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"Want to please left-wing organizations": IDF did not respond to fighters - and provoked outrage | Israel Today

2021-10-10T10:31:31.634Z


Paratroopers fighting in the Yitzhar sector helped harvest grapes in the vineyard of a reserve officer who was wounded by terrorists. • An IDF spokesman responded: C. Surrenders to Progressive Anti-Settlement Moods "


A storm arose today (Sunday) after the IDF shunned the activities of fighters in Yitzhar on behalf of a resident who was injured in the attack, and claimed that they acted not in accordance with the procedures, even though this is a voluntary act in the vineyard of an Israeli resident.

A reporter from the Carmela Menashe Public Broadcasting Corporation published this morning that paratroopers serving near Yitzhar chose as part of the "Education and Heritage" project to help harvest grapes in the vineyard of Ariel Ben Sheetrit, a reserve officer who was wounded by terrorists a few months ago.

The fighters were on a half-day respite and decided as part of the mission to help harvest grapes in the officer's vineyard, which he could not do due to his injury.

However, the IDF chose to disregard the actions and claim that this was a "malfunction in the capture." Menashe quoted a senior officer and wrote that soldiers should not have rubbed shoulders with the population they are guarding. "The team chose to volunteer in agricultural activities. After the case was investigated, it became clear that the volunteering was carried out not in accordance with the orders as required. Procedures were refined on the subject."

The remarks made on behalf of the IDF provoked great anger among right-wing Knesset members, who claimed that this was a loss of the IDF's way. This is not the first time that anger has erupted against the IDF. A few weeks ago, the army chose to condemn the confrontation between left-wing activists and SMGD on Mount Hebron, and even reprimanded him. "The officer erred and acted in a way that was not committed to reality and did not conform to IDF norms," ​​they claimed regarding the fact that the officer pushed the left-wing activist. "In light of this, it was decided that the officer would be reprimanded by his commanders."

The chairman of the Religious Zionist Party, MK Bezalel Smutrich, reacted angrily to this morning's publication, sending a letter to Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi and the commander of the Central Command, Major General Yehuda Fox. An IDF spokesman who shunned the fighters.

"What infuriated me was the response of the IDF Spokesman, who aligned himself with the reporter's agenda against settlement, formulated in an apologetic tone and adopted the narrative that the connection between IDF fighters and settlers 'whom they are supposed to guard' is negative and invalid."

MK Smutrich. Blames the ombudsman, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

"In all honesty, this is a response that reflects a loss of way. Settlement and security have been intertwined since the early days of Zionism. Which are stationed in the area in order to preserve the settlement and the State of Israel. "Agricultural activity of holding on to the land of the country is one hundred percent in line with the founding ethos of the IDF and the Zionist enterprise." The IDF is not the UN army.

"It is difficult to remain indifferent in light of the asymmetry between the positive way in which the IDF views volunteer activity of IDF soldiers with infiltrators and migrant workers in south Tel Aviv, as reflected in reports from time to time, and the negative attitude toward said agricultural assistance.

Activity among the infiltrators is hotly debated, and on the face of it - unlike Zionist settlement agricultural activity - it is not in any way related to the purpose and goals of the IDF. "And his spokesman. It is difficult to escape the feeling that the DUT has succumbed to progressive anti-settlement attitudes that are blowing in the media and among left-wing organizations and seeks to please them, even at the cost of cutting off the industry on which it sits."

Source: israelhayom

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