Is Israel the 'most moral' army?
To say as much isn't quite hypocrisy. It's something much more frightening.
I might as well admit my priors from the start. Anyone who thinks that Israeli military is “the most moral army” in the world—which is quite literally what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the other day—can’t be taken as a good faith interlocutor. My open-mindedness, it seems, has limits, and I feel like it wou…
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