""Why did they not come forward, like many of their comrades, until long after the events and the enquiries?""

You are either incredibly naive, or incredibly dim and I can't quite decide which.

If you are a soldier, blowing the whistle on your superiors is the road to a life of absolute hell, so of course they waited till they were out of the IDF to come forward. They also had families and pensions to protect.

You, mister, would have done exactly the same thing.

The fact that they did come forward after waiting so long, and express their horror, shows just how traumatic those events were, and an arrogant shit with an agenda calls them liars out of hand.

That says a lot more about you than about them.

Don T.