Een goed plan. De foto's zijn meer dan smakeloos, en geven vriend en vijand het idee dat het leger het niet zo nauw neemt met de regels, en soldaten wreed en onmenselijk zijn. Dat het maar om kleine aantallen gaat, dat jongeren met teveel testosteron overal dingen doen die niet kunnen, zeker in moeilijke situaties als in een leger, en dat andere legers het er bepaald niet beter vanaf brengen, dat alles wordt maar al te graag vergeten. Er staat nou eenmaal continu een vergrootglas op Israel.
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MK proposes punishing IDF soldiers photographed humiliating Palestinians
Proposal follows a string of pictures and videos that have surfaced on the Internet in recent months' Hanegbi defends bill as method of deterring soldiers from behavior that damages the army and the country.
By News Agencies
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/mk-proposes-punishing-idf-soldiers-photographed-humiliating-palestinians-1.321470
MK Tzachi Hanegbi proposed Wednesday a bill to punish Israel Defense Forces soldiers photographed mistreating Palestinians - even if their crimes are discovered years later.
Hanegbi defended the proposal as a method of deterring soldiers from behavior that damages the army and the country.
His proposal follows a string of pictures and videos that have surfaced on the Internet in recent months, showing soldiers humiliating Palestinians. The latest photo, released this week, shows a soldier pointing a rifle at the face of a bound and blindfolded Palestinian man.
Most of the offending soldiers have not been reprimanded because they had already been discharged when the photos were published.
According to the current law, soldiers discharged more than six months ago cannot be prosecuted. The new bill would allow prosecution for up to five years after discharge.
A former soldier raised a storm on the internet this summer after posting photographs of herself posing next to blindfold Palestinian prisoners on Facebook.
Photographs uploaded by Eden Abergil from Ashdod and labeled "IDF - the best time of my life" show her smiling next to Palestinian prisoners with their hands bound and their eyes covered. She defended her actions as having been "taken in good faith, there was no statement in them."
Breaking the Silence, a rights group comprising IDF veterans, said following that incident that the norms the photos allegedly expose were the "necessary result of a long-term military control of a civilian population."
Hanegbi defended the proposal as a method of deterring soldiers from behavior that damages the army and the country.
His proposal follows a string of pictures and videos that have surfaced on the Internet in recent months, showing soldiers humiliating Palestinians. The latest photo, released this week, shows a soldier pointing a rifle at the face of a bound and blindfolded Palestinian man.
Most of the offending soldiers have not been reprimanded because they had already been discharged when the photos were published.
According to the current law, soldiers discharged more than six months ago cannot be prosecuted. The new bill would allow prosecution for up to five years after discharge.
A former soldier raised a storm on the internet this summer after posting photographs of herself posing next to blindfold Palestinian prisoners on Facebook.
Photographs uploaded by Eden Abergil from Ashdod and labeled "IDF - the best time of my life" show her smiling next to Palestinian prisoners with their hands bound and their eyes covered. She defended her actions as having been "taken in good faith, there was no statement in them."
Breaking the Silence, a rights group comprising IDF veterans, said following that incident that the norms the photos allegedly expose were the "necessary result of a long-term military control of a civilian population."
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