Let’s face it, Israel is not a democracy, it is not a free country, it is not an advocate of peace. Israel is a militant state overrun by religious extremists who want the total destruction of the Palestinian people and eventually the entire planet. Israel is a rogue state, they do not answer to anyone, not Human Rights groups or the UN, they only talk to the US before going to war. They don’t want this because of Judaism but they have twisted the religion, taking many of verses from the Torah out of context to achieve their goals, just like any other religious extremist would. This is also more or less the opinion of some Jewish groups
such as Rabbis for Human Rights.
Much like Saudi Arabia and other similar countries the Israeli population is brainwashed and controlled through state controlled media, they do not get opinions besides what is fed to them, when they hear about foreign media reporting facts they are told the foreign media is against them and wants to destroy Israel, when human rights organizations show the hypocrisy and war crimes their military commits which their politicians advocate they are told that human rights organizations do not have Israels interests at heart and therefore cannot be trusted.
Due to this sustained brainwashing Israels populace is in complete support of their government, they don’t understand nor are they able to comprehend their state commits crimes and even if it is shown unambiguously that their state does commit war crimes they rationalize it away. They believe they are in their states protection and in order to maintain this protection against the rest of the world, seemingly hell bent on their destruction, they must continue to give their state unwavering support.
The recent massacre in Gaza seems to have been taken out of an extremist interpretation of the Torah, it’s literally a text book case of religious extremism,
1 Samuel said to Saul, “I am the one the LORD sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the LORD. 2 This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy [a] everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’ “
1 Samuel 15
It seems to be the only logical reason why the IDF would target a zoo.
A secular terrorist organization or state would not target a tactically irrelevant position, it makes no sense, it backfires badly in terms of propaganda as dead animals always make people sympathetic and in terms of striking fear and terror into Gaza it makes little to no sense as targeting civilians would be more efficient. Why would IDF soldiers go through a zoo and kill a bunch of animals in cold blood? The only way we can find reasoning for this is by looking at the religious material these ‘people’ distort and use to justify their opinions.
People condemn the Palestinians for voting in Hamas, but by that same line of thinking we must condemn the Israelis for voting for extremists, perhaps even more so considering the actions of the Israelis were not the result of desperation unlike the Palestinians who for years had to tolerate Israeli brutality. It is clear extremists are using the Torah and to justify their actions, perhaps not to the Israeli population which they regard as a force that must be kept under control through media manipulation but to themselves so they can maintain a clear conscience.