The Israeli military said Tuesday it is launching an investigation into a video that surfaced on YouTube that showed what appeared to be an Israeli soldier dancing around a blindfolded and bound Palestinian prisoner.
The video is the latest in a number of social media controversies that have engulfed the Israeli military. This summer, a female former Israeli soldier posted photos of herself posing in front of blindfolded Palestinian prisoners. The photos and her subsequent defense of her actions sparked international criticism of the military.
It was not known when the latest video was shot, but it appears to have been posted to the video-sharing website in 2008.
The clip, which first aired Monday night on Israel’s Channel 10, shows a man dressed in Israeli army fatigues dancing next to a blindfolded woman.
In a statement, the Israeli military said it “denounces actions such as those depicted in the videos, and continues to make every effort to eliminate such behavior through briefings to soldiers, directives to officers, military orders, and punishment when necessary.”
The statement also stressed that such incidents are “isolated cases that do not represent the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) as a whole.”
Ghassan Khatib, a spokesman for the Palestinian Authority, said the video was “a disgusting illustration of the sick and hostile mentality of the Israeli soldiers serving as occupiers in the Palestinian territories.”
“It should remind the whole world that it is about time to end this illegal occupation and to allow the Palestinians their basic right of freedom,” he said.
In August, the pictures posted on Facebook by a female former soldier — identified online as “Eden from Ashdod” in Israel — prompted harsh reactions.
In one photo, she is seen smiling and sitting on a blast barrier next to a blindfolded man. In another, she is sitting in front of three blindfolded Palestinians, one with his hands tied in front of him.
The photos have since been removed from her Facebook site, but Israeli media reports the photos were labeled “IDF — best time of my life.”
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THIS was disgusting???
Inappropriate possibly, but disgusting?
–What IS disgusting is arabs LYNCHING Israeli soldiers and then displaying their hands dripping with Israeli blood!!!
–What IS disgusting is yishmaelim putting on the web their cutting the heads off of innocent news people!!!
–What IS disgusting is Chechniyin moslems shooting hundreds of children in a school!!!
–What IS disgusting is Yishmaelim blowing up buses and pizza stores full of innocent people!!!
—–DANCING around a prisoner is supposed to create an upsetting international incident?!? NOT TO ME!!!
I am afraid that the IDF is starting to suffer from the battle fatigue that is being exacerbated by the political correct crowd in the government.
What’s the truth in this video?
Perhaps, as Reuter displays the news, some Arabs dressed in IDF fatiques (which can bought on Ben Yehuda Street)and posting it online to increase Jewish Hatred.
And if it is accurate, a wrong decision-bad action on part of the Israeli yet NO COMPARISON to stabbing, cutting with glass, beheading, stoning or killing Jews with tractors.