Ted Belman. There was nothing excessive about it. What the fuck is “bad language”? The confrontation is not taking place in a court room. It disappoints that the IDF continues to persecute and prosecute its own soldiers. It disappoints that the IDf continues to give provocateurs the white-gloved treatment.
Kfir Brigade Commander punishes soldiers for ‘excessive force’ and bad language during videotaped arrest.
The Kfir Brigade Commander, Col. Asher Ben Lulu, has completed an inquiryinto the incident Friday in which IDF soldiers overpowered an Arab rioter at the village of Jilazoun, in the Binyamin region.
The inquiry determined that the decision to arrest the rioter was correct and legitimate, but the arrest was carried out “improperly.”
The battalion commander was court-martialed and reprimanded.
Two of the soldiers involved were sentenced to a suspended sentence of 28 days’ lockup for use of excessive force.
A third soldier involved in the incident was sentenced to remain on base for 30 days without leave because he hurled curses at the rioter.
The inquiry determined that the riot Friday had been a violent one, which lasted for several hours. Arabs hurled firebombs, boulders and rocks at the soldiers. A company commander was evacuated in the course of the riot after a rock hit his face, with a possible fracture in his eye socket.
The Arab who is seen in the video approached the soldiers in order to create a provocation. He did not heed the soldiers’ instructions to halt and grabbed hold of the weapon of one of the commanders, who then decided to use force to arrest him. He can be seen touching the gun of one of the soldiers in the video.
The video shows how little deterrence IDF soldiers currently wield vis-a-vis violent rioters, who know that they can approach armed soldiers with impunity, as long as events are videotaped by other rioters or leftist sympathizers. The soldiers, on the other hand, know that any use of force will lead to their being court-martialled.
It’s time for Israel to stop slavishly imitating this country,particularly in the treatment of enemies and adopt common sense responses to Arab terrorism and riots. But under Israeli leftists this will probably never happen.
Now I ask you all. Is this a “military” that will stop Iran or defeat ISIS? I will do all I can to prevent my kids from tainting themselves on that cesspool. Only for REAL wars and ONLY to win those wars. Totally.
And the present Oslo flotsam in command will never do that. They prefer to assault Jews…
That’s why IDF soldiers don’t actively put down riots.
They know the brass won’t back them so why bother?
Arabs know they have nothing to fear from violent confrontations with the IDF.