I could not disagree with you more.
Modern efforts to spare civilians in war means wars are never won. The populace of enemy countries are the enemy. We used to know that and as a result we won wars decisively.
As to Israel, I echo E5’s request —
name names and deeds. What exactly should Israel do a mea culpa about?
My comment did not have to do AT ALL with mea culpas. Quite the contrary, my comment had to do with making people “Pure Heroes”
It will do us no good as a country, nation, religion if we become a “black and white” society and lose our ability to rationally think and make judgments.
Israel does not have to apologize to ANYBODY for the Lehi group. However, that does not mean, Israel needs to glorify Lehi either. So, the difference here is knowing who we are as a nation and not being blindly patriotic but being intelligently patriotic
As an example I give you a very leftist American man. His name was MLK. He had many flaws. However, fundamentally he was able to achieve a miracle. He led African Americans on a civil rights movement that was by and large peaceful
Today, some blacks want to make MLK a “god” and say that he was perfect. That is nonsense. He was not. However, many others like me respect the man DESPITE his flaws as we respect his overall deeds. We don't exercise censorship and pretend MLK was perfect. We openly document his flaws (infidelity, socialism, plagiarism etc) and yet still manage to respect the man.
Hope that makes sense.