The army is acting with total impunity. Israel needs the soldiers to commit atrocities to achieve its political goals (the ethnic cleansing of Gaza), but to do that they need to assure their soldiers that there will be no consequences. So no matter what the soldiers do, their spokespeople will go on TV and say with a 100% straight face that they have done no wrong. There must never be a precedent for accountability.

But because there is total impunity, the army is getting increasingly unhinged and they do absurd shit like looting underwear and posting it to tiktok. I think even an otherwise normal person can turn into a monster if they know there will be no consequences whatsoever for their actions. 19-year-old Israeli Lieutenant Commanders are being given an endless supply of weapons and a free pass to live out their most depraved violent fantasies on a civilian population, because Israel has to defend them if questioned or the entire house of cards will fall apart.

It’s fascism in its purest form. Powerful institutions protecting supremacy of the oppressors.