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Title: | Not the way Israeli soldiers are educated? | |||
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| Name: | Ben Alofs | | |||
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| City: | Bangor | State: | North Wales, UK | | |
| The chief military rabbi general Brigadier General Avi Ronzki gave soldiers a pamphlet urging them not to show mercy. "When you show mercy to a cruel enemy you are being cruel to pure and honest soldiers. These are not games at the amusement park where sportmanship teaches ones to make concessions. This is a war on murderers." Far right groups are/have been issuing pamphlets on military bases that virtually call on soldiers to act outside international law. One urged "soldiers to spare your lives and the lives of your friends and not show concern for a population that surrounds us and harms us..." "Kill the ones who comes to kill you. As for the population, it is not innocent." Israel policy makers consider the population of Gaza and Hamas as one and the same. Lawyers have been working to justify directing artillery fire and airplane strikes on civilian neighbourhoods. It all indicates a deepening lack of compassion and disregard for the lives of Palestinian civilians. |
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