicles with these could be affection for those who sent the gifts, some kind of joke, or as a decoration meant to humiliate their victims.

      The explaination given by OP is the only one I could find attatched to other uploads of this image. Given what we gave seen the IDF do in Gaza it is not below them to decorate their weapons with the belongings of the children they have murdered, orphaned, rendered homeless and/or traumatized. Either explaination of this photo suggests something perverse is going on here.