They gave the soldier who smashed it and the one who filmed 30 days in jail and discharges. The 6 who watched and did not intervene got "disciplined" and the IDF replaced the statue with another one that has a gold finish.
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SaltyShawarma1 day ago
+485
lol, a golden statue of Jesus. Can't get anymore blind to your own faith.
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plippityploppitypoop1 day ago
+348
It’s almost like Judaism isn’t Christianity
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Niceromancer1 day ago
+114
You'd expect the town residents to voice conscers over building a GOLDEN IDOL of Jesus when building golden idols is something their book says specifically not to do.
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Spiceguy-6523 hr ago
+95
The IDF could give a flying f*** less as to what the locals of that town want or like
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Unlikely-Signal-516722 hr ago
+42
It's literally not gold. And there are golden colored statues of Jesus in places. I think it's really copper or something
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SaneSociopathPolitic1 day ago
+18
I think at this point they just wanted to be done dealing with the IDF
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Niceromancer23 hr ago
+4
This is probably valid.
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nw3421 day ago
+24
Do you really think the idf gives a f*** about what the locals think or want?
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Jestersfriend23 hr ago
+10
Ah yes, let's complain to the racist pricks that just bashed my faith with a sledgehammer, rolling around town with guns, and destroying half of the country.
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Midraco1 day ago
+5
The book tells them not to build idols of false Gods. It's hard to argue Jesus isn't a true God as a part of the Trinity.
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BeastMasterJ23 hr ago
+19
Someone ought to go back a thousand years and let the Orthodox know you can't use gold when depicting Jesus.
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KDR_11k16 hr ago
+2
Some subsections of Christianity did consider all those Jesus statues to be a form of idolatry but the major churches love their expensive decor.
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NorthernerWuwu20 hr ago
+6
Well, depends on which book we want to talk about. OT is quite specific "**You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth."** but the NT gets a lot more wishy-washy about things.
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cinnamonspiderr17 hr ago
+8
> shall not make for **yourself**
Replacing a destroyed statue for a different religion isn’t them putting another god before their god, and Jews certainly aren’t worshipping Jesus, so I wonder if that is the justification. Ethically speaking and from a secular view, replacing it seems like the right thing to do.
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Jedbo7515 hr ago
+2
The Trinity is very arguable and there are entire denominations that are non-Trinitarian.
When Jesus prays to his Father, calls out to him, it is enormously hard to reconcile that he would be doing so to himself. Also, for God to sacrifice his only begotten son to pay for humanity’s sins may carry less weight for some when considered that his son is…him, er, Him.
Christ as God mostly seems to come from post-Gospel writings, less from his own words. God as 3 personages is damn near polytheistic in the eyes of many.
Not necessarily taking a stance on my own views, as I’m comfortable not knowing shit (while still knowing as much as anyone else) but to say it’s hard to argue, even amongst those who consider themselves Christians, just ain’t so.
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Red-Flag-Potemkin20 hr ago
+3
It’s incredibly easy to argue Jesus wasn’t god or the messiah.
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Metahec22 hr ago
+2
I think it's a passive aggressive insult towards Christians since *they* don't recognize Jesus as anything special. They won't make golden figures of what they hold significant or holy, but f*** everybody else because their holiness doesn't count.
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Bored_Interests22 hr ago
+7
So Judaism is from the Torah, which is almost the exact same as the Old Testament of the Bible.
In the book of Exodus, the Israelites made a golden calf to worship prior to Moses making a trip up the mountain to get the 10 commandments.
This story is the same across the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran. Those three religions are called the Abrahamic religions because they all share a number of stories, including the tale of Abraham as the founding father of Judaism and the spiritual ancestor to Christianity and Islam.
Judaism isnt Christianity, youre right. But Christianity is Judaism with extra steps, and Islam is Judaism and Christianity with extra steps.
So although they are not the same, it is common and accurate to conflate the 3 when it comes to stories from the Old Testament.
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idiot50000018 hr ago
+2
Where are the 10 commandments in the Quran? They believe the entirety of the Tanakh has been corrupted by Satan. Like... No
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Canada_Suck_it18 hr ago
+2
This is just wrong, you can see clear and obvious difference in how each prays, dietary laws, languages used, proselytizing, and major differences on ideas of afterlife.
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supamario13223 hr ago
+27
Why? Making a gold statue to anything else would be ironic but veneration is a pretty central part of the religion. I would bet most catholics have at least 1 gold crucifix
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alsotheabyss21 hr ago
+18
What? Have you never seen medieval iconography of the Trinity? It’s all covered in gold.
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throwraW223 hr ago
+37
It’s not their faith.
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idiot50000023 hr ago
+19
The owner is Catholic. They do this.
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Jestersfriend23 hr ago
+10
What are you talking about? Jesus isn't anyone special in Judaism. At most he was a preacher.
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generic_tylenol19 hr ago
+2
"He chose...poorly."
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XiaoDaoShi12 hr ago
+2
A statue of Jesus is already idolatry by Jewish standards (many Protestants also believe the same). Gold doesn’t make it extra sinful, even if it conjures that specific story from the bible.
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KaiBahamut22 hr ago
+53
Smashing a statue of Jesus is a much more serious crime in the IDF than any r*** or child murder- Christians don’t care about that, but would care about vandalism of a statue of Jesus.
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enjoycarrots21 hr ago
+40
It hurt the wrong people, most notably their PR with Christian Zionists.
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kstargate-42518 hr ago
+4
This unfortunately all its about. Their only remaining supporters and they couldn't have that. Theyve got $150 MILLION annually to spend for hasbara and buying politicians through 2030 to try and fix it but its not making a dent anymore thankfully
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ozneoknarf22 hr ago
+14
Seems fair, destroying a statue shouldn’t get you years in jail
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White_Travolta16 hr ago
+8
What about slaughtering a population?
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mido_sama1 day ago
+18
For Orange approval
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One_Study5223 hr ago
+8
But if it was a Palestinian child, they would have been given a promotion
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coldazice1 day ago
+6
Gold finish they’re playing in everyone’s face lol
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nobadhotdog1 day ago
+961
Will the jail be stormed by israelis wanting to free them like they did with the soldiers who knife raped a guy?
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FireworkFuse1 day ago
+542
A country having *PRO* r*** riots in the modern day is absolutely insane and yet here we are. Something something most moral army or whatever
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Round-Medicine25071 day ago
+142
Well the whole Republican party is pro r*** unless the offender is caught on public cctv or has darker skin.
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DownhillUphill23 hr ago
+84
Israel only respects Zionism. The world needs to turn our backs on them
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Beneficial_Soup36991 day ago
+88
How about the dog handlers?
I refuse to expand on this. iykyk, and I'm sorry you've been cursed with the knowledge.
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Jay-Dee-British23 hr ago
+22
Yeah I wish I could un-know this. I'd like a factory reset from before hearing about this, thanks.
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nobadhotdog23 hr ago
+7
i don't know, what is this?
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yuje23 hr ago
+64
There are reports that the IDF has been [using dogs to r*** prisoners](https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/palestinians-raped-israeli-jailers-speak-out)
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3nterShift19 hr ago
+19
Just when I think these ghouls can't get more comically evil, I get hit with another steel chair of crimes against humanity.
No wonder they love their thought-terminating cliché so much. You start sounding insane and like a genuine antisemite the moment you start describing what's happening.
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Metahec22 hr ago
+5
Knife raped a guy? I missed that one. I did see that they absolved the group who gang raped a prisoner and ousted the lady who blew the whistle on them though.
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h8sm8s19 hr ago
+10
They have even trained dogs to r*** prisoners. Multiple surviving victims have spoken out about it. It’s one of the worst things I have ever read.
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Metahec18 hr ago
+3
That's enough internet for me today. How revolting.
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naththegrath1021 hr ago
+75
Let’s be real, the IDF only cares because the images spread online
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kstargate-42518 hr ago
+13
Yeah it hurt their Christian zionist supporters which are the only ones left so had to do something as spending $150 MILLION annually through 2030 isnt doing the job anymore.
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Ramoncin1 day ago
+425
Jailed for this but nor for raping Palestinians?
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Walnut_Uprising1 day ago
+144
Because this pisses off the evangelicals who are indirectly funding the IDF.
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TheLego_Senate22 hr ago
+48
Exactly. You can do whatever you want but don't f*** with the money.
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Hussar22322 hr ago
+51
the only reason this happened is because it pissed off the american evangelical right wing, the biggest israeli supporting demographic in the US.
cant let them realize that israel wants to ethnically cleanse everyone from southern lebanon. not just muslims
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FinndBors19 hr ago
+7
> the biggest israeli supporting demographic in the US.
Given the population of Israel, it’s the biggest in the world.
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janethefish23 hr ago
+28
It just shows they CAN act quickly to punish if they feel like it. It shows that r*** has Israeli government support.
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Listerine_Panther1 day ago
+52
Well of course. Sadly, Jesus is the one people care about. Or rather, idols of someone else's description of him.
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BulldogMoose23 hr ago
+15
They’re only punishing them because they have to.
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TerriblePokemon23 hr ago
+7
Careful, break too many Jesus statues and the American evangelicals in congress (who support Israel in order to bring about the apocalypse and the second coming of Jesus) might get pissy and withhold funding.
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MedicineExtension92522 hr ago
+2
Yeah you don't want to piss off your donors after all
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spicymemesdotcom20 hr ago
+2
Recognize the hierarchy.
Christians= worth saving
Muslims= not worth saving
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W0rdWaster1 day ago
+354
kill journalists? children? r*** a man on camera? no problem!
vandalism that angers trumps base? straight to jail!!
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CV90_12022 hr ago
+12
Look, after the [Hula massacre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hula_massacre) they jailed the officer in charge for a whole year. What more do you want?
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Acceptable-Peace-6923 hr ago
+41
Killings Since 2020: Over 1,100 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank since 2020.
Impunity Rates: Data indicates that 93.8% of investigations into ideologically motivated crimes by settlers against Palestinians (including killings) are closed without an indictment.
Soldier Prosecutions: Between 2018 and 2022, only 1.5% of complaints against soldiers led to charges, with the probability of a soldier being prosecuted for killing a Palestinian at 0.4%.
Conviction Rate: As of early 2025, only 3% of investigated cases of settler violence since 2005 resulted in a conviction.
In March 2026, the Israeli Knesset passed a law authorizing the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of killing Israelis, which critics note applies exclusively to Palestinians, while Israeli settlers charged with killing Palestinians in the same territory face civilian courts with a low conviction rate.
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epidemicsaints1 day ago
+94
So glad statues have personhood over there. Back to r*** and killing children, guys.
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ShibeCEO18 hr ago
+22
so THATS where we draw the line?!?
f****** clownshow...
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Infinite-Two769016 hr ago
+2
I feel this is a really insensitive and honestly appalling comment, there are legitimate clownshows in the world who would be deeply offended by the comparison...
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thefrozenorth21 hr ago
+17
It's ok to kill thousands of Palestinians but don't upset the American Evangelicals who pay for everything because they need Israel for the Rapture.
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wyvernx0219 hr ago
+12
Punished for getting caught doing it, not for actually doing it.
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Gnufighter16 hr ago
+11
Footage of Israelis spitting at Churches:
https://youtu.be/7TwEQX6zwUI?si=tDceY7WKO--7jGRk
Footage of Israelis spitting at Nuns:
https://youtu.be/7uL555xWQeE?si=Tu2rpokbREZN1SOR
Footage of Israelis assaulting a Priest:
https://youtu.be/LXwxMKnuJKw?si=YSL0sBw2nZ8fHfZw
They don't care that it happened they care they got caught.
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Sir_David_Filth1 day ago
+26
So they will "jail" idiots smashing a statues but will riot over literal f****** rapists? What a disgrace of a nation and people
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secretqwerty1023 hr ago
+3
>literal f****** rapists
that guy was arrested first, then the riots happened.
who knows, maybe zionists will do the same for these guys
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Fanticide1 day ago
+58
Why do I get the feeling that “jailed” means hidden from zionists.
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onegumas1 day ago
+41
Hidden from news for 2 weeks and then released. As always.
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whereismymind8618 hr ago
+4
Says a lot that this is what generates outrage and gets a soldier arrested, not all the genocide
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charlies_brain18 hr ago
+4
Israelis have a N word equivalent for Christians. They literally crucified Christ, but stupid Christians still think they love Jesus.
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FineBumblebee874416 hr ago
+2
Christians made the guy that stabbed Jesus a saint
https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=11
But sure keep claiming 'the Jews' killed Jesus
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sushi691 day ago
+28
No topple statue! Only kill and r*** Palestinian
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Affectionate-Print811 day ago
+13
Wow actual consequences. Good for them.
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areno00416 hr ago
+4
Kill babies : nothing
Destroy a statue: jail
This world
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ExcitingRelief249723 hr ago
+2
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Kwelikinz16 hr ago
+2
Probably just transferred them to the “buffer zone” in Lebanon.
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BD_9x14 hr ago
+2
Don’t worry guys they will be jailed for one day and get a slap on the wrist for this act
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Easy_Prompt_627514 hr ago
+2
If only they bombed, abused, starved, or killed Palestinians, they would be ok
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Operation-Cultural12 hr ago
+2
Are they going to rebuild all the homes they bombed for fun?
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epilepsy_ray11 hr ago
+2
Kill babies, pat on the back.
Destroy a poorly made statue of a man lived 2000 years ago, u get disciplined.
What a wonderful world...
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HappyCaterpillar24091 day ago
+9
"We're sorry we got caught"
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Winstonsphobia17 hr ago
+3
Kill Palestinian children and Israel will decorate you.
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JackBlackBowserSlaps16 hr ago
+2
Should have just raped someone. Then they’d get promoted.
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Independent_Tie_498416 hr ago
+3
"Two Israeli Soldiers Jailed for Getting Caught"
Fixed
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nickyinnj16 hr ago
+3
This is surprising. A statue gets justice but not the displaced people bring used for shooting sport. ... Reading.
EDIT after reading: I'm a Christian, and they can smash all the Jesus statues they want. Just stop destroying and bombing homes and displacing civilians.
I'm still shocked that this is the act of the IDF out of all their documented behaviors that gets punished.
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Hunter_Aleksandr21 hr ago
+4
Only because it made their optics worse. F*** Israel. Free Palestine. Free the Jewish people from being forced to be associated with Israel.
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Mysterious_Bit_53851 day ago
+3
How about the one who r*** and/or commit warcrime now ?
We have 6000 french citizen who served for tsahal in gaza , and they are roaming free in france .
Im SO DONE .
F israel .
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AnanasDuEnfer20 hr ago
+3
They can excuse targeting aid workers but smashing a statue of Christ is where they draw the line
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Ornery-Childhood17821 day ago
+3
Smashing Jesus = bad. Raping prisoners = good.
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spoogicus21 hr ago
+2
Kill tens of thousands of women and children, no problem and no apology.
But you smash one little status of the Jeebus? Straight to jail and a formal apology from Bibi.
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Rivitur20 hr ago
+2
So wait. Are the Jews pro or anti killing Jesus I'm confused
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W1nn3tou13 hr ago
+2
Killing children is fine, but do not cross the line of smashing a dudes statue /s
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Sparrahs13 hr ago
+2
So you can’t do that to a statue of a Palestinian man? Real Palestinian people can be killed by the thousands with no repercussions though.
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CUTTYONE7021 hr ago
+3
Jail I'm sure it's a country club type of setup.
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fcatw20 hr ago
+2
So that’s what it takes to jail an Israeli soldier?
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SnarkyPuppy-041719 hr ago
+1
Somehow this is more offensive than murdering children?
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thebetterpolitician23 hr ago
+3
lol the goalpost just moves further. Ya’ll were up in arms about statues all of a sudden and Israel did something and now it’s “WHAT ABOUT THIS?!?”
Insufferable
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Dark_Mak__r1 day ago
Well after a month or soo a mob led by a far right will storm jail and get them free… and will get posted back to west bank area…
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CaraCicartix1 day ago
+3
For how long? Three hours with a pat on the head and a cookie?
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Scr33ble23 hr ago
+1
But probably np if they’d killed actual humans
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Hot_Pilot_329323 hr ago
+1
Jailed for destroying a statue but not for raping inmates, Justice at its finest.
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ExterminAiden1 day ago
+2
If they are actually jailed then good, but I imagine that’s a complete lie by them. Or at worst they just got fired.
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AvidCyclist25022 hr ago
+1
It's what happens if you don't have a professional army. More or less laymen soldiers make for shit and undisciplined soldiers. Also easily scared and stressed soldiers, which is never good.
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vb250921 hr ago
+1
So when do they get medals for it?
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Redowl19921 hr ago
+1
Bet they will get released later and back to duty. Its the trick Israil does
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Abbbcdy20 hr ago
+1
I would have to be there in person and see them in jail to believe this
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unlucky_billionaire19 hr ago
+1
Yes, lets jail them after the event spread online and try to do some damage control
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TheOriginalKrampus11 hr ago
+1
Great! Now do they can do the same with the buildings they destroyed in Lebanon.
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