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7/17/2025, 5:45:49 PM
>>510636498
>>510636498
>Yeah alright, you probably know best.
You know just as well as I do, even better.
it's like breathing for you, the lying...
>>510636498
>Yeah alright, you probably know best.
You know just as well as I do, even better.
it's like breathing for you, the lying...
7/6/2025, 6:42:33 PM
Uri, 22, Yahalom combat engineering unit
"At some point, I just stopped believing in what we're doing. During the first year, I was all in – totally committed to every mission. I really believed we were part of something historic, that we were protecting Israeli civilians, that we were helping to rescue the hostages.
"But little by little, I started to doubt it. After you hear about another hostage killed because of an airstrike, after you attend yet another funeral for a friend – it just starts to fade.
"I can't go on another mission. I can't go back to the same areas we've already been through a million times, investigate another tunnel shaft, enter another building that might be booby-trapped. And for what? Anyone with half a brain can see this war is continuing for political reasons. There's no reason to keep going. We're not achieving anything – we're just risking our lives over and over again.
"Even the commanders don't know how to explain it anymore, how to convince us to keep at it. Except for the religious guys, no one understands what we're doing. No one believes we're helping to bring the hostages home. If anything, we're putting them in more danger.
"Every time I got close to a tunnel shaft, that thought would hit me. What if the intel is wrong? What if there are hostages down there? What if the terrorists hear us and kill them? And if that happens – how could I live with myself? How could I go on?
"The officers will call it a mistake and say that's just war – and I'll have to live with the guilt and shame. No one's going to help me. Just like no one's helping my wounded friends. Some of them the commanders didn't even bother to visit. They were just left on their own.
"At some point, I just stopped believing in what we're doing. During the first year, I was all in – totally committed to every mission. I really believed we were part of something historic, that we were protecting Israeli civilians, that we were helping to rescue the hostages.
"But little by little, I started to doubt it. After you hear about another hostage killed because of an airstrike, after you attend yet another funeral for a friend – it just starts to fade.
"I can't go on another mission. I can't go back to the same areas we've already been through a million times, investigate another tunnel shaft, enter another building that might be booby-trapped. And for what? Anyone with half a brain can see this war is continuing for political reasons. There's no reason to keep going. We're not achieving anything – we're just risking our lives over and over again.
"Even the commanders don't know how to explain it anymore, how to convince us to keep at it. Except for the religious guys, no one understands what we're doing. No one believes we're helping to bring the hostages home. If anything, we're putting them in more danger.
"Every time I got close to a tunnel shaft, that thought would hit me. What if the intel is wrong? What if there are hostages down there? What if the terrorists hear us and kill them? And if that happens – how could I live with myself? How could I go on?
"The officers will call it a mistake and say that's just war – and I'll have to live with the guilt and shame. No one's going to help me. Just like no one's helping my wounded friends. Some of them the commanders didn't even bother to visit. They were just left on their own.
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