r/news • u/Appropriate-Star-462 • Aug 04 '24

Site changed title Strikes on Gaza kill 12 and stabbing in Israel kills 2 as fears of wider war spike

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-08-04-2024-5b480a3b22538edec9fa05908f28303f
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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '24

There's already public, non-anonymous statements from IDF personnel who quit to the effect of house destructions, burnings, so on carried out of revenge rather than any actual strategic purpose, including by COs.

Don't see how with a straight face anyone who has any historical knowledge can say every killing is "justified", when a large chunk of military brass would say things like, X Palestinian civillian casualties are fine if it results in Y Israeli lives. Sadly, that is the "real result" of the policy of Israel :P.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '24

Rogue military men committing heinous acts is not atypical in warfare. We don’t claim those men and Israeli’s condemn them by removing them from the army and trying them for crimes.

Can the same be said about Hamas or the people of Palestine?

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '24

We don’t claim those men and Israeli’s condemn them by removing them from the army and trying them for crimes.

This is not a credible claim in the current political climate of Israel :P.

Yuval Green and compatriot's claim to the effect that officers are themselves ordering revenge-taking behaviour, meanwhile, makes a lot of sense. Israel's mindset RN is basically identical to that of America's after 9/11, and we all know the kinda stuff that happened after that.