By Ted Belman
I support the soldier, Eden Abergil . There is nothing wrong with taking pictures of handcuffed and blindfolded terrorists. There is nothing wrong with including your self in the forefront of such pictures. There is nothing wrong in posting such pictures on Facebook.
There is something wrong with the IDF responding to the over reactions of Arabs and others by dumping on the soldier. Instead the IDF should be attacking the attackers and showing their hypocracy and double standards. Please a little perspective.
I don’t see that the terrorists were “humiliated”. Even if they were so what?
How much the IDF is acting like US Armed Forces in throwing innocent soldiers to the wolves to keep PC. It must be a ‘Western” cultural thing.
IDF Rejects Disgraceful Behavior by Former Soldier (Israel Defense Forces)
I am very dissapointed the the reaction of the IDF
I completely agree with you Ted. If only there was so much focus and outrage from the western media regarding Russia’s announcement that it is accelerating Iran’s drive toward nuclear weapons.
I actually have no problem with the former IDF soldier’s picture, but that’s beside the point. The New York Times and other media outlets will elevate any trivial incident regarding Israel to a major news story. There is nothing remotely newsworthy about the Facebook photo of a former IDF soldier posing with prisoners. Why would major news outlets even bother with this non-story? Because they have an obsessive hatred of Israel and are hoping to stoke further worldwide anti-Israel passions. Meanwhile the NYT doesn’t think rauf’s ties to terrorism and his radical views are important enough for its readers to know.
Every time the western media puts a spotlight on Israel’s or America’s conduct of our defense against islamic jihadis, they are aiding and abetting the global jihad.
And the Israeli government must stop responding with outrage against its own whenever situations like this come up. Instead they ought to shrug it off as the trivial non-event it really is and stop playing into their enemies hands.
There is no comparison between what this soldier did and what they did in Abu Graib. That’s the point.
To put this in perspective, recall that America judges herself by that same standard which the world is judging Israel on this issue and which standard Israel accepts for herself.
Recall the controversy over photographs (& other alleged abuses) taken by American soldiers of captured Iraqi insurgents at Abu Gharab prison in Iraq. From Wikipedia the following summary is available: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse
I didn’t know that. But they aren’t prisoners of war they are non combatants or terrorists.