I wouldn't classify Moshe Feiglien as a 'tzadik', especially not in the political context, but I do agree with him this time, atleast mostly, atleast in the points you have mentioned.
The whole chain of command that authorized this demonic murder of 15 civilians in order to catch one terrorist should be brought to justice. I personally think none of them should remain in service if it is revealed that all of them knew that a similar number of civilians might be killed in the attack. There shall be no mercy about it, no more than we will mercy a suicide bomber who will take down a resturant in Azrieli together with all the officers dining inside. Terror is terror and murder is murder, and any attempt to justify our war crimes will only make our war endless and our defeat certain. It's not a war over land but over values, and the side which causes the most horrible atrocities will lose the most.
Our standards should not be compared to the global double standards, as they should be kept awfully busy with the war crimes in Chechniya and Afghanistan before turning to judge our deeds in Jenin.
However we should not hide behind this masks of international hypocracy, as the Palestenians and the whole Arab world closely watch our actions and evaluate our intentions accordingly. We only had a chance for peace after we have done nothing in the Gulf war. We will eternally lose any chance for peace if we make a nuclear strike on Baghdad or if we complete the wall starving the Palestenian people and insuring they will have no less than 40% unemployment in the coming years, which implies we'll have no peace at least at that time.
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