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...rebel soldiers were sentenced to between 14 and 28 days in the brig and removed from combat duty. "This is a phenomenon that endangers the basis on which the IDF ([Israeli Defense Forces] operates, as an army of the people in a democratic country, and its obligations to carry out the tasks assigned to it," said General Gadi Shamni, chief of the Central Command...
...West Bank. Although it appears he has already been amply corrected through the comments on your online edition, maybe your readers will be equally open to reading the words of Israelis who share the growing horror for the human rights abuses that are carried out daily by the IDF. Try Tanya Reinhart’s recent Road Map to Nowhere perhaps; or if the unadorned words of ordinary Israeli citizens are preferred, take for example this former IDF soldier: “I didn’t humiliate Palestinians most of the time, but I stood by and did nothing...
...town. Even Green Left—Australia’s “leading radical newspaper”—reports that prior to 2006, the Israeli army had not entered the town since mid-2004. In the last year, there have been several operations in which the IDF entered Balata seeking known or suspected terrorists who had either carried out attacks on Israel or collaborated with others who had, but the claim that the IDF enters the town almost every night is an exaggeration, if not an outright...
...When the IDF does take police action, it is to prevent terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and the state. Tahreer, one of the photographers, states in the Picture Balata slideshow that the IDF “kill[s] fighters who defend the camp against the occupation.” If there were no weapons in the town, and if there were no bomb makers in the town, and if there were no militants in the town, the IDF would likely leave it alone. It is always difficult in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to establish causality and blame, but offering shelter...
Picture Balata perpetrated these falsehoods and propaganda to convince Americans that the Israelis are the “terrorists,” that the surgical strikes of the IDF are equivalent to the Palestinian suicide bombings, and that police actions which are necessary to maintain the stability of the region are worse than the indiscriminate murder of women and children. Tahreer photographs “martyrs…because they are our heroes.” Those who murder innocent Israelis only provoke violence. Those who harbor these murders deserve to be treated like the criminals they are. While...