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Subject: Israel Defense Forces: Revenge Killings
Left Flank     6/4/2005 12:28:27 AM
What do you make of the news from current and former Israeli military who admit that they have participated in revenge killing, targeting any number of Palestinians in order to equal the score? If this is investigated (we'll see about that) and it turns out to be true, this could be a monumental case against Israel. How will Israel react to the news? I'm sure its PR machine must be in overdrive concocting ways to minimize this highly damaging situation.
 
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jastayme3    RE: So what?   7/9/2005 3:13:51 PM
One time the Special Night Squads trashed an Arab villiage in revenge for helping bandits they believed to be sheltering there. Wingate apparently felt guilty for that and made his lads spend several hours listening to a lecture on proper behavior toward civilians. Perhaps overlenient but it was something. The Irguns and Sterns as all know, commited a massacare during the '48. They were disavowed by the rest. The IDF didn't do as much of that because they mostly fought rommel-patton type wars(though border fighting always continued). On the whole the Israelis have behaved less badly then most but they are not unstained. Immigrant wars are always nasty, more so then mere power struggles. Nontheless the Israeli's have a pretty good(unbad might be a better term) record)given the situation. However they are not perfect.
 
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jastayme3    RE:Israel Defense Forces: Revenge Killings   7/9/2005 3:17:18 PM
Probably the fence will work best
 
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sentinel28a    RE:Israel Defense Forces: Revenge Killings   7/10/2005 6:25:06 PM
Hell, no one is stainless. As our pro-CCP posters take particular glee in pointing out, the US had its share of massacres on the frontier in the 1800s, and No Gun Ri and My Lai in the 20th Century. The difference between the US Army and the IDF, and the PLA and Syria, is that the occasional terrible mistakes committed by the US Army and the IDF were not state policy.
 
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jastayme3    RE:Israel Defense Forces: Revenge Killings   7/11/2005 1:58:11 PM
no one is stainless. As our pro-CCP posters take particular glee in pointing out, the US had its share of massacres on the frontier in the 1800s, and No Gun Ri and My Lai in the 20th Century. The difference between the US Army and the IDF, and the PLA and Syria, is that the occasional terrible mistakes committed by the US Army and the IDF were not state policy. ------------------------- amen
 
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WinsettZ    RE:Israel Defense Forces: Revenge Killings   7/11/2005 3:18:40 PM
[insert conspiracy theory here] "no one is stainless", eh? Excellent. I must keep that on record... :P
 
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