But God approves of muslims or christians killing children?
What nonsense!
God kills children and always has for no reason through disease and accidents. Some children just stop breathing naturally and too often parents not only have to suffer the loss but have to go through accusation before being cleared of any wrong doing.
War and violence is hell on everyone. Apart from people like Assad and islamist bombers that target schools, no one wants to target children. Sometimes it cannot be helped that they are killed for any number of reasons.
You really think Israel or anyone else wants negative publicity for the death of a child?
Police in every country have unfortunately had to kill children. It is something when possible they try to avoid.
It is sad fact that children have been used by militants to kill. Women have even strapped bombs on their infants to use them as suicide bombers.
I've see muslims cut open pregnant mothers and rip the child out of them and let them bleed to death. I've seen them rape children not much more than toddler. A gun placed to a child's head and their brain splatter, or even bashed in with a rock. Heads used as soccer or polo oballs. An infant tossed out of a burning bus in an attempt to save it's life casually thrown back into the fire and cheers when it's head pops from the heat. Lock people in a church and set fire to the building killing all inside. I've seen small children trained to use guns and sent in to combat. Children taught to kill with knives to slit a persons throat.
Unfortunately this is life in the region. Children large or small are raised to be sacrificed.
Madness, but fact.
With the atrocities perpetrated in the region you have the gall to single out Israel for the unfortunate casualties of a war being waged on them?
War is hell on everyone. There is not way to make war sanitary or humane. War is not waged only by armies on a prearranged battle field. Innocents have always been causality of wars. Innocents on either side.
A nice souvenier T-shirt eases their pain...
BBC NEWS | Middle East | Israel army rides out T-shirt row
"The Israeli military has faced heavy criticism for causing high levels of civilian casualties during its recent Gaza offensive.
The army frequently says it takes care to avoid civilian casualties and blames Palestinian militants for putting them in harm's way.
A sociologist quoted by Haaretz, Orna Sasson-Levy of Bar-Ilan University, warned the designs could strengthen, stimulate and legitimise aggression towards Palestinians in the occupied territories.
"There is... increasing callousness," she said. "There is a perception that the Palestinian is not a person, a human being entitled to basic rights and therefore anything may be done to him."
The Haaretz investigation discovered
numerous T-shirts depicting violence against Palestinians and appearing to celebrate sexual assault.
'Moral army'
The Tel Aviv clothing firm Adiv, which made many of the shirts, did not comment on the Haaretz report.
It prints up about 500 different patterns for military units each month, Haaretz says, mostly jokes about army life and "a handful reflecting particular aggressiveness, violence and vulgarity".
On Monday, Israel's chief of staff defended his troops against a rising tide of criticism.
"I tell you that this is a moral and ideological army," Lt-Gen Gabi Ashkenazi said in a speech to new recruits.
"I have no doubt that exceptional events will be dealt with. We took every measure possible to reduce harm to the innocent [in Gaza]."
The Haaretz report says the T-shirts tend to be worn strictly in private or in barracks because of adverse civilian reactions and are seen by army psychologists as an expression of bonding within a small, tight-knit unit.
Last week several soldiers were quoted anonymously in the media saying troops had killed Palestinians, including women and children, by hastily opening fire under relaxed rules of engagement in Gaza.
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You know, aris2chat, we can all make up atrocities to justify other atrocities. You have excelled at it above, but we are talking about a branch of the Israeli government here and due to Israel's insistance of being recognised as a Jewish state, a representative of the Jewish people, or at least many of them.
Shall we feel at liberty to use your post to mitigate any future Fogels. That would be a horrible thing to do so I won't indulge, thank you.
You don't kill kids, but if you do, and then celebrate it and brag about it, well that depicts the depravity and amorality of your organization and your country...but hey, at least command is dealing with it firmly and allowing them only to be worn in the barracks and at home, not in discos, parks, restaurants and at markets anymore.
Oh wait. My bad. They don't really do that now, do they.
True colors!!!
