Roof knocking is a term used for dropping leaflets or sending a warning text message to a massive amounts of people who live in the vicinity of the target location, not bombing the fucking place as a warning.
From your source:
Roof knocking (Hebrew: הקש בגג)[1] or "knocks on the roof" is a term used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to describe its practice of dropping non-explosive or low-yield devices on the roofs of targeted civilian homes[2] in the Palestinian territories as a prior warning of imminent bombing attacks to give the inhabitants time to flee the attack.
No, he won't.
Yes he will.
Your role decides the kind of training you'll get in the IDF, my friend, for example, was in bootcamp for 4 weeks. He shot 10 rounds out of a gun, and hasn't carried a rifle ever since.
Yes, that's probably true.
he won't do anything combat related, ever.
1- never said anything about him doing things that are combat related. I was referring to the fact that he would probably be performing more important support/logistics functions than counting cutlery.
2- If they need combat troops desperately, that might change.
The main issue in the negotiations isn't the settlements, but Jerusalem. Not alot of people give a shit if the settlements get moved into the Israeli territory, they care about Jerusalem.
Settlements are massive issue for both sides. Ariel Finger especially. Jerusalem is just the main issue right now, because of Trump's actions. At present, Palestine is composed of a number of small, disconnected enclaves, which makes any Palestinian state composed of the areas a and b that exist today, barely viable, if at all.
Only if they are long ranged mortars. It's (the iron dome) not very effective against short range mortars.
What range is considered a short range? Because short range mortars are hardly a nation-wide threat if you have most of them stuck behind walls and security fences.
I wish I was being over dramatic.
Yes, for the Palestinians, you aren't. For the Israelis? Most Israelis aren't in that level of danger.
Show me a source mate. No one is bombing the West Bank.
Yes, that's why you said west bank. Go to Gaza if you want to see the bombings.
No one is rounding up Palestinians and shooting them.
When the conflict really starts to flare up again, you might see that. Although, they are going to try much harder to keep anything like that away from the media.
and no one pops from the ground in Hebron and shoots random people.
Israelis engage in constant raids on Palestinians in Hebron. They have a protocol where they can basically shoot anyone they want in night raids. They have done raids on wounded combatants in hospitals, killing them. Violation of the rules of war and of human rights. Innocence isn't the only issue, disproportionate uses of force and human rights is also an important factor to consider.
Again, key word here is random. Innocent.
Random =/= innocent. Obviously they plan many attacks on people. Doesn't mean they aren't innocent.
I mean, if protesting is a crime, then there's basically no way to fit your criteria of being innocent.
Not a dude who carried a knife and ran towards a soldier, not a girl who walked with a black packback towards a checkpoint, refused to stop when told to, didn't flinch when a warning shot hit the ground near her, not a dude who threw Molotov cocktails and stones at soldiers during a massive protest,
Shooting protestors and stone throwers is a disproportionate use of force. Shooting disarmed, restrained knife attackers dead is a disproportionate use of force, and a summary execution, which is not right.
and not a dude who built an entire neighborhood without a permit, and then acts surprised when his neighborhood gets demolished for being... well, illegal
Strawman. This isn't what is happening either. People who already live there are being kicked out of homes that already existed there, and their homes are being demolished. Simply making it based on law doesn't make it right.
(and before you go up in arms saying "but I don't see them doing that to the jews!" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/14/israeli-forces-illegal-west-bank-settlement-destroy-houses)
Isolated incidents. Again, compare the scale of Israeli illegal settlement by international law, to Palestinian illegal settlement by international law. We aren't talking about Israeli law, we are talking about international law and human rights.
Show me a case from the last 20 years, where a dude who committed a terror attack against Palestinians didn't get thrown into jail for a long period of time.
Israelis don't need to commit terror attacks on the Palestinians. They have all the power, they have conventional force to apply. They have artillery and rockets that are highly effective against the low-tech Palestinians. Terrorism is a weapon of the weak, more than the strong.
Also, funny that you say 20 years. That's the amount of time you can get for simply throwing a stone. Cruel and unusual punishment indeed.