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Hi, this is Don Kedal with another Israel Report and today I'm reporting to you from
the land of Israel with a special report about what's been happening here in Israel
lately as far as a burning debate in the Israeli public and what it is, an Israeli
soldier who acted, in his opinion, in a right manner to eliminate a threat in a
terrorist attack in Hebron that took place a few months ago and the soldier
has been through such scrutiny by the media, by the Defense Minister, the former
Defense Minister, Bugia Yalon. The Defense Ministry, in my opinion, failed. His
direct commanders, they failed because all of his direct commanders did not even
take any responsibility for what took place. His platoon commander was there
on the scene and he himself now says, okay, this is months later, he says, yeah, I
felt there was a threat to a continuation of a terrorist act, was
worried because of the coat that he was wearing, which is, you know, for the
season here in Israel, it's really hot for most of the year and the
terrorist was wearing a coat during the hot season. Okay, that's odd and for
anybody who works in that field knows immediately that's a sure sign of a
terrorist who is carrying an explosive belt potentially and he wasn't the only
one that was concerned. It was his commander, like I said, his direct
commander was feeling the threat. The emergency response team, they were
also responding and saying, hey, is this guy eliminated? I'm afraid he might have
an explosive belt. So let me just say that there are too many things here that
went wrong. His direct commanders should have taken responsibility for the
incident themselves, first and foremost, since they were the ones who were in
command of the scene. None of them have taken responsibility up to date and they
have changed their narrative within by the fourth time that they recalled what
took place. They've already changed their narrative, right, to support what the
media was saying, what all the public opinion was saying and that's not
how you carry out an investigation, definitely not one like this. You have to
do what you need to do in order to eliminate terrorism. You can't be weak
towards terrorism. Terrorism needs to be eliminated and it has to be acted against
swiftly and strongly and that's what we saw over a week and a half ago when the
Israeli Air Force responded heavily towards the one rocket that was fired
into southern Israel. It's about time that we stop allowing our enemies to bully us
and that we stand up for our right to exist in this land and whatever it takes
that's what we need to do. This is the scoop from what's been taking place here
in Israel lately and this is Don Kedal with another Israel Report. Thank you for
listening. Shalom from the land of Israel.
