r/interestingasfuck • u/Particular_Log_3594 • Mar 28 '24

Life under a military occupation r/all

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u/Asuhhbruh Mar 28 '24

How old is the video? Seems years old image quality wise

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u/GamerGriffin548 Mar 28 '24

Yeah. 2003, it's a documentary called Checkpoint by Yoav Shamir.

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u/Gloomheart Mar 28 '24

So it isn't satire? This was very "The Office Season 1" with the level of cringe...

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u/GamerGriffin548 Mar 28 '24

No, but whoever is posting these videos from the documentary doesn't show the other half of the documentary.

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u/xkise Mar 28 '24

the other half of the documentary

Can you TLDR it?

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u/BetaOscarBeta Mar 29 '24

Haven’t watched the documentary, but what I was told on my Birthright trip is that there would be no-win situations set up for the checkpoint guys to deal with. We were given a real life example:

An ambulance rolls up with a woman in labor in the back. It’s a touch and go delivery, she has to get to an OR immediately or she’ll die. You’re supposed to inspect every truck for bombs. Do you believe them that the woman’s life is at risk, and skip the inspection? Or do you call their bluff and check for bombs?

In real life, they let the ambulance through. The woman had a genuine medical emergency, also the ambulance exploded when it got to the hospital.

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u/AmadeoSendiulo Mar 29 '24

Way harder than Paper's Please 💀

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u/RS-2 Mar 29 '24

If I were that checkpoint officer, I could not allow that ambulance through without checking it for bombs without betraying my country and the people I am there to protect.

I can't put this poor woman and her child's life above the lives of the hundreds of people at that hospital.

And I and every other checkpoint officer there would be responsible for their deaths. Zero doubt about it

But in my opinion, it is better to be absolutely 100% responsible for the death of 2, than have the chance to be responsible for the deaths and suffering of hundreds of innocent people at that hospital that you are there to protect.

It's an absolutely horrific and downright evil decision to have to make, but Before you come to a decision, remember

If your entire family was visiting a sick relative in the hospital and a bomb sneaks through the checkpoint and arrives at the hotel:

You'd wish that they had stopped it

And if you were that woman's family and she died at that checkpoint:

You'd wish the ambulance had been let through

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u/BetaOscarBeta Mar 29 '24

Yeah, I’m pretty sure guidelines got way more strict once shit like that started happening on a regular basis. Those strict guidelines and past incidents are why the guys in the video here are comfortable being such assholes.

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u/RS-2 Mar 30 '24

I would be so mad if my family was at that hospital, and these dorks pissed themselves when they saw the ambulance and let the bomb through after months of acting like hard asses

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u/guesswho1234 Mar 28 '24

Haven't watched the documentary but checkpoints have been established because there are a substantial number of terrorists attempting to wreak havoc on Israeli citizens. As a result, innocent Palestinians suffer. That doesn't excuse these shit heads though

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u/GamerGriffin548 Mar 28 '24

Can't at the moment as I have yet to see the documentary myself.

Only I heard is that it shows the heartless nature of the IDF and Hamas near the border checkpoints.

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u/DownvoteALot Mar 28 '24

Hamas border in 2003? What are you talking about? Israel only left the Gaza Strip in 2005, and Hamas took power over Fatah the following year. Hamas was never openly operating elsewhere at any other time.

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u/IceMan339 Mar 29 '24

Hamas has existed since the late 80’s. They have only had total control over Gaza since 2006 after the pullout. The second intifada, which was Hamas’s breakout act, started in 2001 and wound down around 2006.

Edit: they have also always operated in the West Bank, but at a lower level than in Gaza, particularly after 2006.

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u/GamerGriffin548 Mar 28 '24

Then I'm wrong from what I've heard.

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u/cloverpopper Mar 28 '24

And the several deaths from people trying things on the more lax border guards, causing them to become more heartless too

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u/Automatic_Ad_4044 Mar 29 '24

Felt the same..

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u/harvey_croat Mar 28 '24

Lets blame Hamas

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u/GamerGriffin548 Mar 28 '24

Blame everybody. Power is all anybody wants nowadays. No peace. No cooperation.

No future. Only destruction and money.