Sunday, August 30, 2015

Why does beating an IDF soldier prove that he was the aggressor?

Arutz 7     Unbelievable footage has emerged showing an IDF soldier being beaten by Arab women and children in the village of Nabi Salah, Samaria

The video is already being seen by some as proof that the army is having its hands effectively tied, both by increasingly restrictive instructions on how to handle violent Palestinian rioters, as well as by insufficient backup from the political echelons against legal campaigns by leftist NGOs targeting IDF soldiers.

Nabi Salah is a particularly extreme Palestinian Arab village, which also hosts large number of far-left foreign activists. Arab and foreign "activists" regularly stage provocations and violent riots targeting both nearby Jewish villagers and IDF forces.

The video shows IDF soldiers responding to a riot on Friday, with one soldier detaining a juvenile rock-thrower. However, the situation quickly escalates as he is gradually surrounded by a crowd, largely consisting of screeching women and children.

As the soldier calls for backup in dispersing the crowd, some of the women and youths begin punching and hitting him. Despite being armed and trained in hand-to-hand combat, he clearly feels unable to respond.


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7 comments :

  1. MiMedinat_HaYamAugust 30, 2015 at 11:22 PM

    The soldier should be court martialed for not firing a warning shot in the air.

    The commanders should be court martialed for sending a soldier into such a situation.

    The higher echelons should be court martialed for having such a policy.

    The arutz sheva article goes on to discuss how this should have been videotaped by tzahal to prevent publicity events like this.

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  2. elliotpasikAugust 31, 2015 at 5:23 PM

    It does seem like very poor execution. Any one of those women and children could have picked up one of those small rocks, lying on the side, and bashed in the unhelmetted soldier's head. Next, they grab his gun. A typical American cop would have smash-mouthed the first bystander who touched him - or maybe just shoot.

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  3. kishkeyumSeptember 1, 2015 at 1:41 AM

    They need to break a few heads.

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  4. MiMedinat_HaYamSeptember 1, 2015 at 4:23 AM

    'Lishbor et haraglaim' to break the legs -- yitzchak rabin about the first 'intifada'.

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  5. kishkeyumSeptember 1, 2015 at 5:39 PM

    Heads, legs, I'm not particular.

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  6. Garnel IronheartSeptember 1, 2015 at 9:01 PM

    There's pictures on the internet showing this kid's cast moving from arm to arm. Makes you wonder...

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  7. FWIWSeptember 1, 2015 at 9:51 PM

    Imagine what the NY police would do if rocks were thrown at them.

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