>>160874Well, children and teenagers are obviously innocent. While the young have a profound capacity for cruelty, this is a consequence of biological factors and poor pedagogy. In a fascist, ethnic supremacist regime like Israel, the children might be indoctrinated to believe the state ideology but this is largely a consequence of their desire for positive feedback (praise, treats, etc) and a lack of outside perspective. It also becomes very hard to break that kind of early indoctrination later in life - just look at the "deconstruction" communities for major religions. I think indoctrinating children into cruel, hateful ideologies is in and of itself a despicable crime.
When it comes to workers, my immediate thought is "no." However, I think a few factors are important:
First, while many Israelis are immigrants from other countries, plenty were born in Israel and grew up learning the state ideology as truth. While there was about one generation in Nazi Germany that would have been raised under the Nazi ideology, they also lived (if they were lucky) through the collapse of Nazi Germany and through this had an opportunity to break from that ideology. Israel, in contrast, was formally recognized in 1948 after many years of Zionist migration to the region. This means there are plenty of Israelis who have not only spent their entire life in Israel, but were raised by parents and grandparents who have spent their entire life in the region Israel now occupies.
Second, there is a mandatory military service. I believe this serves as both a way to desensitize the average citizen to war AND to bloody their hands, making them directly complicit in the state of Israel's war crimes. There is now a psychological drive to justify the state of Israel as a way to justify their service - not necessarily to others, but to themselves. I also think that if they end their service after their draft ends, they will feel inclined to defend or at least look away from those who remain both out of a sense of esprit de corps but also because if there are active-duty soldiers they do not have to worry as much about ever being called back up to service.
Third, I have heard that Israel has a very high degree of income inequality, however I do not know how the data looks. I am not sure if that factors in all the residents (i.e., including oppressed minorities) and citizens, or if it includes only the ethnic majority. Still, I think these days the capitalist system has been tuned to keep people in first world nations at just the level of economic instability and hardship that they'll accept, while also giving them examples of what happens if they stumble and stokes the flames of hopes with what COULD happen if they only tightened their bootstraps just a little more with images of flashy wealth. Add in an overt, blatant ethnically supremacist ideology and you have reasons why someone might not want to rock the boat.
Even taking these factors into account, I still think "no." I feel like there's an obligation to at least passively resist a genocide. I also feel like saying that makes me a hypocrite as my tax dollars go to military aid to Israel and I haven't audited the distributors or manufacturers of every product I consume but it's not like the truth changes based on my feelings or how aligned my actions are to it. Gravity still exists, even if I think I can fly and step off a roof.