The commanders of the Israeli army still support some of the humanitarian ideals that linger from when Israel tried to have the world's most moral army. For instance, don't murder prisoners.

The trial of the Israeli soldier who murdered a wounded Palestinian prisoner in cold blood has become an opportunity for the many rabid Arab-haters to agitate to eliminate those scruples and make the army as rabid as they are.

I fear that Israel will make the occupation ever more cruel and murderous once the last restraints are brushed aside.