Israel's statement that it will defend its soldiers tells us two things about Israel: the higher levels of the administration may be implicated in the war crimes and/or they are complicit in the potential war crimes and not a just or humane nation.
The first is quite easy to deduce. Often people at the top of the command chain fear the bottom speaking out about those above in return for leniency. Whether you are a drug lord or a government war criminal, it is always the upper echelon giving the orders that is the golden prize, not the drudge soldiers who carry out said orders.
Even if the above point is untrue, and the soldiers acted individually and committed war crimes of their own volition, what does it say about a society that wishes to obscure justice? In civilian law, even manslaughter – an unintentional destruction of life – is punishable; why is there a different standard in a time of war? A hallmark of Western values is that that which is large must protect that which is small, or those with the most power carry the greatest responsibility. This is still further proof of the secularism entrenched in the modern state of Israel and how removed it is from Judaism, which maintains those values.
Bill O'Reilly recently said how sometimes one must compromise your values to ensure security, to which Jon Stewart pointed out that in that case they are no longer values. It's a sad state of affairs when Israel and its defenders agree more with Bill O'Reilly than Jon Stewart.
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