haaretz.com - 3/21/2009
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Less than a month after the end of Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip, dozens of graduates of the Yitzhak Rabin pre-military preparatory program convened at Oranim Academic College in Kiryat Tivon. Since 1998 the program has prepared participants for what is considered meaningful military ...
haaretz.com - 3/19/2009
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haaretz.com —
During Operation Cast Lead, Israeli forces killed Palestinian
civilians under permissive rules of engagement and intentionally destroyed...
their property, say soldiers who fought in the offensive. The soldiers are graduates of the Yitzhak Rabin ...
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IDF in Gaza: Killing civilians, vandalism, and lax rules ...
ynetnews.com - 3/20/2009
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ynetnews.com —
'It is true that in war morality can
be interpreted in many different ways, and there are...
always a few idiots who act inappropriately, but most of the troops represented Israel honorably,' soldier says in response to claims of immoral behavior during ...
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IDF soldiers refute claims of immoral conduct in Gaza - ...
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More on IDF Soldiers’ Accounts of Civilian Killing in Gaza
Comments from Left Field —
... Amos Harel has another piece in Haaretz about the revelations, by IDF soldiers who graduated from a pre-military training program in Israel, of massive disregard for civilian life in Gaza. The article quotes extensively from the transcript of the meeting where the soldiers talked about what they had seen. ...
IDF Fashion Report: T-Shirts are IN; Ethics are OUT
Firedoglake —
... The IDF has now announced that they will investigate the reports in the soldiers' accounts (a transcript of some of these can be found here), though they received a full report on the discussion two weeks ago. They have known about the t-shirts all along. ...
Is Ha’aretz is pulling a Scott Thomas on us?
Yourish.com —
Remember Scott Thomas? The New Republic’s crack reporter who wrote about supposed atrocities in Iraq? The one who was utterly disgraced and proven to be a liar?
This Melanie Phillips article on Ha’aretz’s claims of IDF abuse in Gaza makes me think of nothing so much as the Scott Thomas affair.
Of course Hague was careful to say the truth of this evidence was not yet known. But there is no evidence. So far, there is simply nothing to prove or disprove from these reports of the soldiers’ discussion carried in Ha’aretz last week, here and here — just ...
Breaking With Israel
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... , the musical theme of which inspired my youthful passion for the lushly Romantic, the storyline as well as the music. It is, increasingly , the Israel of our ...
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