All the gorgeous teenagers have seen the girl with the legs

All the teenagers around me have seen the documentary about the Supernova music festival, which was attacked by Hamas terrorists on October 7, 2023, in a coordinated attack in the Gaza Strip. The documentary is the account of the survivors (young and beautiful, like them, eager to party), illustrated with cell phone images of victims and executioners. A executioner laughing as he shoots a pleading boy. A girl hiding in a dumpster asking her mother for forgiveness for making her suffer like that. They all seem "secular."

"Mom, everyone has seen the video of the girl with the X-shaped legs," one of these teenagers told her mother. Her mother, who watched the film with her, shuddered in horror. The "girl with the legs" is a girl who dances, happy and beautiful, at the festival. She is not killed; for now, she is kidnapped. We see her in a truck, in her underwear, with these gangly, cotton-like legs, bent below the knee in a terrible way that makes you understand that they've broken her and that they're taking her away and will rape her. In the same documentary, a survivor says: "I ran because I'd rather be killed running than raped." Another one cries as they take her away, like a scared little animal.

You can talk to these teenagers and explain that Israel starves Palestinians in Gaza, that they massacred a very recognizable medical team not long ago. It doesn't matter. The banal way these animals kill and rape, their joy, filled with bovid laughter, while torturing, has led most teenagers to take sides. Not for Israel, not for Palestine. For non-religion and non-violence. They deeply hate anything that represents religious fanaticism and, by extension, any external sign of religion, especially if it affects women. I have no solution, no advice, not even any prognosis. I note that they will vote in the upcoming elections. I note, and that's enough, that they (and they) don't tolerate any external religious symbol if, as is often the case, it only obscures women.