Reply #18: Arab MK: Even Mussolini's soldiers didn't act like IDF [View All]

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Left-wing politicians respond to arrest of IDF fighters on suspicion of abusing Palestinian detainees, as reported by Ynet. Meretz Chairman Beilin: This is a systematic problem rather than a local one. 'This proves that the occupation corrupts,' says Hadash MK Khenin

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3504516,00.html

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"This is a systematic problem rather than a local one, Meretz Chairman Yossi Beilin said Friday following the arrest of three IDF fighters on suspicion of abusing Palestinian detainees, as reported by Ynet.

"The defense minister and the IDF chief of staff must address this problem as a serious failure of the system and not settle for the IDF spokesperson's explanations on a local treatment," Knesset Member Beilin added.

Ynet learned Friday that three IDF soldiers belonging to the Haruv battalion of the Kfir Brigade were detained Wednesday by Military Police investigators on suspicion of beating up two Palestinian boys and placing a heater against the face of one of them.

MK Beilin said in response to the report, "The IDF is paying a terrible price today due to the ongoing occupation, which is both expressed in the failures of the Second Lebanon War and in the army's moral image – as reflected in this recent incident.

"Even before providing a diplomatic solution, the IDF must save itself both from its operational and from its ethical collapse."