A week since the commando disaster in the Jordan Valley, we are still following the false narrative of "a tragic bilateral incident happened to us", instead of looking reality in the eye and saying: "There is a war with the Bedouin, weapons are being stolen from us at military bases in the heart of the country.
Let's act accordingly. "Most readers do not know what I'm talking about - after all, the heart of the discourse revolved around an accident that happened, something related to lack of coordination. Takes place.
If I now approach the base of the commando, not to steal a means of night vision but simply to give the soldier a sandwich - keep me away. If I manage to seduce the soldier and he takes the sandwich - keep him away too. If I arrive on another day and I will be hired to pick up where a range is being conducted - I am detained for questioning, and rightly so. If I steal weapons, I get entangled. If I bring my whole family or even the settlement - well, of course I will never reach such a criminal peak - I and my friends and neighbors will be arrested, long, long before.
So how is it that not only between soldiers and commanders but also reservists, everyone knows that thefts committed by Bedouins from our bases are a procedure?
A routine in which weapons, equipment, and even IDF vehicles are stolen from our soldiers - is a law bread that the army restrains. At most, it changes the opening fire regulations - and this too, we saw this week, only serves as a topic of discussion.
The army is not to blame, the police are not to blame, what are they supposed to do when the commander's spirit instructs the Bedouin how to get behind the wheel?
If IDF soldiers are to be holy in their lives as well, we will need less of the sanctity of their deaths, and less of excuses and explanations. : "Again a safety incident in the commando brigade", and this time: a soldier kicked a grenade. This theoretical sequence is enough to blacken the name of an elite unit,
Recent events point to a problematic overall look that buries its head in the sand, and even though the smoke has risen in the valley it is used to burning through tires in the Negev.
There is also an analogy problem here.
Procedures refuse to digest that a means of night vision stolen today is likely to meet us in the form of a soldier killed the next day.
Or in a year.
Or indirectly.
In a report in the Hebron sector in November 2011, when Rabbi Dan Merzbach was accidentally killed by Israeli headlines, Israeli headlines sought to deal with the poor soldier Shira and the foggy conditions along the way. To link the release of terrorists with the weapons that will be directed at us immediately and the practice on the ground? Less does it for us, preferring to talk about reports and compassion.
If we were honest with ourselves, the disaster in the Jordan Valley was the watershed for the scandal of thefts from bases, and for the presence of lowly and dangerous thieves near our soldiers.
They are the best boys we have, even when they have a pulse, aren't they?
This war should be framed as a war, and act accordingly.
Because if until now we have not done enough, now we will be paralyzed.
What soldier would shoot a Bedouin after this incident, even if he felt life-threatening?
Thefts will continue and foreigners will roam near military bases.
The fear among the soldiers will deepen as long as the main points of inquiry continue to be "why they did not coordinate", and not why people walk in the heart of the State of Israel near ranges and steal weapons, so much so that military personnel can not move on to the agenda.
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