Female Soldier Punished for Talking With Yesha Girls

www.arutzsheva.net ^ | 16:05 Feb 16, '06 / 18 Shevat 5766 | Hana Levi Julian

[Esther Ruth]

Female Soldier Punished for Talking With Yesha Girls 16:05 Feb 16, '06 / 18 Shevat 5766 By Hana Levi Julian

A female IDF soldier has been disciplined for answering a group of girls who criticized soldiers. The incident in question occurred as they rode together on a civilian bus towards Beit El.

The soldier was talking with a group of girls who were returning from last week's demonstration in Jerusalem protesting the vicious manner in which the Amona outpost had been evacuated.

The soldier was warned by a female IDF officer, who was also on the bus, not to talk to the girls. The soldier ignored the warning and continued her conversation. She told the officer that there was no rule against talking with residents of Yesha and that she was in favor of doing so.

“They are human beings just as we are,” she told the officer. “They are not enemies who have turned against the Jewish people.”

The officer filed a formal complaint against the soldier, who was tried by the Binyamin Brigade commander and confined to the base.

The IDF told reporters that the soldier acted against orders forbidding “confrontational conversations" with residents of Yesha.

Published: 14:02 February 16, 2006 Last Update: 16:05 February 16, 2006

[rmlew]

if you want to change soldiers' assignments, change the government that employs them.
The current government was elected on a platform that opposed giving away Judea and Samaria!
They chose ot ignore their mandate and democracy! It is an illegitimate junta.