Whenever there is such an imbalance of power, morality flies out the door.
The recent campaign in Gaza was ample proof of this.
Good on the Israeli soldiers who stand up and speak out, tell what actually happened.
Because even if the Red Cross, journalists, politicians, civilians, film and photographs prove otherwise, it apparently only becomes true when the Israeli soldiers themselves say so.
The lives of Palestinians, let's say, is something very, very less important than the lives of our soldiers.

and when you read what some Israeli soldiers put on their t-shirts, it goes beyond shock...
Dead babies, mothers weeping on their children's graves, a gun aimed at a child and bombed-out mosques - these are a few examples of the images Israel Defense Forces soldiers design these days to print on shirts they order to mark the end of training, or of field duty. The slogans accompanying the drawings are not exactly anemic either: A T-shirt for infantry snipers bears the inscription "Better use Durex," next to a picture of a dead Palestinian baby, with his weeping mother and a teddy bear beside him. A sharpshooter's T-shirt from the Givati Brigade's Shaked battalion shows a pregnant Palestinian woman with a bull's-eye superimposed on her belly, with the slogan, in English, "1 shot, 2 kills." A "graduation" shirt for those who have completed another snipers course depicts a Palestinian baby, who grows into a combative boy and then an armed adult, with the inscription, "No matter how it begins, we'll put an end to it."
There are also plenty of shirts with blatant sexual messages. For example, the Lavi battalion produced a shirt featuring a drawing of a soldier next to a young woman with bruises, and the slogan, "Bet you got raped!" A few of the images underscore actions whose existence the army officially denies - such as "confirming the kill" (shooting a bullet into an enemy victim's head from close range, to ensure he is dead), or harming religious sites, or female or child non-combatants.
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That they consider this okay, make excuses for it, actually have these things printed and wear them, shows how far gone they are down the road of abandoning all concept of justice, equality and human rights.
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