Some days, Israeli military leaders feign the urge to protect enemy civilians. Yet measured rhetoric is not politically viable in Israel. When used, it’s aimed at the West: in 2022, the commander of Israel’s Palmachim Airbase, Brigadier General Omri Dor, described the work of his forces as “starting with a very surgical event of finding a person or a single launcher and neutralizing it without causing collateral damage or harm to another person.” In June 2024, almost 10 months into carrying out a genocide, the head of the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit described a so-called rescue operation as “a surgical operation, like a brain operation; it has to be so accurate.”
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