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A.P.photo/ Nasser Shiyoukhi -- during Jerusalem riots
Before the Goldstone report, the IDF began investigating its troops’ conduct in Gaza. It provided a venue for Arab organizations to submit complaints. 100 complaints received. Arab witnesses were interviewed. 45 complaints have been investigated.
Investigators found no problem with the general offensive but some individual mistakes. Some of those mistakes got Israeli troops killed. No Israeli troops deliberately killed an innocent civilian (www.imra.org.il, 11/13).
In recent years, Israeli officers who break the IDF rules of engagement, or make mistakes in judgment lose their commands. That policy was not applied to Yitzchak Rabin in the 1948 war nor to Ehud Barak and other blundering generals in the first Lebanon war. Incompetent leftist officers, some of whom were groomed by the Labor Party for political leadership, were shielded.
For an insight into IDF combat ethics, click here
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Shulman,
Since you have not read the Goldstone Report, there is no way you would objectively be able to test whether this is yet another IDF whitewash, which it of course is.
Nothing less than a fully independent investigation with credible outside observers will satisfy Israel's obligations to follow international and humanitarian law.
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