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Actually there is a duality in the way IDF treat civilians. In some aspects soldiers are too loose in making damage or shooting people (last war in Gaza and many cases in West Bank). But in some other aspects IDF is more careful than perhaps any other military in the world in its civilians warning strategies especially in previous operations in Gaza before the brakes lost in oct7. But even during the last war the killed ratio are objectively far better (1.5:1-2:1 vs 7:1) than Europeen and US coalition against ISIS or Iraq and Afganistan war. Of course nothing is "good" or justified but the contrast is still important. This duality can be very confusing and reflect the complexity and diversity inside IDF and in a deeper sense the complexity of Israeli society. Elor Azaria case in 2016 is a hot litmus test to this polarity.

@Raze Yeah Troops are the most prone to such behaviours. It is harder to be conscious and sensitive person and at the same time brave enough to risk your life in such areas. Although all of this there is still a significant percentage of good people among the combatants.

This is not so clear and dichotomic. In some aspects we moved away from sanity in the last 20 years. The best indication for this is the continuous rise in anxiety and depression.

If he attacks christmas market it is less likely the motives are islamophobic. More likely he is anti West, anti Christianity or anti anything that isn't Islam.

@Leo Gura I will feel treatened and scared if the checkpoint which is found 5 km from my home won't be secured enough or diminished I say to you honestly. This isn't a justice issue even. In terms of justice I am for Two State solution. I live right now near the city Modiin (not WB but near the 67' border).

There is no a single day when I open the radio and not hear "Oct7th" in the first 5 minutes. And I am not exaggarating. I mean literally. The conversation is almost only on that. Believe what you want though. Open Ynet or twitter and translate the pages and twitts of Israelis and you will see the same.

Things that they are connecting automatically in their brain to securing their lives like tight checkpoints around West Bank. I think this is still very different than an active support for isolated settlements and expansion of them or desire or motivation to take more land because there the minority is found.

If people from Italy would invade France and make them the worst trauma for decades, would you expect French people to care about Italians in the following couple of years? This is utterly unrealistic. And not only that, but Italian extremists are consistently traumatizing French people for 30 years in terror operations if we continue the analogy. Your expectations from people are irrational.

This does not change the fact that the majority of Israelis do not hold this ideology, nor believe in it, nor desire to have land in Gaza or the West Bank.

I assume you mean here to the west bank settlements expansion, because if the war ends IDF is supposed to be completely out of Gaza according to the deal and hamas demands. You don't need to brainwash anybody, you only need an exploding bus in Tel Aviv every couple of weeks for years and that will be enough to make your mind associate "Palestinians" with a life threat for you. They are half of the equation and have heavy responsibility to the way Israelis see them.

That is already your interpretation. People are busy with their lives and with other circles of concern that are not associated in their brain with a threat to their lives and aren't less important. Therefore the mind will be biased towards filtering out Palestinians from those circles. It is easy for you to say because you are not living here.

72% want the war to end yesterday.

He wrote like 17 tweets on it, his passion exposes his agenda too.