“An independent investigation is needed because aid workers continue to be killed by the IDF. They kept firing until every worker was dead," U.S.-Canadian aid worker Jacob Flickinger's father said of the death of his only son.
The thing is, that excuse actually seems worse to me than just saying “yeah, one of our people saw an aid convoy and decided to order an attack”. The latter is a single bad apple. Sure, in that counterfactual Israel should have noticed the person was unfit and never let him in a command position. However, people are unpredictable and momsters exist.
However, in the story Israel gave, there was no individual monster; only a systemic one. Misreading a grainy image is not a crime. It is not even morally wrong. And, more importantly, it is going to happen thousands of times weather you like it or not. The problem was the policy that that single determination was enough to authorize a strike. According to Israel; that policy is a-ok.
The thing is, that excuse actually seems worse to me than just saying “yeah, one of our people saw an aid convoy and decided to order an attack”. The latter is a single bad apple. Sure, in that counterfactual Israel should have noticed the person was unfit and never let him in a command position. However, people are unpredictable and momsters exist.
However, in the story Israel gave, there was no individual monster; only a systemic one. Misreading a grainy image is not a crime. It is not even morally wrong. And, more importantly, it is going to happen thousands of times weather you like it or not. The problem was the policy that that single determination was enough to authorize a strike. According to Israel; that policy is a-ok.