I really try to avoid posting in threads like this, but I just had to on this one.
SS, tell me, do the terrorist acts Hamas commits occur on a regular basis, or are they a rare event?
Because the things you are accusing the IDF of committing seem to be very rare. Isolated acts by nutjobs, as the case you posted shows (this is the whole paragraph that you started to quote):
Four minutes later, Israeli troops opened fire on the girl with machine guns and rifles, the radio transmissions indicated. The captain walked to the spot where the girl "was lying down" and fired two bullets from his M-16 assault rifle into her head, according to an indictment against the officer. He started to walk away, but pivoted, set his rifle on automatic and emptied his magazine into the girl's prone body, the indictment alleged
And *gasp*!! the Israeli's have INDICTED this individual for his crime. Does the palestinian gov't indict the terrorists that kill Israeli civilians?
As a result, the company commander -- identified by the army only as Capt. R -- was indicted this past week on charges of misuse of a firearm, ordering subordinates to lie about the shooting and violation of military regulations. In addition, the military moved to reexamine the investigation, which Yaalon conceded had been "a grave failure" and which the indictment alleged was the subject of an attempted coverup.
The shooting of the schoolgirl added to a growing number of incidents that have spurred Israeli soldiers to speak out about abuses of Palestinians, despite pressure from superiors in the field and statements by senior military officials playing down such cases. Last week, after troops provided photographic evidence to an Israeli newspaper, the military opened an investigation into allegations that soldiers desecrated the bodies of Palestinians killed during army operations.