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Why Israelis are defending IDF soldier who shot Palestinian attacker
Ben Caspit
March 28, 2016
A short video filmed by a resident of the West Bank city of Hebron March 24 has been shaking
Israel’s political, public and military foundations for four days now. The video
ignited a battle between the Israeli right and the left, inflamed much of the
Israeli public against the top brass of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), set six
government ministers against Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot and generated another down-and-dirty confrontation between
Education Minister Naftali Bennett and Defense Minister Moshe (Bogie) Ya’alon
together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Outside this inner circle, Yisrael Beitenu chair Avigdor
Liberman mocked them both.
Above the fray hovers an emotional storm among millions of
Israelis who refuse to accept international conventions while they trample on
the rule of law and moral values. They defend an isolated soldier who shot a neutralized attacker in the head in Hebron and is now being indicted for
murder.
This is not only a war between right and left, but between
emotions and reason, between one’s boiling blood and political
correctness.http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/03/israel-public-idf-soldier-new-hero-hebron-palestinian-shot.html
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