Israel’s Perfidy

Roger Hawcroft
5 min readMay 29, 2024

The IDF are either incredibly incompetent or downright liars.

A small Israeli flag held by a hand in front of a large Stars & Stripes of the USA
Photo by Karolina Grabowska: https://www.pexels.com/photo/crop-person-showing-handmade-flag-of-israel-4386403/

It is incomprehensible that one of the best equipped armies in the World, by their own admission, supposedly targeting precise objectives, continually makes what it then claims are ‘accidents’ or ‘mistakes’.

Most, if not all of these ‘mistakes’ take place when the IDF fires upon or bombs areas that they have declared as ‘safe zones.’ The latest one of these was inflicted by tanks on the ground — not missiles from many miles away, yet the IDF says it was a mistake and their assault could not have caused the massive fires that suddenly errupted in a refugee camp within a ‘safe zone.’

What were the tanks doing in that safe zone, let alone firing their weapons?

Continually, the Israeli command has ordered Palestinian civilians to move to what it has said are ‘safe zones’, only to subsequently order them to move yet again, and again, and again … In each case, such ‘safe zones’ proving not to be such, even before the new orders to move.

International courts have made several orders that are legally binding on Israel but which Israel ignores with impunity. Indeed, Netanyahu and his War Cabinet have shown the utmost disdain for international opinion and international humanitarian law and the Genocide Convention. They have also shown the utmost disdain for…

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Roger Hawcroft

Expat Tyke in Australia. Dismayed & depressed at World conflict/poverty/disadvantage/hatred. Buoyed by music, art, literature, nature, animals & birds.