Criticism Of
Criticism of the practice has centered on its consistency with international law, and the tendency for civilians to be killed in the process.
Colonel Dov Yirmiah has referred to ‘the lies about humanitarianism and “purity of arms”, and refers to purity of arms as a phrase that is ‘sickening and false.’ Dov’s book My War Diary: Lebanon June 5 -- July 1, 1982 has been described as having ‘crushed the myth’ of the purity of arms of the IDF.
Stanley Cohen has criticized the Israeli army's 'purity of arms', which asserts that force is used only when morally justified for self-defence as being an ‘elaborate myth’.
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