This is from an essay called 'Armageddon is Well Located' in
Chomsky's 'Towards a New Cold War'.

"General Mordechai Gur was asked, in an interview in the Independence Day Supplement to Al Hamishmar, to comment on the reported practices of the Israeli Army in Lebanon, including plunder and demolition of houses "even with no sign that they had been occupied by terrorists." His response came as a shock even to the noted Israeli military analyst Zeev Schiff, who gave this accurate summary: "In South Lebanon we struck the civilian population con­sciously, because they deserved it . . . the importance of Gur's remarks is the admission that the Israeli Army has always struck civilian popula­tions, purposely and consciously . . . the Army, he said, has never distin­guished civilian [from military] targets . . . [but] purposely attacked civilian targets even when Israeli settlements had not been struck." Gur recalled that during his thirty-year service the Israeli Army had looted extensively after its attacks on Jaffa and Haifa in April 1948, had bombed Arab villages and the Jordanian city of lrbid, finally clearing the Jordan Valley of all inhabitants, and had driven a million and a half civilians from the Suez Canal area during the 1970 "war of attrition." "For 30 years, from the War of Independence until today, we have been fight­ing against a population that lives in villages and cities."

The most moral army in the Middle East.

That quote is from 1978. Nothing has changed, it would appear.