You're either being intentionally dishonest, or you genuinely are mistaken but either way that's not at all accurate.
That quote you pulled is out of context and I do believe you're intentionally misrepresenting it:
Although this publication
does not claim to provide a broad, comprehensive review of all the soldiers and
the units who carried out the operation, these narratives are enough to bring into
question the credibility of the official IDF versions.
There are many significant gaps between the testimonies we gathered. These
testimonies describe use of the ‘neighbor procedure’ and of white phosphorus
ammunition in densely inhabited neighborhoods, massive destruction of buildings
unrelated to any direct threat to israeli forces, and permissive rules of engagement
that led to the killing of innocents. We also hear from the soldiers about the
general atmosphere that accompanied the fighting, and of harsh statements
made by junior and senior officers that attest to the ongoing moral deterioration
of the society and the army. during the operation, the military rabbinate made its
own contribution to these expressions when it introduced controversial religious
and political interpretation under the auspices of the idF and with its blessing.
Although certain features characterized this operation as a whole, significant
differences can be found among the various geographic areas and units. such
variation is also addressed in this publication.
That doesn't mean at all that the testimonies don't make sense, rather it means it's the testimonies of 30 people who were performing different roles in different parts of the occupied territories. In order for there to be no gaps and for the report to be "comprehensive," they would have to have testimony from every single member of the IDF who was involved in the siege. You take their honesty, their recognition that is is not every single side of the story nor could it be, but it is "enough to bring into question the credibility of the official IDF versions." because of the breadth of firsthand accounts from sources that did not interact but largely corroborate the general atmosphere and specific violations that were most widespread, and try to twist it to mean "this is hogwash."
Then, dear lord, you wallow in the singularly most inane non-argument of the blindly and unconditionally pro-zionist. "Everyone who isn't Jewish who doesn't fully support everything the Israeli government does is an anti-semite. Everyone who is Jewish who doesn't fully support everything the Israeli government does is a self-hating Jew."
Get out of here with your intellectually bankrupt smears. What you're claiming is that for no apparent reason whatsoever except that they all hate themselves for being Jewish, a large and diverse group of Israeli soldiers and journalists made up claims to defame the Israeli military and somehow secretly got together to make sure they were all making the same claims. On top of this, a large and diverse group of humanitarian aid workers, European journalists, UN representatives and investigators, who witnessed firsthand or examined the aftermath of the siege made up the same claims to defame Israel because they hate Jews. That's so patently absurd as to be laughable, if it weren't so sad.
None of the news stories and certainly not the Breaking the Silence collection have been debunked. Instead, the reporters captured quotes in a war zone from soldiers participating in an active military campaign. They asked questions and got answers, and the Israeli soldiers who spoke of the atrocities they witnessed or took part in didn't give them their full names or pose for pictures because that's a ridiculous expectation in such a situation and beyond the danger and difficulty of doing so under such circumstances, if they had their names attached to their comments they'd be reprimanded by the military. The alternative, that your argument relies on, which far as I can tell is merely based on the fact that the culpable government denied it, is that Haaretz and BBC journalists made quotes up out of whole cloth, again because they're either self-hating or anti-semitic.
The collection of testimonies of IDF soldiers has even more inscrutable credentials and is far more thorough, specific, and damning. When the Israeli government condemned the group for releasing the collection and claimed it was lies or any misconduct was the action of the infamous "few bad apples," Breaking the Silence offered any Israeli or independent investigative body access to the people whose testimonies were recorded, on the sole condition that the names not be made
public following the investigation because anonymity in blowing this whistle is essential to the safety and well-being of soldiers who are mostly still active duty.
That political or even extremist groups will pick up on the negative actions of a group or nation they oppose for use in their propaganda has no bearing on the validity of the recorded actions and it doesn't associate unaffiliated groups with them just because their honest information is reused for nefarious aims. By your rationale, because Al Qaeda has highlighted that settlers took our land by force and coercion from Native Americans, we had a long history of slavery, and interned Japanese Americans, none of those things actually happened since they're utilized by someone else's propaganda.
You are not a remotely intellectually honest person, Rabbi. You will make any absurd and irrational claim you see fit in order to deny what is abundantly clear to anyone who approaches the issue with an ounce of objectivity. To believe in the wild conspiracy theories you do, and that all who are not aligned with you either hate all Jews or themselves for being Jewish, is the sign of a person decidedly not interested in serious debate but rather wishes merely to malign his opponents to deflect from his own weak and unsubstantiated argument.
If you decide to rise above baseless name calling and unfounded but serious accusations of prejudice that span everyone but you and a handful who follow lockstep, I'm happy to discuss this. Until then, you've just gone round in circles repeating the same dishonest claims. No reason to bother going round again.
) then the fact is you don't care about the truth and it doesn't matter to you what happened, you're going to stick to whatever pre-decided blindly pro-Israel position you started with.
