Yitzhak Shapira is a total nut and widely regarded as such. He has a long history of legal problems as well. To call him a leading rabbi is a grotesque lie on the part of Ha’aretz. To hold him up as an example of Torah Judaism or what Torah law is, is a grotesque lie on your part.

The extreme lengths the IDF goes to in order to avoid civilian casualties are much more in line with Torah law.

You clearly have some Torah education. What compels you to write with such venom against something that you must know does not say what you claim it does, and large groups of people who do not hold the views you claim they do?

As to the grim necessities of warfare, Torah law is quite cognizant of the unfortunate need to kill. It was revolutionary though by making laws about preserving the land when you do so (the law about trees for instance), not murdering and not raping.

You know this to be true.

Why do you pretend it is otherwise?

Also, do not give me some beef about Amalek or Midian. Those are moot arguments because they were one time situations and they could not possibly come up today or even 2,800 years ago as a practical question or objection.