Posted on 11/19/2023 9:31:14 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Reserve officers in the IDF sounded the alarm over a collection of reports recently accumulated on disciplinary issues among Israeli soldiers in Gaza, which may lead to "serious incidents" in the Gaza Strip and endanger Israeli forces in the face of Hamas threats, they argued.
Among the alarming reports, a testimony of a tank commander claimed he observed soldiers playing soccer, swimming in the waters of Gazan beaches, spraying graffiti inscriptions on the walls of Palestinian houses, and planting trees brought from Israel.
Also, some unusual political statements by soldiers were recorded on social networks. One veteran in the IDF reserves told Walla! of one case in which he witnessed the arrival of fuel tanks deep in Gaza.
"A message was received about heavy vehicles (armored personnel carriers, tanks, bulldozers) engaging in a competition to see who will arrive at their destination first. There is no order. There is always one driver who wants to arrive first, or someone who bypasses the line, and then there is tension between them.
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This HAS to be the Bee!
“...soldiers playing soccer, swimming in the waters of Gazan beaches, spraying graffiti inscriptions on the walls of Palestinian houses, and planting trees brought from Israel.”
Watch for a PBS documentary on the tree-planting atrocities.
That is where I thought the story was going.
"...naked bathing in the Raritan River and an epidemic of 'the French disease'"
--an alleged dispatch from General Washington quoted in the Sherman Edwards musical "1776"
Problem is, they are behaving like it is all over and the win is in the bag.
That’s not true. 90+% of Hamas fighters are stil there. A two million strong terrorist population is still there.
The Germans were on the beach and went swimming in Dunkirk after the evacuation. Fine.
But Hamas hasn’t gone anywhere and the IDF needs to stay on their toes and finish the job.
Interesting
Yep. When I saw the headline about “conduct endangers forces” I was thinking of lining Hamas prisoners against a wall and executing them, or torching civilian homes. Not playing soccer and swimming.
I can see where unofficial “races” to certain parts of Gaza would screw up battle plans and get soldiers killed however.
Disciplined ground forces don’t rush in until airborne forces have reduced the fear to tread!
Wow, planting trees.. taking a swim… some graffiti?
Discipline is important, but this is hardly end of the world stuff.
Yeh, the first thing I thought was Israeli’s going rogue and doing a rampage of their own.
Estimates have showed that up to 2,000 terrorists were killed on 10/7 attacks. Since then, another 10,000 casualties in Gaza. But how many of them are foot soldiers for Hamas? No one knows.
We are estimating that there are up to 50,000 terrorists by Hamas. So if 2,000 are dead, that would represent 4% of their troops engaged in combat.
I wonder what species of tree they planted and if there is some significance to it. Could be something to remind them of home
A Bill Mauldin cartoon shows Willie and Joe looking through a junk yard of destroyed Deuce and 1/2s.
One remarks to the other, look, here's one actually destroyed by enemy action, (or close to that, I don't remember exactly).
“planting trees brought from Israel”
NOOOOOO!
OMG! Planting trees, exercising Freedom of Speech!
Call out the morally outraged trolls! This has got to stop!
We Americans would be ecstatic if this were a description of a weekend in South Chicago!
Regards,
Insane people should not be in uniform.
Absolute best case scenario is 12K Hamas fighters killed.
That means ~30K to ~40K of them still out there.
And the furthest away they could be is the Egypt border which is 30 km.
IDF needs to win first, then celebrate and relax.
Re Israeli soldiers taking a swim. Guess they like a clean fight.
Maybe they will introduce Hamas prisoners to water.
planting trees brought from Israel
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