Battle Ethics

For the past three weeks, and the last few days especially, the debate has been raging whether Israel should be more agressive in its offensive operations in the South Lebanon villages.

Tuesday night this week, I saw a Brigadier General, one Yaakov Ayish, explain that the IDF fights an ethical war and therefore does not call down air strikes on civilian buildings in the villages nor does it demolish them.


This is bullsh*t.


Israel does it in the territories.

It is also doing it in Beirut.

At the least, we could be destroying cover in the hills surrounding the villages from where many of these anti-tank missiles are being fired (they are shot from 2-3 kms. away).

We could also say that we called for the people to come out and since they did tolerate the Hezbollah until Israel came, let them tolerate Hezbollah after Israel has left. They could even present the bill to Nasrallah's finance advisor.

But we could also say that since the Hezbollah is actually a unit of the Iranian army, this is full scale warfare and a different set of rules apply.

We won't naplam like the U.S. did in Vietnam nor firebomb like the Brits did in World War II.

But we do have the capabilities of better protecting our soldiers. We do, lack, admittedly, strength of character in our leaders. And they lack resolve.