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.
The soldier should be court martialed for not firing a warning shot in the air.
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
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.
ReplyDeleteThey need to break a few heads.
ReplyDelete'Lishbor et haraglaim' to break the legs -- yitzchak rabin about the first 'intifada'.
ReplyDeleteHeads, legs, I'm not particular.
ReplyDeleteThere's pictures on the internet showing this kid's cast moving from arm to arm. Makes you wonder...
ReplyDeleteImagine what the NY police would do if rocks were thrown at them.
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