It’s like the boy who called “wolf” but there’s a huge wolf and there’s always been a wolf.

You’re talking about some fairy-land stories with rainbow ponies where there is no evil anyway.

I realise that what I’m talking about isn’t working in the IDF but your analogies are not right.

The military isn’t one person who’s turning themself in. It’s an organisation of many people so nobody would be punishing themselves.

It’s like a cashier being caught stealing from the cash drawer. They don’t punish themselves, their employer punishes them and possibly reports them to the police for further punishment.

That’s how it’s supposed to work but isn’t in this case because the whole military is on the same page.

Do you expect them to prosecute themselves?

That is sort of how it’s supposed to work, yes. That’s how it’s supposed to work in any organisation.

A person doing a bad thing that gets reported should be investigated internally. They should take appropriate action based upon that investigation. The investigator(s) should be looking to protect the organisation by rooting out the bad apples.

Unfortunately, when too much of the barrel is bad the bad apples protect each other instead of the organisation.

In this case, so much of the organisation is bad that protecting the organisation requires that the bad apples be protected and shit gets covered up.