Thank you. Hearing from soldiers themselves adds so much perspective about the reality. These soldiers probably represent the feelings of some others too who feel they cannot resign.
These are brave men.
He was also dismayed at what he described as a lack of clarity for soldiers regarding the rules of engagement, which he said were far more explicit during his compulsory military service, and felt the rules during this war were far looser than anything he previously experienced.
This corroborates what some of the Israeli soldiers in the +972 article “I shoot because I’m bored”, say.
One of the soldiers, Green, in this Guardian article said,
“I saw soldiers graffiting houses or stealing all the time. They would go into a house for a military reason, looking for weapons, but it was more fun to look for souvenirs – they had a thing for necklaces with Arabic writing that they collected.”*
I wonder what the writing on the necklaces says? It is almost as though they must covet something about the people they are supposed to bring down.