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 rohangb rated 26 months ago - From the page: "At least two Israeli fighter pilots have deliberately missed civilian targets in Lebanon as disquiet grows in the military about flawed intelligence, The Observer has learnt. Sources say the pilots were worried that targets had been wrongly identified as Hizbollah facilities.&qu...
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- trexalot rated 26 months ago
- From the page: "As international outrage over civilian deaths grows, the spotlight is increasingly turning on Israeli air operations. The Observer has learnt that one senior commander who has been involved in the air attacks in Lebanon has already raised concerns that some of the air force's actions might be considered 'war crimes'."
Not only are these people listening to their conscience (hooray for humanity, which can break through in even the worst of times) but some of these guys are probably covering their ass------IDF personnel are understanding that they could someday be held liable for war crimes.
- advena rated 26 months ago
- Thank God for individuals that listen to their conscience, it gives me hope.
Israeli pilots 'deliberately miss' targets
Fliers admit aborting raids on civilian targets as concern grows over the reliability of intelligence
At least two Israeli fighter pilots have deliberately missed civilian targets in Lebanon as disquiet grows in the military about flawed intelligence, The Observer has learnt. Sources say the pilots were worried that targets had been wrongly identified as Hizbollah facilities."
- Amacord rated 26 months ago
- The bravest soldiers... those who refuse to participate in atrocities. Some Israeli pilots are saying "no!"
Pilots don't pick their targets. They have to rely on the people who give them their orders.
The million dollar question: Who has been sending Israeli pilots after purely civilian targets.
In fairness to the war criminals in Israel, this is the same strategy the US employed in Yugoslavia and Iraq: terrorizing (and killing) civilians and destroying purely civilian infrastructure as a form of "collective punishment." The Nazis got this particular ball rolling in Guernica and the Japanese fascists in China. What disgraceful company to be in.
- SvladJelly rated 26 months ago
- At least two Israeli pilots refuse to accept flawed intelligence assumptions, deliberately missing targets and aborting missions that they believe unduly endanger Lebanese civilians. I fucking love these guys (in a purely heterosexual way, of course.)
- rohangb rated 26 months ago
- From the page: "At least two Israeli fighter pilots have deliberately missed civilian targets in Lebanon as disquiet grows in the military about flawed intelligence, The Observer has learnt. Sources say the pilots were worried that targets had been wrongly identified as Hizbollah facilities."
It is the premise that there is a military solution to this situation that is flawed, and its victims are the civilians and combatants on both sides.
Characterizing the pilots who undertake the bombing raids as victims, too, may anger people, and they are clearly victims of a different order to the civilians they kill in the name of their country's security, but only by looking clearly at the situation may we hope to transform it and ourselves. Israelis are victims of their own victim mentality, which enables them to condone the most horrendous human rights violations on the grounds of self-preservation and will, unchecked, condemn them to a future of unremitting aggression against real or imagined threats.
I remember back in 1995 when I was part of a group of Israelis engaged in a dialog with Palestinians in Nablus. Our hosts included people who had served as long as seventeen years in Israeli jails for their part in resistance to occupation, yet they were at that time genuinely and firmly committed to a just peace between Israel and Palestine based on secure borders and mutual acknowledgement of the other side's right to self-determination.
During the course of the discussion, the issue of the settlers in the West Bank and Gaza came up. The Palestinians suffer greatly at the hands of the settlers, who take advantage of the Israeli army's tacit acceptance and defence of their harrassment and bullying to humiliate, expropriate, and attack them. The conversation turned to Baruch Goldstein's murder of some thirty Palestinian worshippers in the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron back in February 1994.
At one point, Rawda, one of the Palestinian participants (she had spent seven years in Israeli custody and was a fervent advocate of Palestinian rights) astounded me by saying (and you could tell these words came from the heart and from a deep understanding of the situation, forged in suffering and experience) "you know, I understand that after all a man such as Baruch Goldstein is also a victim of the situation." This to me was extraordinary. She abhorred the atrocity that Goldstein had perpetrated, but she chose the path of insight and understanding rather than reflexive hate. Ten years later, Rawda has yet to see her hopes for a just solution realized, but her courage is undimmed.
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