IDF suspends soldiers involved in death of Palestinian.

[Scurrilous]

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=365859&contrassID=1&subContrassID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

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"A preliminary Israel Defense Forces probe into the
killing of a Palestinian officer by IDF fire in
the Gaza Strip on Friday revealed that the
soldiers involved in the incident did not act in
accordance with military regulations."

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"The soldiers had fired warning
shots after a crowd gathered
near the security fence of
the settlement of Dugit in the northern Gaza Strip. The Palestinian
officer was killed as a result of the fire.

Palestinian sources said the officer, who was
not wearing an official uniform, approached the
fence unarmed in order to rescue a mentally ill
man who wandered near the fence, Israel Radio
reported."

This is a tragic story. The officer who risked his life to rescue that mentally ill man is a hero. Let's hope this incident isn't swept under the rug and that the IDF soldiers who violated military regulations in this shooting are properly punished.

[wtmusic]

1. Rachel Corrie part 2

No one will be punished

[drdon326]

2. As opposed to...

EVERY terrorist attack that is swept under the rug and that the PA
at least ignore and at most support in this crimes against humanity
and name streets and soccer teams after them.

OH, But thats right, the terrorists, being the murdering thugs that they are, arent expected to be held to the same standards, are they?

Do i have that about right??

[Resistance]

3. which terrorists you talking about

the IDF or Hamas?

[drdon326]

4. Thats cute....

but then again i dont equate suicide bombers and the
IDF trying to prevent them.

[Resistance]

5. terrorists are not cute

murdering Palestinian civilians is just as awful as murdering Israeli ones. I do hope that one day you'll realize this.

[dai]

6. If the IDF should not be...

...held to a higher standard than Palestinian terrorists, which is what you are suggesting in your previous post, then it is natural to equate the two.

[Violet_Crumble]

9. Yep, I noticed that too...

There was a bit of a contradiction in those two posts....


Violet...

[Violet_Crumble]

8. So the killing of this man should be swept under the carpet?

I don't believe the death of anyone in this conflict should be swept under the carpet. Yr post comes across as a lot like 'but if they do it, we can do it too. Nyah nyah!!'

Strangely enough, I do expect a different set of behaviour from a well-trained military force like the IDF than I do for a group of terrorists, and I find it weird that people sit there with straight faces and 'demand' that terrorists (y'know, those folk who attack civilians and not military targets. You've said elsewhere that you think attacks on the IDF is terrorism, so I thought I'd clear that up) must work to the same set of rules as a traditional military force. Well, d'uh. As if those terrorists are going to listen and think to themselves: 'Listen fellow terrorists. drdon at DU demands we clean up our act and behave the same way as the IDF. No more suicide-bombings for us. In future we stick strictly to shooting haphazardly in the direction of children and when we get one we'll trot out a story about how it was an accident and we were only chasing a 90 yr old terrorist, whose home we have scheduled for demolition later this afternoon. We can even say we're looking into the incident, and if the media won't leave us alone, we might have to slap one of you on the wrist and give you a suspended sentence! There's advantages to being held to the same standards as the IDF too. We can now drive over foreign peace activists with bulldozers and shoot those pesky British journalists that keep on coming here, and we can even hold our own internal investigations into them and then clear ourselves of any wrongdoing! drdon's going to be so chuffed over this new-look Hamas built in the Moral Mode of the IDF!!'


Nyuck, nyuck...

Violet...

[bluesoul]

10. Excellent point

Violet! ;)

[Gimel]

11. So they are legitimate

in your estimation. Terrorists are free to act like terrorists because they are not trained military units. Right? They are legitimate in their own "rules". It doesn't matter to you that their "rules" are agains all civilized norms. Against the Geneva Conventions. Just push them aside as, well... those terorists don't listen to anyone anyway. Violet said so.

[Darranar]

12. That's not what she said.

[tinnypriv]

7. Expecting punishment is pushing it, but suspension is better than nothing