wat0n wrote:I'd say his intention is, perhaps, that Palestinian kids provoke soldiers into making them to arrest them while someone tapes the whole event (so it can be used against Israel in the PR arena) or something like that. This isn't a new allegation.
Just helps prove my point, its all about making one side or the other, look bad. The Palestinians have done it, the Settlers have done it, the NGO's have done it. This is a conflict in which there is no ethical or moral high ground anymore.
wat0n wrote:Of course, one could just say soldiers are supposed to be professional and refrain from giving them that PR material, if they won't go the Russian way in Chechnya or the Indian way in Kashmir and ban all media and internet access to the region.
I agree with Layman, soldiers are not Police Officers. Their not trained to fulfill the role of civil authority in the way police officers are.
layman wrote:Soldiers make bad policemen. Israeli soldiers seem suprisingly constrained in most situations.
Imagine an American cop in the same situations.
Imagine any street cop in the same situation, their not going to let that kind of thing slip by. But yes, given what I have seen Israeli troops deal with, and the stories I've had from a friend who used to guard settlers in Hebron, IDF soldiers put up with a lot of crap.