You are surprisingly right. I know people who served in IDF and would prefer to have nothing in common with those criminals. Generalizing to them would be wrong. It is not voluntary service, different people are required to serve. But people aside, is IDF as institution rotten? It is not generalization to say „yes“, when such things happen. An institution is an entity with the agency to prevent such things and not only did it fail, it covered up. Is Israeli government complicit? Hell, yes, same reason.
replyThere were people in the German army (Wehrmacht) who wanted to have nothing in common with those criminals. Some even tried to kill Hitler and get rid of the regime.
replyNot the majority though, else the wehrmacht would have done less war crimes.
replyI think this depends on whether you draw the boundary at "refuses to do X even when killed for it" or "wouldn't have done X on their own".
replyIDF is an army of Israel, not some unknown militant group.
replyIsrael is a state, as they call "democratic", which elected officials who have control to stop these crimes, but not stopping deliberately.