Reply #23: Israel gets no credit for being so openly critical of itself

[shira]

and more critical of itself than any other nation.....b/c the thinking outside of Israel by many "in the know" is that the powers in charge minimize and ignore everything, and the Israeli populace is either too ignorant or stupid to know this, or they know and are also complicit - which justifies collective demonization of most Israeli Jews apart from "good" ones like Gideon Levy. One has to wonder if any Israelis read their own papers to know just how bad Israel is....GOSH!!!

Remember, there's simply no way that the IDF acts morally 95% or 99% of the time and just makes some unfortunate mistakes or has some bad apples to root out.