But you better recognize that there isn't too much that differentiates you from those snipers

Hard disagree; the snipers, much like most of the IDF, despise Palestinians and don't see them as humans. Saying it's a problem of following orders blindly is like saying the KKK had a problem of people following orders blindly. During peaceful protests the IDF competed with who could shoot the most knees; this is not a following orders problem, it's a nature of settler colonial society problem.