The sad, mental gymnastics required to be an #Israeli occupying force http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/08/nabi-salah-idf-soldier-demonstrations-women-children.html# … via @AlMonitor
@havivrettiggur @almonitor and you wonder why so much of the world views the #israeli army as a brutal occupying army without morality
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@antloewenstein@AlMonitor it doesn't change broader moral calculus either way to simply point out that their experience is more complicated -
@havivrettiggur@almonitor it may be complicated but an army of occupation, from israel to france to US, always descends into barbarity -
@antloewenstein@AlMonitor you also won't read in press that Israel is profoundly aware of that, even if it doesn't know how to fix it -
@havivrettiggur what an apologia you've just given. The logic of occupation is simple, more brutality to persist.@antloewenstein@AlMonitor -
This was evident in Algeria, Australia, Iraq and so on.
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@havivrettiggur still want to peddle the toxic oxymoron of IDF being the most moral in the world@antloewenstein@AlMonitor -
@MuhammadAArshad Didn't catch where I said that, but if you're just eager to get angry, happy to be your fall guy
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@havivrettiggur u are right, u didn't. My apology. The issue for#Israel is that on a moral as well as strategic plane, occupation is bad. - 3 more replies
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@antloewenstein@AlMonitor you don't read about the nightly ops against Hamas fighters that make up bulk of these soldiers' experiencesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@antloewenstein@AlMonitor I'm not commenting on occupation, just saying these soldiers generally know there are real killers on other sideThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@antloewenstein@AlMonitor I don't follow. The strange, hard cases where minors are involved are rare in soldiers' experiences in West BankThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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