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  1. “Hajbi’s family name indicates he is of Yemenite ethnic background. ”

    How’s this fact relevant to your charges?

    How does an investigation into the armory thefts constitute, “Driving Soldiers to Suicide “?

    1. @ porter: Did you bother reading the Hebrew original report? If you did you’d know the reasoning isn’t explained there. Do you think I have a source within the battalion who can explain it to me? I only know what I read and I told you everything I knew. I’d suggest you go read Rotter & tell us the gossip you read there.

  2. Hajbi is a relatively common Moroccan and Tunisian family name for both Jews and Muslims. There’s even a small town in Morocco called Hajbi, close To Fez and Meknes.

    1. @ a random israeli: I often report the ethnic origins of those Israelis I’m profiling. I think it’s relevant to their political-nationalist-gender attitudes. If he’d been Russian, Druze, Bedouin, Palestinian, or American I would’ve done so as well. If you knew my writing here you’d know this was true.

  3. Haim Nahman Bialik (supposedly) said a proof Israel became a “normal” nation among nations. will be the existence of “a Hebrew thief and a Hebrew whore.”
    It isn’t flattering but it is true. The problem is when one focus on the out-liars!

      1. No Elisabeth, it is not meaningless. It means Jews see themselves as good as anyone else around them and that include having criminals and whores and so does the IDF. It doesn’t mean we allow it to became the norm but highlight it as a surprise is hypocritical.
        One expect some degree of it in any organization or society. Fighting against it is what creates better society and that is exactly what the IDF did by investigating this case. Lets celebrate justice!

        1. @ Ariel: It certainly is meaningless today. Indeed, it’s nostalgic claptrap. Israelis aren’t as good as anyone else. In fact, they’re much worse than many nations in the world. And that should be a shame to Jews abroad and Israeli Jews. But from the looks of you, it doesn’t bother you in the least since you’re happy not only that there are Israeli crooks and whores, but that your government & its policies are criminal.

          The IDF investigated the case only after it was exposed by Kol Yisrael. Before the media pounced on the case, the IDF relieved the deputy commander of duty for insubordination when he complained. What’s there to “celebrate” in that??

          1. RS – I encourage you to read my reply again. I didn’t say crime shouldn’t be dealt with, but rather it is normal to exist and an unending challenge to society to fix. Can you name one society nowadays where crime doesn’t exist? Or in the history of humankind? (Maybe in rich cultures or where punishment is extremely severe).
            Searching “**** sexual harassment” where **** is any multinational corp bring many results. Does this mean this whole company is evil? What if they tried to hash it and solve it internally? What if they didn’t do anything about it?
            I think the fact Israel and IDF are being held to the highest standards are b/c they are getting there. Otherwise, what is another alleged rapist? We had Moshe Dayan.

    1. @ Ariel: 100 yrs ago, such sentiments were meaningful to Jews who had no sovereignty or nation. Now, the sentiments are trite & puerile, as are you. I just saw in the Middle East Monitor comment thread that you’re notorious over there. Is this what you do? SLumming through the purported “anti-Israel” demimonde? Who’s payin’ ya, haboob?

      1. RS – I started writing on MEMO after I stumbled upon the website and was amazed by the massive production of lies and inaccuracies MEMO put on. They often do not link their sources and when you find the source it may have been totally distorted or just unreliable to begin with.
        Why assume someone is paying me? B/C I am…? I learnt quite a lot by exchanging ideas with people on MEMO. It is great to have a website that doesn’t censor the posts so one can understand how other people think and perceive of the subject.

  4. interesting that bit about the theft of weapons. much of the weaponry used in the ‘mafia’ wars in Israel is military hardware.

    “Echoing Israel Police Insp.- Gen. Yohanan Danino’s words earlier this week, Yitzhaki said that most of the explosives police seize are ready-to-use factory made, and are not homemade improvised bombs, meaning that the source for most of them is the IDF.

    The IDF Spokesman’s Office said on Tuesday that the army is well aware of the phenomenon of theft from weapons depots and bases, and is doing what it can in collaboration with the Israel Police and through undercover Military Police investigations.
    . . .
    In a number of recent incidents, including the attempted bombings of the Tiv Ta’am grocery store branch on Ibn Gvirol Street in Tel Aviv last year, the explosives used were high-grade military-issue bombs normally used by elite IDF units, according to police sources.

    While in years past car bombs were used to target major crime figures, over the past couple of weeks, a number of blasts targeted men who were not considered major police investigative targets.

    A Central District police source said this includes the two men killed in the explosion last week in Petah Tikva, who were “not among the top 30, even top 50 police targets in the city,” and a man killed in south Tel Aviv on Saturday night, who one high-ranking officer said had moved to the North and was visiting family in Tel Aviv, but was not on the police radar or considered a major person of interest.

    According to police, the increasing popularity and easy availability of bombs means they are no longer reserved for use in feuds between major crime figures, and have become more of an “equal opportunity” weapon.”

    not much in the US press about Israeli gangsters peppering the landscape with car bombs, a supposedly peculiarly Muslim/Arab tactic.

    1. @ porter: No moron, I intended to publish a two part series, one about Tablet on the first day & the second on Leibovitz on the second. I accidentally clicked “Publish” when I meant to click “Draft.” So the 2nd part was published for a few hrs yesterday. But it’s up now in all its glory. Do report it to him so you both can notify your attorneys. I’ve had so many libel threats I can’t begin to count them. They don’t end well for the complainants. The main problem is idiots like you don’t understand what libel is.

  5. ” Do report it to him so you both can notify your attorneys”

    Apparently, you attempted to contact Leibovitz only after you “accidentally” published the first draft.

    1. @ porter:

      you attempted to contact Leibovitz only after you “accidentally” published the first draft.

      That’s a lie. You will take back your lie or never publish another comment here again. You have 6 hrs to do so.

      1. I said, “Apparently, you attempted to contact Leibovitz only after..”.

        Apparently. An adverb meaning ‘as far as one knows or can see’.

        I far as I can see, you attempted to contact Leibovitz only after.
        If you say you know, you attempted to contact him before.

        I’ll be back to post regardless, whether you ban me today, tomorrow or next week.

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