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Originally Posted by gondath
I don't see the actions of those soldiers being healthy by any definition. It promotes the idea that the Palestinians are less than human. I wonder how the soldiers would feel about Israeli bodies being played with like that. I don't see how they can feel any actions taken by the bombers or their allies justifies toying with body parts. In any event, I doubt the United States will condemn or even address the issue. This government doesn't like to criticize Israel for anything, no matter how extreme the situation. I'm glad at least one officer took a stand and told his platoon what he thought of their behavior.
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"Morality, purity of arms and the spirit of the Israeli army are what give us our legitimacy in our own eyes and in the eyes of all of Israeli society," the army said in a statement.
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The survivors of the holocaust who made their way to Palestine after WWII
understood that acting in ways that were similar to those of their Nazi SS
executioners would undermine their own humanity and make them indistinguishable from the monsters who nearly exterminated all of them.
It is a cause for great concern that too many people allow themselves to be
so blinded by their own righteous anger, that they forget to fully appreciate
and maintain their own legitimacy by always thinking and behaving humanely.