Two Israeli soldiers went on trial in a military court, because of using a nine-year-old Palestinian boy to check for booby-traps in Gaza war.
The two soldiers, both staff sergeants in the Givati infantry brigade, are charged with acting “in breach of military norms” for forcing the boy to open bags they feared might be rigged with explosives.
A defendant told that he felt he and his comrade were being made scapegoats for international outrage over Israel’s use of force in the offensive, in which about 1,400 Palestinians were killed, among them 400 minors.
“They were looking for someone to blame in front of the entire world,” the soldier said. “Sadly it was people who really didn’t do anything.”
The military said that it began its investigation of the incident in June. It said the probe was unrelated to a UN fact-finding mission which was visiting Gaza at the same time.
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So the Ottomans were not brutal butchers but Israel is. Come on now. The prime minister denies that the Ottoman’s were exterminators and converters but feels Israel’s tactics are to severe. Well if Turkish can treat Orthodox or any other Christians like animals why shouldn’t the western military do the same. It is the categorical imperative. If you do something to your enemy they will return the favor someday. So now Palestine is a poor innocent victim much like the Ottoman empire who was so humanitarian all Europe is dying to have their progeny. I think they should be acquitted. Frankly if the ottoman empire was a just empire then Israel should expand as far east as it possible can and clean out all the muslims who do not convert to their policy. But that would be denying Armenian genocide.