After 748 days of committing war crimes in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria, Joshua Boon, who was born in Iowa, United States, committed suicide. He chose to leave home in Idaho to volunteer for the Israel Defense Forces. He is a traitor who enlisted in the Israeli Death Forces instead of the US armed forces.
"Lone Soldier" is a sugarcoated term that the media often uses to refer to Jewish Americans "mercenaries" who enlist in the IDF. However, the same media outlets refer to Muslims who join ISIS or fight against US and NATO occupation force in the Middle East as "terrorists." A Muslim volunteer gets automatically 20 years behind bars whereas a Jewish mercenary receives a hero welcome.
Many Americans are unaware of the fact that many Jewish high school students chose to enlist in the Israeli Death Forces (IDF) after graduation instead of enlisting in the US armed forces. Those people have taken part in the Gaza genocide and massacres in Lebanon. Some of them were captured on October 7 while armed and in IDF uniform. In fact, you would be more accurate by calling them as "Israeli POWs" instead. That should be an affront to all veterans and patriotic Americans.
I find it ironic and shameful that US public officials who always defend Israel on X act deaf, blind, and mute when Israel has killed 13 American citizens during the genocide in Gaza and/or when the Israeli pirates kidnapped 497 members of the Global Sumud Flotilla (including 22 American citizens) last October. By doing so, many Americans are left in the dark about the Israeli crimes.
Obviously, that's how politicians in the US score brownie points with the Israeli lobby AIPAC. Putting their personal interests above principle in order to keep those campaign contributions coming.
Meanwhile, according to the Israeli Daily Haaretz, there has been at least 17 suicides reported among the IDF soldiers in 2025 with 21 suicides recorded in 2024, including seven during 2023 after Hamas broke the illegal and inhumane siege on Gaza.
YONAH JEREMY of Jerusalem Post reported on Sep. 14, 2025, that "More than 81,700 soldiers have been wounded in 'ALL' Israel’s wars, including nearly 20,000 in the current war, according to the Israeli War ministry, leading into the Gaza war's two-year anniversary." The report added that the number of wounded soldiers since the beginning of the war has spiked astronomically. Every month, around 1,000 soldiers file new claims regarding their wounds from the war. That is an average of 33 baby killers injured daily in Gaza.
Spread their shame! Let's hope more IDF terrorists follow Joshua Boon's suit!
Mahmoud El-Youseph is a Palestinian freelance writer and retired U.S. Air Force veteran. He writes on
U.S. foreign policy, Middle East affairs, and justice. Email: elyousseph6@yahoo.com
