"...You may fool yourself and others but you don't fool me..."
That's because you're so much smarter than the rest of us.
"...You make this big "I think both sides should be told" and yet have zero problem with the IDF investigating themselves after a long, long history of finding military personnel guilty of indiscretion at worst..."
Go back and read my response again. At
no point did I either say
nor imply that it would be OK for the IDF to investigate this themselves; despite the fact that we're just supposed to take the
Palestinian side at face-value without contest.
Oh, there's blame enough to go around on both sides of the aisle, methinks, with respect to propaganda.
Non sequitur. What does the overuse of 'Victim Status' by one side have to do with the overuse of 'Victim Status' by the other? The fact that the Israelis do something similar from time to time does nothing to hide the fact that the Palestinians and their sympathizers milk every child-death for all it's worth on the international propaganda front.
"...Do not even try to BS me..."
I would never try to do that... you're much smarter than I am... I wouldn't dare.
"...I haven't been here that long but I have never seen you say anything critical of Israel or those who defend her."
Why would I do that?
I am openly and unabashedly and unashamedly and unapologetically and staunchly pro-Israeli, and anti-Palestinian in large part, and I have little interest in helping the opposition advocates in any way.
But, your own limited observations aside, once-in-a-blue-moon, you will catch me saying that something that Israel did was wrong or stupid or foolish or a PR disaster or the like.
Such observations coming out of me are few and far between, but I probably plop-down a half-dozen or so a month (-ish) on the average, which is not bad for somebody who has long-since taken a side.