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When you are looking at someone down the scope of a gun, you do not see a kidnapper, or a mudered. You see a person. That is not a moral judgment. It is a deep instinctual inpulse we have, enhanced by a lifetime of socialization, against killing people. Half of the point of military training is getting people to overcome tharmt base instinct.
As the commanders say, these soldiers have not had adequate training.
What does this have to do with Israel?
Russia is fighting a war against our ally in Ukraine, and has threatened to go nuclear.
China has been saber wrattling about Taiwan for ages and has been growing into a general geopolitical rival for years.
North Korea is … North Korea. There foreign policy has been “we can start a nuclear war if we want to for decades”.
Notably absent from the list is Iran, which is the non-US alligned country at risk of starting a major war over Isreal, and is a near nuclear power.