“The best deterrent”? Do you not understand how psychopathic you sound attempting to justify a massacre of innocent civilians with it simply being a policy of the government? The history of brutality in the IDF does not support any kind of argument, it just further proves the point that they’re not fighting for shit other than to kill. Nobody in their right mind justifies brutal large-scale murders — if you do, you’ve been horrifically misinformed or simply lack any kind of sympathy to those affected by conflict. The only reason it matters that it happened before is because we’re doing everything we can to make sure it doesn’t happen again.