Is this true?
I am not the naive and I expect - under the wrong circumstances - any behaviour from any army and any police force, be it often on an incidental basis.
And who would have expected exactly three months ago (July 6th!) that the British police would within days get orders to shoot at civilians... And that the British police would actually shoot and kill an innocent bystander!
The point is that in democracies like Britain and Israel there is a free press, there can be an outcry and there will be an investigation or a court case, like the one that took place in Israel. And Israel's chief justice ruled: "The army cannot use civilians for its purposes". I bet there will be plenty of whatchgroups keeping an eye on the Israeli army's behaviour...
But let's go and take a look at the other side of the hill, for a change.
The standard modus operandi of the 'oppostion' is usually to quote from the Koran and then slice the throat of an innocent hostage, or to exclaim: "Allah Akbar!" and press the button of a spike bomb amidst public transport passengers or in a restaurant...
That's the reality of terrorism and the war against it.
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