Being IDF, the Most Moral Army in the World™
Not for the IDF the accepted rules and laws of war, it works on principles much greater, making it the Most Moral Army in the World™.
You already knew, but if you didn’t, then its activities over the last month have proven beyond any doubt that the Israel Defence Forces, or the IDF, is the Most Moral Army in the World™. Even the Prime Minister of Israel attested to its morality, so that settles the debate, if there was any, to begin with.
The IDF’s title of the Most Moral Army in the World™ is hard-earned.
The IDF is the only army in the world that sends notifications to its victims before it bombs them. This separates a moral army from an immoral one, or at least, the less moral ones. If the Russians had followed the same practice while bombing the Ukrainians, the Russian army could have been in contention in the morality debate. Or if the Americans did the same thing as they bombed Korea, Guatemala, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Grenada, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Yugoslavia, Sudan, Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc., they could be in the running. But being the Most Moral Army in the World™ is no easy task, which is why only the IDF has that title.
The IDF told the over 1 million residents of northern Gaza — one of the most densely-populated areas of the world that is not much longer than the length of a marathon race and is on an average no wider than 5 miles — to evacuate and move to the south of the enclave before it laid waste to the region. It’s another matter that the besieged people had nowhere to go. And, by the by, those moving to the south of the strip were bombed anyway. But the fact that the IDF informed them before bombing them to bits is further attestation to its standing as the Most Moral Army in the World™.
One of the many things that makes IDF the Most Moral Army in the World™ is the quality of its intelligence and the precision of its strikes. (Ignore the fact that despite bombing 12,000 targets by the end of October, the IDF’s “operations so far have not come close to destroying Hamas’s senior and middle leadership ranks,” according to a New York Times report. Hamas has an estimated 20,000-25,000 fighters. So that’s roughly 1 bomb for every 2 fighters!) Just look at the bombing of the ambulance convoy in front of Gaza City’s Al Shifa hospital that killed 15 people. Let the world say whatever it wants (UN chief Antonio Guterres: “I am horrified by the reported attack in Gaza on an ambulance convoy outside Al-Shifa hospital. The images of bodies strewn on the street outside the hospital are harrowing.”), the IDF’s state-of-the-art intelligence said that the ambulance was “used by a Hamas terrorist cell.” People make up things against the IDF because they don’t like the Most Moral Army in the World™.
In case you missed it, right at the beginning of the war, the Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant ordered a total siege of Gaza. “I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel. Everything is closed,” he said. And he explained why, like the moral commander of the Most Moral Army in the World™, “We are fighting human animals.” That’s it. Animals aren’t fought with the conventional rules of war. Moreover, the statutes followed by the armies of other countries say that starving civilians as a method of warfare is a violation of international humanitarian law and a war crime (ICC Statute, Article 8(2)(b)(xxv)) and also that the IDF’s conduct constitutes crimes against humanity (Article 7), but the Most Moral Army in the World™ doesn’t operate under such moral principles. Its morals are derived from a higher source. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced, “You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible,” referring to the Biblical verse that commands for the wholesale slaughter of “men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.” Acting upon these higher moral principles is another reason why the IDF is the Most Moral Army in the World™.
The Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property prohibits “any acts of hostility directed against the historic monuments, works of art or places of worship which constitute the cultural or spiritual heritage of peoples.” The IDF has bombed 26 mosques in Gaza since 7 October. Also, on 19 October, it bombed parts of what is thought to be the third-oldest church in the world because man-made charters and conventions aren’t worth the paper they are printed on for the Most Moral Army in the World™. One of the things that makes the IDF the Most Moral Army in the World™ is bombing churches while quoting the Bible.
The IDF has a long and illustrious history of creating refugees and then bombing their shelters multiple times. It doesn’t differentiate between refugee camps; it bombs all of them. Jabalia? Bombed. Al-Maghazi? Bombed. Bureij? Bombed. Shati? Bombed. You name it. UN officials say that these bombings could be war crimes and talk about abiding by “international humanitarian law, including the principles of distinction, proportionality, and precaution.” None of it matters to the IDF. The IDF has higher morals and principles. Acting on those higher morals and principles makes it the Most Moral Army in the World™.
Most armies in the world protect their people. Some would say that’s the entire reason for an army’s existence. Not for the IDF. During the Hamas attacks of 7 October, the IDF turned its guns on its own units and fellow citizens. As The Grazyzone reported: “The commanders in the field made difficult decisions — including shelling houses on their occupants in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages.” The report further added that “the Israeli military was ‘compelled to request an aerial strike’ against its own facility inside the Erez Crossing to Gaza ‘in order to repulse the terrorists’ who had seized control. That base was filled with Israeli Civil Administration officers and soldiers at the time.” Furthermore, the Electronic Intifada reported on a witness testimony. Yasmin Porat, who was among the survivors of the attack, said: “They [the IDF soldiers] eliminated everyone, including the hostages.” Killing their own? Other armies would call it immoral; the IDF calls it the Hannibal Directive because that’s what the Most Moral Army in the World™ does.
These are just some reasons that make the IDF the Most Moral Army in the World™. The full list of reasons would run into several volumes of thick tomes, so we will stop here for the time being.
Oh, and by the way, have you ever wondered what the moral soldiers of the Most Moral Army in the World™ do in their downtime? They sing and dance to the songs of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and colonialism. Because that’s the only leisure fit for the soldiers of the Most Moral Army in the World™.
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