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NGO Monitor does not buy the idea that Yesh Din’s criticism is more moderate or focused.

According to NGO Monitor, NGOs like Yesh Din are fundamentally problematic from the outset, as they are heavily funded by the EU and other groups trying to delegitimize Israel.

A counter-report from the group noted that the EU gave 150,000 euros (64 percent of the Yesh Din report total funding) to Yesh Din to “change Israeli policy” regarding the “criminal accountability of Israeli Security Forces Personnel.”

NGO Monitor also notes that the Turkel Report essentially said that adding a list of specific war-crime-related charges (instead of just prosecuting soldiers under “regular” crimes like murder, manslaughter) would be “best practices,” or an improvement to a system already complying with international law.

NGO Monitor blasts Yesh Din for arguing that failure to add an additional list of crimes could signal that the system is broken, opening the state to having its officials/soldiers brought before the ICC.

NGO Monitor notes the 1988 incident of IDF Col. Yehuda Meir, who was prosecuted and convicted for crimes committed by soldiers under his command even though there was no specific crime for “command responsibility,” as a sign that the current system is sufficient.