Jewish ethics: Non-Jews have no moral worth

A new documentary premiered this week. It’s called Breaking Ranks: Inside Israel’s War, and it features interviews with Israeli Defense Force soldiers on the “war” in Gaza.

That is an important point. Netanyahu supporters can’t play their usual game and cast these testimonies aside as biased, out of context, or antisemitic. They literally come from the IDF. And they are damning.

“There are no innocents in Gaza.”

That’s the philosophy the soldiers admitted to abiding by while executing their country’s “military operations.” In the eyes of the IDF, every single Gazan is appropriate to target because they’re all just a bunch of terrorists.

It doesn’t take a foreign affairs expert to know how absurd a view that is. They’re all terrorists? Really? It’s a laughable stance. Over half of the Gaza Strip’s October 7th population was under 18. They were children. But it didn’t matter. The Israeli government fired away.

“One time the Brigade Rabbi sat down next to me… [and said] that we must take revenge on all of them, including civilians,” IDF armored corps officer Yatom Vilik said in the film. “That we shouldn’t discriminate, and that this was the only way.”

We shouldn’t discriminate. Just kill them all. 

That is not a Western way of thinking. Collective punishment is an assault on the very “civilized world” Israel purports to represent. If all Palestinians are Hamas, then all U.S. citizens must be neocons. Would Iraqis be justified in murdering stadiums of people in Chicago and New York as revenge for George Bush’s invasion of their country? Of course not. Because the average American did nothing wrong. Neither did the typical Gazan civilian. But again, it didn’t matter.

“How many people is it legitimate to kill, to kill a Hamas battalion commander?” an IDF air force colonel was asked.

“There’s no limit,” he replied. “If you ask me, I would have pushed them all into the sea with D9 bulldozers after October 7th.”

Bulldoze the innocents? That’s Nazi talk. [More appropriately, Communist talk, as in the mass murders perpetrated by Jews in the early decades of the USSR.] So is this:

“If you want to shoot without restraint, you can,” an IDF tank unit commander said. “One time, there was a building that was being used for humanitarian purposes, [but] one of the commanders really, really wanted to target [it]. So he fired a shell at it anyway.”

Bombing a humanitarian aid facility is not the behavior of a moral army. It’s an act of terrorism. How would Benjamin Netanyahu react if Hamas did the exact same thing? What would Mark Levin say? What about Randy Fine? It’s easy to predict. They’d be out for blood. But when we criticize their side for doing it, they call us antisemites. It’s a joke.

One more quote for good measure:

“Multiple IDF commanders and soldiers admitted to the genocidal intent of the IDF, with one saying, ‘In the current political climate, in the state of Israel, there is no value to any human life that is not Israeli, or better still, Jewish Israeli.’”

These people are sick. No human is inherently more valuable than another because of their identity. God created everyone in His image. It doesn’t matter if you’re American, European, African, Middle Eastern, Australian, or from the North Pole. There is no such thing as blood superiority. Those who disagree, like the IDF’s leaders, have more in common with Adolf Eichmann than Jesus.

Remembering that American taxpayers fund this lunacy is enraging enough to cause a blood pressure spike. Each day it continues is a day of national humiliation. The United States government needs to grow a spine and free itself from this venomous “special alliance.” And that’s a moderate stance. The other side is the radicals.