• Israeli soldier posed with bound Arab
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[quote=yahoonews] JERUSALEM – A former Israeli soldier posted photos on Facebook of herself in uniform smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners, drawing sharp criticism Monday from the Israeli military and Palestinian officials. Israeli news websites and blogs showed two photographs of the woman. In one, she is sitting legs crossed beside a blindfolded Palestinian man who is slumped against a concrete barrier. His face is turned downwards, while she leans toward him with her face upturned. Another shows her smiling at the camera with three Palestinian men with bound hands and blindfolds behind her. The incident was a reminder of the fraught relations between Israeli soldiers and the West Bank Palestinians under their control. Israeli soldiers have run into trouble on the social media sites like Facebook and YouTube before. Most recently a group of combat soldiers were reprimanded for breaking into choreographed dance moves while on patrol in the West Bank town of Hebron. The dance featured prominently on YouTube. Palestinian Authority spokesman Ghassan Khatib condemned the photos and said they pointed to a deeper malaise — how Israel's 43-year-old occupation of Palestinians has affected the Israelis who enforce it. "This shows the mentality of the occupier," Khatib said, "to be proud of humiliating Palestinians. The occupation is unjust, immoral and, as these pictures show, corrupting." The Israeli military also criticized the young woman, who Israeli news media and bloggers identified from her Facebook page as Eden Aberjil of the southern Israeli port town of Ashdod. No official confirmed her identity. "These are disgraceful photos," said Capt. Barak Raz, an Israeli military spokesman. "Aside from matters of information security, we are talking about a serious violation of our morals and our ethical code and should this soldier be serving in active duty today, I would imagine that no doubt she would be court-martialed immediately," he told Associated Press Television News. It was not clear whether the army could punish the woman, because she has finished her compulsory military service. The comments by the woman and her friend in an exchange below one photograph suggested how casually the picture was treated, including jokes and sexual innuendoes. "You're the sexiest like that," her friend wrote. "I wonder if he's got Facebook!" the woman in the photograph responded. "I have to tag him in the picture!" Aberjil did not respond to reporters' questions Monday. The photographs were a reminder of snapshots taken in 2003 by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq that showed Iraqi detainees naked, humiliated and terrified. In that case, some soldiers went to prison after the photos came to light. The photographs of the Israeli soldier and the Palestinians, by contrast, show no overt physical abuse or coercion of the prisoners, although they are ridiculed in the comments between the soldier and her friends. Palestinians are routinely handcuffed and blindfolded when they are arrested to stop them from trying to flee. [/quote] Source: [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100816/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians_facebook[/url] Btw, if you want an argument, do not turn this into Jews vs Arabs......but I can't do shit anyway..........
Why do soldiers do this? I am doing something which may or may not be taken out of context as incredibly horrible. TO FACEBOOK
Oh for fuck's sake :doh: Awesome...I hate Israel even more :v:
Got to tag him on facebook so his entire family can see!
[QUOTE=Swilly;24126265]Oh for fuck's sake :doh: Awesome...I hate Israel even more :v:[/QUOTE] This isn't a reason to hate Isreal, It is not determinable by this article alone whether this is a common practice. The person you should be hating is the soldier.
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;24126281]This isn't a reason to hate Isreal, It is not determinable by this article alone whether or not this is a common thing. The person you should be hating is the soldier.[/QUOTE] Yeah, but they just soooo deserve my hate...(joke)
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;24126281]This isn't a reason to hate Isreal, It is not determinable by this article alone whether this is a common practice. The person you should be hating is the soldier.[/QUOTE] they've done a lot of bad shit this is just another nail in the coffin
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;24126281]This isn't a reason to hate Isreal, It is not determinable by this article alone whether this is a common practice. The person you should be hating is the soldier.[/QUOTE] I watched on CNN about this. She was a soldier last year, and was discharged for finishing up her term. She just now posted these pictures, alone from the IDF. The IDF is having a hard time deciding whether they can prosecute her or not, because technically she's no longer a soldier, and posted them while she was not serving.
[QUOTE=JDK721v2;24126301]they've done a lot of bad shit this is just another nail in the coffin[/QUOTE] Where's your stupid "Death to Israel" call?
Beyond shameful.
They punished the guys who did the dance routine? What the hell for? It was just a bit of fun and the only people who complained would have complained about anything.
I lol'd.
Sick cunt. [QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;24126321]I watched on CNN about this. She was a soldier last year, and was discharged for finishing up her term. She just now posted these pictures, alone from the IDF. The IDF is having a hard time deciding whether they can prosecute her or not, because technically she's no longer a soldier, and posted them while she was not serving.[/QUOTE] Sadly, they aren't allowed to do anything. [QUOTE=Devodiere;24126389]They punished the guys who did the dance routine? What the hell for? It was just a bit of fun and the only people who complained would have complained about anything.[/QUOTE] Because they were ignoring combat routine policy in a hostile area.
Also from what I heard from CNN - She apparently posted a comment on one of the pics of the prisoners with, "I wonder if he is on Facebook, I have to see if I can tag him." Really disgusting.
My sister worked where she did and she never did something that disgusting to the Palestinians. edit: The ex-soldier says she uploaded the pictures as a joke (why would you take such pictures in the first place you fat cow?).
[QUOTE=DogGunn;24126322]Where's your stupid "Death to Israel" call?[/QUOTE] where's your trying to justify this?
[QUOTE=ohadje;24126551]My sister worked where she did and she never did something that disgusting to the Palestinians. edit: The ex-soldier says she uploaded the pictures as a joke (why would you take such pictures in the first place you fat cow?).[/QUOTE] what the fuck? how can that be construed as funny?
[QUOTE=JDK721v2;24126693]where's your trying to justify this?[/QUOTE] It's not justifiable. This type of shit happens in conflicts though.
When you're a hick... Oh, btw, the army banned her from serving in a reserve force (although it's more like a gift than punishment :|).
[QUOTE=JDK721v2;24126693]where's your trying to justify this?[/QUOTE] The Israeli military is trying to prosecute her despite not being in the armed forces any more, they have condemned her disrespectful attitude towards prisoners and the pictures themselves are far more tame than the Abu Ghraib pictures. I think they have done a fair bit to make this right.
According to [url=http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/145/585.html?hp=1&loc=1&tmp=6514]this[/url] (Hebrew), she has gotten life threats because of the pics :|
I kinda felt bad for her because she doesn't seem to think she's done anything wrong. Then I saw her photo. [img]http://www.nrg.co.il/images//archive/300x225/1/257/805.jpg[/img] Smug bitch deserves everything she gets.
The Palestinians' faces are covered in the original pic... I don't understand why they are censored.
[QUOTE=ohadje;24126957]The Palestinians' faces are covered in the original pic... I don't understand why they are censored.[/QUOTE] So they don't get punished by their own people incase they "cooperated" with the Israeli Govt or forces.
They were arrested/detained, can't see how this can be classified as cooperating.
I could care less about this incident. They were just posing in front of bound people. However, I find this fucking disgusting instead: [IMG]http://gyazo.com/7310ec9c47b2d4bfd2dcbe6eac49ab56.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=ohadje;24127055]They were arrested/detained, can't see how this can be classified as cooperating.[/QUOTE] They could be taken away for processing... who knows, and who understands the Palestinian Territories Government and decision making anyway? And Starpluck, ?
[QUOTE=DogGunn;24127171] And Starpluck, ?[/QUOTE] Got something to say?
Yah, you hotlinked from Anvari.org and no-one can see it.
[QUOTE=starpluck;24127179]Got something to say?[/QUOTE] I'm going to guess it was an image, but what you posted is just a logo.
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