Oddbean

Regular military forces are required to wear uniforms. Irregular forces may wear civilian attire, but must wear a symbol by which they may be identified at a distance. The IDF dressing as civilians makes them every bit as guilty as Hamas. And the fact you somehow went through national service without learning the Geneva Conventions is symptomatic of the moral abyss that is today's IDF. With the ubiquity of security cameras, we have (illegally leaked, later admitted) footage of Israeli soldiers committing acts of rape and sadism. Cameras on Oct 7th did not record anything comparable by Hamas during their raid. They are bad men, but in the 13 minutes between their attack on the music festival and the arrival of IDF attack helicopters they behaved as a scarily professional military force, snatching dozens of hostages and getting them back into Gaza alive. The most dangerous thing about Hamas is the way they managed to weaponise Zionist evil against Israeli civilians, IDF ground troops and Israel's public image. Half the Israeli dead on October 7th were security forces, and many of their dead civilians had been burned with white phosphorus shells, a weapon Hamas does not possess. The culture of rape and death you describe appears to be Israel's alone. As does the culture of food and medicine denial as a weapon of genocide. Sad.