Reply To: Yes – he IS my son!!!

Israeliyid

“as a body that only works and is able to function properly based on discipline, had no choice but to charge and try him for violating orders.”

Did they have to charge him? Did they not have an option to have some sort of disciplinary action under wraps and away from the media?

Furthermore, did the chief of staff and defense minister have to pounce on him before the facts were even known?

It just seems to me that a lot of measures were taken that were not obligatory in the least which have put this poor boy’s future in peril for the sake of some soundbites and resume items for a future knesset run.

Why this blind insistence on offering up Azaria as a korban on the alter of protocol? Maybe we should just update the protocol instead of punishing the soldier. And for what ends? Even with all the IDF’s “morality” everyone brags about the whole world still hates us and wants to destroy us. I would rather have an effective and feared army than a defeated and moral one. Chazal say one who comes to kill you rise up and kill him first… whatever happened to G-d’s morality?

And furthermore, getting back to one of my original points – it’s all fine and well that both you and I view all the soldiers as all our children, but we don’t have a say in the army now do we? The chief of staff on the other-hand does have a big say and he has made it quite clear that he most definitely does NOT view them as our children.