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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/27/israel-defence-forces-most-moral-soldiers-in-the-world/
The Israel Defense Forces Are the Most Moral Soldiers in the World
(Telegraph-UK) Zoe Strimpel - Slippage into coverage of Israel of slurs like "genocide" and "famine" in much of the mainstream broadcast media are not remotely accurate descriptions for what is going on in Gaza. Israel, unlike Hamas, does not conduct warfare with freewheeling sadism. There is a tendency to always assume the worst of the IDF. A version of the ancient anti-Semitic trope of Jews drinking the blood of the innocents appears to have structured many people's views of Israel's war in Gaza and, indeed, long before. The urge to portray the IDF as an immoral army is almost a religion in itself. But it's wrong. In fact, the IDF has a strong claim to being the most moral army in the world. The IDF's morality is seen in its actions. It is currently trying to dismantle probably the most extensive, cunning terrorist infrastructure ever known, one that is highly likely to have been built with the help of hundreds of millions of Western taxpayer money, UN and other "aid" funds. Israel uses a great deal of precision technology to limit the bloodshed. But it's difficult. Hamas' whole strategy revolves around using civilian shields. Yet, journalists and Twitter armies lap up the idea that Israel is going after "women and children." Despite this near-impossible battlefield, the IDF seems to have managed to keep its ratio of civilians to combatants killed lower than almost any other army ever has. In this war, Israel has sacrificed some of its objectives in order to limit civilian deaths. The IDF operates in a manner light years away from that of all the terror groups and militias that hate Israel, currently being cheered on college campuses.