[cherry_su]

I can imagine that part of his team's excellence and efficiency is due to not focusing on differences not directly relevant to technical problems:

Although Israel grapples with Jewish-Arab tensions all the time, none of it mattered in Srouji’s world. Cohn, who remains friends with him, says their different backgrounds never came up. “Technical people treat technical people based on personality and technical ability,” he says. “You don’t think about it. You just work together. The rest goes away.”

[golergka]

That's more or less the norm for secular israelis, regardless of ethnicity.

[Cyph0n]

I'm sure they treat their fellow Palestinian Muslims well.

[golergka]

Far better than almost any other nations in a state of war, actually. Civilian to combatant death ratio was about 1:1 in the latest 2014 war, 4 times better than the usual modern wars involving first-world nations.

[Cyph0n]

What a war it was indeed. Aerial bombardment of a walled city. A rocket launched from Gaza injures a few people in Israel; a bomb (no need to mention phosphorous wink wink) dropped from a state-of-the-art fighter jet destroys an entire city block.

And when Israel finally decided that it was time for the "mighty" IDF ground forces to enter the stage... nothing really happened. The rockets just continued to be launched from Gaza for a whole month. It was a really amusing "war" to watch in my opinion :D

[golergka]

Well, if you have an opinion on what IDF could do differently to lower the amount of civilian casualties, I'm all ears.

[Cyph0n]

I'm no military expert, so I don't have one. Scratch that, I do. Allow aid to reach the million or so civilians in Gaza instead of choking it from all sides.

What I do know is that Israel was forced to agree on a ceasefire with a a bunch of "terrorists". Quite hilarious.

[Phlarp]

simple, stop making semi-annual "wars" against a (relative to IDF) defenseless population.