Breaking the truth: The mission to demonize Israel [View all]

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Maj. Amit Deri (res.), manager at a pre-military program, served as a company commander in Hebron. There he came across the activities of Breaking the Silence, an organization made up of ex-IDF soldiers. Deri started to look into exactly what they were doing. The result was an incendiary tape. Deri recorded shocking stories that Avner Gvaryahu, from the organization's leadership, told journalists, diplomats and foreign visitors. Gvaryahu created the impression that the IDF fired machine guns over a "massive radius" as a matter of routine, killing innocent civilians....

....In every comparison between the behavior of the IDF and the behavior of other armies in similar clashes, it is revealed that the IDF is responsible for far fewer innocent casualties than all other armies. They're not perfect, but they're much more careful and far more moral. The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff has stated that the US army takes lessons from the IDF on how to avoid innocent casualties. He knows what he's talking about. But members of the anti-Israel campaign, such as Breaking the Silence, draw the inverse picture with only kernels of truth.....

....The massacre that wasn't is just one example, from which we understand the overall process. There are exceptions. The IDF isn't perfect. Breaking the Silence looks for the exceptions, inflates them, fogs up the background and creates a portrait of an army that commits crimes non-stop. In every comparison between the behavior of the IDF and the behavior of other armies in similar clashes, it is revealed that the IDF is responsible for far fewer innocent casualties than all other armies. They're not perfect, but they're much more careful and far more moral.

The chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff has stated that the US army takes lessons from the IDF on how to avoid innocent casualties. He knows what he's talking about. But members of the anti-Israel campaign, such as Breaking the Silence, draw the inverse picture with only kernels of truth.....

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