Morality in Battle

The new petition:-

"The one who is merciful with the cruel will end up by being cruel to the merciful people"

We hereby call upon the political echelon and the IDF authorities to come back and to act according to the well known military doctrine known as "rolling fire screen" according to which no foot of an infantry soldier touches enemy's ground only after this territory had been "softened" by massive artillery and air raid attacks. All of this in order to enable infantry forces carry their duties of clearing the destroyed enemy's territory, ascertaining death, collecting captured weapons, military equipment and documents without being forced to be engaged in urban warfare from house to house and enter wasps nests full of Islamic terrorists ambushing behind every door, window or corner and turning them into being an easy prey for the enemy.

An order given to enter this kind of inferno and to clear terrorists nests without first softened by heavy artillery and crushing from the air, will be considered, under the circumstances of fighting Islamic terror, as an unlawful in reality order which in vain and without any moral and/or military justification endangers the life of our dear sons the IDF's soldiers.

Consideration and sensitivity regarding human lives should first be regarding our sons, the worriers of the IDF, and certainly not towards a pseudo-innocent civilian population that under their umbrella / human shield fanatic Islamic terror cancer grows and blooms (both in Lebanon, the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip).

In order to put and end to the "stupidity march" in which the lives of our sons the soldiers of the IDF, are being sacrificed daily and in order to regain deterrence power in front of our enemies in the Middle East, as far as they are concerned (both Hammas and Hizbballah), they are not conducting war over a territory but a Jihhd (Islamic holy war) in order to destroy the State of Israel. We should all become sober and immediately redefine the IDF's battle and moral rules.

We have to do so in order that the saying - "let the IDF win" - will be a meaningful saying otherwise it will mean "send the IDF's worriers to fight with both hands cuffed behind their backs and let them sacrifice their souls in order to save the lives of terror supporting terrorists"!

Based on the above I call upon and plea not to stand aside, to sign this petition and join this civilian initiative in order to protect and save the lives of the IDF's soldiers.

This protection of human lives will be carried out by an immediate redefinition of the IDF's battle and moral rules according to the warfare environment of the Middle East, this in order to put and end to sacrificing lives of the IDF's soldiers and regaining IDF's deterrence power as of without which we have no right of existence in the Middle East.