It is with astonishment and great sorrow that I have to sadly report that ONCE AGAIN the people in charge of the IDF’s legal department have leveled charges against reserve soldiers for the abuse of a rapist-murdering-child killer Hamas Nukba terrorist. Those sent to arrest the soldiers at the army detention center where the worst of the worst Hamas terrorists are held were met by an enraged group of protestors who actually broke into the base to protect the accused. Later that day, an incensed crowd of protestors screamed protests in front of the house of the IDF’s chief prosecutor Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi. “My husband left his family to protect his country on October 7, and now he is being treated like a criminal,” one incensed reserve soldier’s wife said.

 Nine soldiers were brought to a military tribunal for a hearing. At least their names aren’t being released, and it is illegal to photograph them.

The invasion of army bases, is of course, deplorable.

Minister Moshe Arbel and Knesset members Hili Trooper, Eli Dellal, Moshe Salomon, Merav Ben Ari, Efrat Reiten and Oded Porer said in a joint call to stop before the abyss: “Along with the pain at the sight of soldiers being detained for questioning, we wish to make the voice of the many Israelis who disagree on many issues, including the question of questioning soldiers during wartime, and still agree that the Israel Defense Forces must remain out of the debate; It is clear that the law and the independence of the enforcement and command elements must be respected.”

Perhaps. But can someone explain to me why the IDF Prosecutor’s Office is calling released Nukba terrorists ON THE PHONE to enquire if any of them “have any complaints” about how they were treated…! I’m sure these upright people will have only wonderful things to say….The idiocy is astounding.

From the Wall Street Journal:

Kamal Harris’s Gift to Hamas

By Amit Segal

The war in the Gaza Strip is more about losing time than capturing territory. Time works in Israel’s favor because it is a half-trillion-dollar economy contending with a few thousand terrorists who lack supply routes, hospitals for treating the wounded and camps for training fighters. But time also works in Hamas’s favor because international acceptance of action in densely populated Gaza is eroding, along with Israel’s economy and its army’s weapons.

Who will run out of time first?

In the spring, it seemed Israel would. President Biden turned a cold shoulder to the Jewish state as support for destroying Hamas morphed into a call to end the war and a warning against entering Rafah. Strategic weapons shipments were delayed in American ports. The International Court of Justice is seeking arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and defense minister, effectively equating them with Hamas leaders. No wonder Hamas refused any deal offered, however generous. If the U.S. president seeks to end the war and the world will soon force the Israel Defense Forces to stop, why give up Israeli hostages?

Sometime last month, the hourglass turned. It happened because Israel didn’t yield to Mr. Biden and in May entered Rafah cutting off Hamas’s last lifeline to the world. Mr. Biden found himself facing troubles of his own at home, while his presidential rival, whose only complaint against Israel was that it wasn’t destroying Hamas fast enough, began climbing in the polls. Suddenly, Hamas showed it could be flexible. It begged to restart negotiations even as Israel dropped 9 tons of precision bombs on its chief of staff, and agreed not to end the war.

Then Mr. Biden withdrew from the presidential race and Vice President Kamala Harris became the de facto nominee and gave Hamas an important gift. Never mind her childish boycott of Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress last Wednesday. Why was it necessary to side with the Palestinian narrative that places the blame for the war on Israel? “We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies,” she said the next day, after meeting with Mr. Netanyahu. “We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering. And I will not be silent.” This is a direct threat to Israel if it continues the war, a war the Biden-Harris administration itself supported and called “just.”

Ms. Harris, who in a recent interview said she was “hearing stories” about people in Gaza “eating animal feed, grass,” is apparently unaware that food prices there are significantly lower than in Israel. In any other war in the past century, has one side regularly supplied food and goods to the enemy’s civilians — and still been attacked by the White House?

By adopting the anti-Israel narrative, Ms. Harris is giving Hamas’s leader, Yahya Sinwar, every reason in the world to refuse a hostage deal. Why give Israel the hostages without ending the war if there is a possibility the 47th president will force Israel to end it anyway? “Let’s get the deal done so we can get a cease-fire to end the war,” Ms. Harris said Thursday, distancing the deal with her words.

This is more than diplomatic incompetence. Ms. Harris’s worldview is troubling in its immorality. Campus protesters “are showing exactly what the human emotion should be as a response to Gaza,” she said recently. “There are things some of the protesters are saying that I absolutely reject, so I don’t mean to wholesale endorse their points. But we have to navigate it.” The state of the Democratic Party is such that its presumptive presidential nominee claims that a war between a pro-Iranian murder organization and a democratic state “is not a binary issue.”

The administration is taking a similar stance on the Lebanese front. The Iranian proxy Hezbollah has been firing at Israel for months, destroying villages and slaughtering innocent children playing soccer. There is no “siege” and no “occupation,” yet the Biden administration is mediating between Hezbollah and Israel like a real-estate broker. Instead of sending Iran an unequivocal, threatening message, it is sending adviser Amos Hochstein to plead with Hezbollah to halt the rocket fire and offer Israeli territorial concessions.

If Israel fights back and the White House again calls for an end to the violence, we can expect another nonbinary war.

Mr. Segal is chief political commentator on Israel’s Channel 12 News and author of “The Story of Israeli Politics.”

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