Breaking the truth: The mission to demonize Israel

[Little Tich]

7. I hope you understand the difference between the official BTS accounts and those of individual

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members - by refuting one, you don't refute the other. Not that either can be considered refuted by the people at My Truth or anyone else. The My Truth FB page is full of interesting keywords that betray their ideological motivation: "fakelestinian", "people that want to wipe you off the map", "terrorists", "delegitimization", "traitor", "no army in the world more moral than the IDF", "foreign funding" etc. There are also links to people and organization from all over the right-wing pro-Israel spectrum: Shurat Hadin, Dershowitz, isreallycool.com, Calgary United with Israel - CUWI, Asa Kasher, Algemeiner. Apart from the ideological content, the FB page has almost no substance, and any refutals of BTS accounts are weak.

Meanwhile, innocent Palestinians are injured by IDF activity on a daily basis, and sometimes killed (not on a daily basis):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_violent_incidents_in_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict,_2016

When a respectable human rights NGO like B'tselem has given up on the IDF's ability to investigate itself, why should BTS trust the IDF to do so? The moral credibility of the IDF is very important, as it's supposed to protect a country against those wish it harm, not to hurt civilians. If the soul of the IDF can't be found in the top brass, then organizations like BTS have to pick up that torch.

The IDF needs BTS...