Why we fight

[azurnoir]

10. I felt this passage particulary rich

They stumble across a concentration camp. This scene, the discovery of such an evil place, is the most vivid and discomforting. The people they find are starving, emaciated and close to death. They question the prisoners about who is being held here. One US soldier translates the answers. “Criminals?” he asks. “No,” comes the reply, “musicians, artists, teachers: Jews.” The evil of the Nazi project that they have been fighting against for so many years is no longer abstract: the soldiers realize why they fight.

so we are to think Nazi's when Arabs are mentioned? and then this-

“They save lives”, she told me, asking me to consider the case of a pregnant Palestinian woman who was brought to a checkpoint in an ambulance which, once inspected, was found to be carrying concealed explosive devices. “Take a second,” she asked me, “to understand what kind of dilemma an 18- year old soldier is presented with when on the one hand she sees a heavily pregnant woman, apparently desperate to go to hospital, but at the same time, fears it is a hoax that will cost others’ lives.”

Knowing she faces an enemy that would use a pregnant woman about to deliver as a decoy and the clear and present danger that Israeli citizens face from this threat; Lital was clear why she fights.

it happened but now because it happened it is moral to hold pregnant women Palestinian women at checkpoints even when it endangers the lives of both her and the baby

IDF's moral philosophy seems based on if one did they are all guilty for ever

and note that the clip stops short of whether Yair gunned down the Lebanese children but skips to another passage where ansoldier saves the life of a single Palestinian boy leaving us to draw our own conclusions