A video of five Arabic-speaking IDF soldiers cursing Israel and expressing support for Jenin went viral on Tuesday, sparking outrage and leading to the arrest of the soldiers late Tuesday night.
They were released from custody on Wednesday. A statement from the IDF said that “a military police investigation has been launched and its findings will be forwarded to the military prosecutor’s office for examination.”
Later on Wednesday, the IDF issued a statement saying that four of the soldiers were sentenced to 30 days in military prison and the fifth soldier was sentenced to 21 days.
The video surfaced a day after eight IDF soldiers and undercover officers were injured in an explosion rigged by terrorists in Jenin during a counterterrorism operation.
In the video, the soldiers are heard laughing and saying “Israel can go to hell,” and “Allah supports Jenin and Palestine.” The soldiers then say that “this video will lead you to G-d.”
The Druze and Bedouin soldiers, who serve as drivers in the Logistics Corp, filmed the video while on an IDF base in southern Israel.
Druze and Bedouin-Israelis are required to serve in the IDF.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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They never had it so good, the ingrates. An Arab on the Supreme Court. Openly anti-Israel Arab MKs in the Knesset. A higher standard of living, and more PhDs per capita for Israeli Arabs than any other Arab community. If you are an Arab Muslim who wants to go to university, just apply and you’ll get a free ride. There’s always hard-earned Jewish scholarship money for an anti-Israel Arab at Hebrew University, Ben-Gurion University or Tel Aviv University. And still, they hate Israel like poison.
What do you expect-they are Arabs!
Israel supposedly smart country.
How dumb can one be to bring the enemy into your own army?
Who in Israel can TRUST the decision the army makes?
They are stupid beyond!
If “Druze and Bedouin-Israelis are required to serve in the IDF.”
Then you can walk to heaven
They should all get dishonorable discharges, and be put on trial for treason
young and stupid, they shouldn’t be locked up. instead, they should get a one-way ride to the “falestin” that they support.
Bedouin soldiers are constantly stealing weapons from the army and selling them. They also tend to steal literally anything that isn’t nailed down (and sometimes that too). They are a massive liability. This has been ignored for far too long.
As for the Druze community, they have been okay for the most part. But one important thing to keep in mind: The Druze do not have a country of their own. Their way of surviving is by staying loyal to who they think will be ruling over them. That’s why they’ve been so loyal thus far.
So what happened to racist Arab Omar Shakir “aparth-eid” lies?