Originally posted by: 5150Joker
Originally posted by: RichardE
Originally posted by: 5150Joker
Originally posted by: ThePresence
What's the point? That there are bad apples? Of course there are. It still doesn't make it official policy, and it isn't.Originally posted by: TheSnowman
It isn't just in Hebron and that solder is far from alone in his attitude. You can find testimonials from many other solders who did far worse things and now regret there actions:Originally posted by: linkgoron
Well, that appears real (after hearing what they're saying, and hearing the kids talk).
I wouldn't say that it shows the Israel in any light whatsoever. Hevron is probably home to the most radical Israelis. They attack Israeli soldiers too...
Still, those kids should've gotten a good knee in the head from those peace guys... That soldier (it seems) is just one of those magavnicks or something, that pretty much had nowhere to go in the military and was just thrown there (well, it seems from the fact that he speaks half-assed English, and hearing his voice). While the soldier should be dealt with, talking to the kids parents won't help, because they've obviously been sent by their parents.
http://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/
Yeah it just makes it unofficial policy. Rachel Corey (i think that was her name) was also bulldozed over by an Israeli soldier about a year or so back.
So US unofficial policy is to kill civilians?
How about we show you an example of official policy...
The leader of Hez saying they are targetting Israel civilians, that is an official policy.
If The leader never said that, and all of a sudden a Hez missiles killed Israel civilians, it would not be policy, but a mistake. When the leader announces it, it becomes policy.
US policy has nothing to do with Israeli policy. The US does not have a desire to uproot people and erect settlements that require constant policing and warfare. Thus it's asinine to even suggest a link between Israeli and US war policy unless you're saying that third party observers/workers are hostiles and should be run over via bull dozers and/or stoned by kids? Seems to me Israeli apologists will find any excuse to dismiss Israel's blatant disregard for human life. As for Hezbollah, they've suffered >1:10 civilian deaths compared to Israel so the onus still lies with Israel; Hezbollah doesn't have 1/100th of the sophisticated weaponry Israel does so to make it fair lets reverse the roles and give the Israelis WWII era rockets for defense and hand Hezbollah advanced fighters with guided munitions.
You stated that some soldier making actions make it an unoffical policy. So by that definition, the US would have an unofficial policy of killing cilians.
For disregard of life, perhaps we should look at Iraq civilian cassualties and Lebannon, Or perhaps any other large scale conflict vs Lebannon.