My "The Isrealis aren't much better" was about their lack of P.R. competency when it comes to "selling" their message in the mass media. Not their behaviour in war.
That should have been pretty obvious.
The Israelis didn't fall the P.R. crap the Bosnian Gov't came out with. The Isrealis knew what was and is at stake in Bosnia.
But the Clinton and Bush Junior administrations fell for it (to borrow one of your phrases) "hook, line and sinker".
And on 9-11 they found out what it costs to be naive and gullible.