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By international law, collective punishment is a international war crimes, which makes Israel guilty by definition in the rapes of Lebanon and Gaza at a minimum. As far as Israel killing young children, sometimes it may be argued they are the children of terrorists and at other times it is provable not the case.
And no, what some idiot Rabbi said a long time does not supersede international law.
The definition of collective punishment could also apply to punishing civilians by launching rockets at them when there is no military value. The intention is to terrorize the population. Collective punishment there.
What the Rabbi stated was the children are growing up in an environment that turns them into enemies. One could take his statements about Jews and Palestinians and easily swap the words and get the same effect.
Hatred for the other side is being taught and also the destruction of the other side at any age is considered to be acceptable as a preemptive action.
Neither side has their hands clean. There are Muslim and Islamic leaders that state the same