Michal Waldiger?
Why don't you post the entire dialogue? Instead of snipping out the important bits? Oh right, because the game is to post snipped bits of dialogue in order to fabricate demonization against Israel.
Well, since
sparky probably isn't going to show the quote in its entirety, I will.
Context: Michal Waldinger is speaking about her son's reserve duty and how IDF soldiers make sacrifice to protect ALL Israeli citizens (
emphasis mine).
Waldinger: What was done in Gaza, it’s a shame that it didn’t get worse. There are no uninvolved. We saw what happened on October 7. I saw people with crutches, elderly women with-- What are you talking to me about? They [IDF soldiers] want to protect you. Nothing like this has ever--They are Nazis. They are Nazis. It is just horrible and terrible. It is forbidden to say this here, what Knesset Member Ahmed Tibi said here. IDF soldiers are the purest good, and they do everything to protect human life in the State of Israel, whether they are Arabs, Jews, Circassians, no matter what they fight every enemy. Hamas is an evil and terrible enemy. Nazis. Simply Nazis.
Now I’m going to go into what I wrote myself. We are gathering today –
Tibi: Ask your son to be careful not to kill all my family members. Children.
Waldinger: Yes, I hope that my son will kill anyone who stands in front of him and wants to harm the State of Israel.
Tibi: Including children.
Waldinger: Yes, including if they send children. If your friends use children--
Tibi: Including children, say it. Say it.
Waldinger: As a human shield. Yes, they will also have to kill them because there is no choice. Sometimes there is no choice. Yes, the Hamas that uses small children as human shields. What can be done? It’s a war. There are casualties in war. I can’t understand what you are saying. If your friends are using children, women, and small children, as human shields, there is nothing that could be done. If someone tries to kill you, you kill him first. Really, he who has mercy on the cruel will end up being cruel to the merciful.
Let's be honest about what Michal is saying here, rather than snipping portions of her speech, changing the meaning, and presenting her as proof that Jews/Israelis are collectively evil. She is NOT saying that Gazan children should be targeted, nor that Gazan children are inherently evil and should be exterminated.
She is, very clearly, saying that WHEN children are used as human shields, as cover in combat, or as combatants, under conditions of war, those children must be accepted as casualties because there are no other choices in combat when faced with the use of children as part of that combat.
Now, you may not like that. You may think that is a terrible thing. (It obviously IS a terrible thing). You may think that a moral army should never kill a child no matter the circumstances, and no matter the risk or cost. You may even think it is possible in urban warfare to prevent all innocent deaths. You may believe that use of human shields in general and/or use of children as human shields is acceptable practice and those who adopt this practice are innocent of any wrong-doing. You may believe that there are plenty of choices.
Fine. Let's discuss. But let's discuss in full honesty. And not with demonizing and false memes.