The soldier, apparently from the air force, entered Ya’alon’s offices at IDF headquarters in Tel Aviv, known as the Kiryah, telling a guard he had an appointment with the chief of staff. As the guard started to joke at the unlikely possibility of a soldier meeting with the commander-in-chief of the IDF, the soldier whipped out a spray-can and sprayed the slogan “Jews don’t expel Jews” just as Ya’alon walked into his office.
An IDF official told INN reporter Uzi Baruch that the soldier was not operating alone. “The soldier first went into the bathroom located in the chief-of-staff’s headquarters and sprayed ‘Jews don’t expel Jews’” on the wall. “His friends notified him when the chief of staff entered the Kiryah and the area near his office. At that moment, the soldier went out of the bathroom and sprayed the slogan in the waiting room,” adjacent to Ya’alon’s office.
The soldier was seized by military police and is now under arrest.
In related news, an IDF cadet was thrown out of officer’s training after he told his commanders he would not participate in an operation uprooting Jews from their homes. The soldier’s commanders, however, may allow the soldier to return to the course, once the expulsion process is no longer relevant.
Homat Magen, (Defensive Sheild) a group supporting the rights of IDF soldiers, said, “The IDF is becoming an army of officers with weak character, whose personal careers stand above all else.”
Ya’alon issued an order Sunday morning to expel from military service any career officer who would try to avoid duties connected to implementing the expulsion plan.
The IDF is setting up two special brigades of career officers who will devote all their time to implementing the expulsion plan. According to Israel radio, all career officers will be required to participate in implementing the plan.
An IDF official told INN reporter Uzi Baruch that the soldier was not operating alone. “The soldier first went into the bathroom located in the chief-of-staff’s headquarters and sprayed ‘Jews don’t expel Jews’” on the wall. “His friends notified him when the chief of staff entered the Kiryah and the area near his office. At that moment, the soldier went out of the bathroom and sprayed the slogan in the waiting room,” adjacent to Ya’alon’s office.
The soldier was seized by military police and is now under arrest.
In related news, an IDF cadet was thrown out of officer’s training after he told his commanders he would not participate in an operation uprooting Jews from their homes. The soldier’s commanders, however, may allow the soldier to return to the course, once the expulsion process is no longer relevant.
Homat Magen, (Defensive Sheild) a group supporting the rights of IDF soldiers, said, “The IDF is becoming an army of officers with weak character, whose personal careers stand above all else.”
Ya’alon issued an order Sunday morning to expel from military service any career officer who would try to avoid duties connected to implementing the expulsion plan.
The IDF is setting up two special brigades of career officers who will devote all their time to implementing the expulsion plan. According to Israel radio, all career officers will be required to participate in implementing the plan.