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Anti-Semitism at IDF base
Yossi Yehoshua
Published: 22.04.07, 10:13
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1. Yes, blow it out of proportion..there must be no other news
Dumb ,   USA   (04.22.07)
2. Please...pick something that more newsworthy
Sensational press ,   USA   (04.22.07)
3. Is this actually a true story?!
Disbelief   (04.22.07)
Doesn't the IDF have prisons to put away these hooligans? Can something like this actually go on at an army base in Israel without being stopped? If so, shut down the army and close up Israel because you'll be better off living in the diaspora.
4. Ynet must be joking ...WTF !
James ,   Toledo Ohio USA   (04.22.07)
The facts must be confused. How can Jews be anti-semetic? How can Jews act like Nazis? I am at a total loss as to what to think of this article. Please, somebody slap me and clear the fog from my head. Please wake me from this dream.
5. we don't need nazis in israel
johanna ,   tsfat   (04.22.07)
these anti-semetic soldiers should be not only expelled from the israeli army but expelled from israel. anyone convicted of an anti-semetic offence should be deprived of their citizenship and deported. this is still the JEWISH STATE after all. if they don't like jews what are they here for ?
6. WTF are they doing in Israel???
Suzanne   (04.22.07)
I dont get it?!?!
7. according to Olmert & Peretz such things never happen
(04.22.07)
8. Mihveh Alon
Yoav ,   London   (04.22.07)
I also did a course at this base as a recruit and we had problems with the Russians then as well. All the immigrant soldiers came to the course with high motivation and clashed with the Russians as well - most of whom werent jewsih and didnt even pretend to be. They hated Jews and Israel and we give them guns and military training. The big question is - what are the commanders and senior officers doing? Im guessing that like all problems facing the IDF at the moment, the officers were probably on holdiay or looking out for themselves and not really bothered. Shame on those who wear the uniform and havent earned it.
9. More than 60 % of Russian immigrants are not Jewish!!
Tevye ,   Chelm   (04.22.07)
So its no wonder that there are a whole bunch of anti-semites among them! This fits in perfectly with the policy to try to let Israel become a state which is not defined by its Jewishness!
10. to all Ameri-cockies who wrote "sensational"
Am-Yisrael ,   Israel   (04.22.07)
Israel is a Jewish state. Arabs/muslims have half the globe. Europe is Christian (at least used to be, now its muslim). and America is Christian aside from your atheist hedonist metropolis' like san fransisco, LA, and new york. In all those places, from new zealand to canada and the US there is anti semitism both from the muslims, moonbat left and the nazi right . SO IF YOU THINK WE ARE GOING TO IGNORE ANTISEMITISM IN OUR OWN COUNTRY...F--- OFF cockies
11. #4 - Join reality please
Shalom   (04.22.07)
Israel has opened its gates to thousands of goyim - what can you expect? These Russian hooligans are only in Israel for the benefits their parents received. They complete the army and then are going to turn on us, be it through spying, aiding our enemies or an attempt at military coup. Mark my words. Meanwhile - the idiots in the higher echelons let it continue.
12. Earth to JAmes #4 These russians are gentiles. U R an IDIOT
Israel   (04.22.07)
13. we must wake-up now or we will fall
RealZionist   (04.22.07)
14. IF IT HAPPENED IN A FRENCH ARMY BASE IT WOULD BE SCANDAL
Yoni   (04.22.07)
paradoxe..................
15. How such French pass draft-who's he can protect with TEAR'S
Former soldier ,   Israel   (04.22.07)
16. #4 Most Russians are not Jewish. With the Israel Jews
David E. ,   Jerusalem   (04.22.07)
leaving Israel and others not wanting to serve in this army, the government enlists non-Jews to the IDF, hence the anti-Semitism in our own army.
17. ynet losing readers
Alex ,   San Francisco   (04.22.07)
lame story, ynet! a typical exaggeration of events. The russian jewish kids had some cruel army fun. big deal...
18. Russian anti-Semitic soldiers
ger` ,   Raanana, Israel   (04.22.07)
Get their names, discharge them from the IDF, and send them back to Russia. Anything else is unacceptable.
19. Lax Sokhnut policy
Raphael ,   Netanya   (04.22.07)
Since independance Soviet spying agencies managed to introduce trojan horses (from Israel Beer to Israel Shamir). I wonder about the absurd discriminating policy of Sokhnut, who ordered my ketuba be checked, though I am a concentration camp survivor, compared to their lack of control towards russian aryan redbrowns or ethiopian cheaters.
20. Anti- Semitism ; ZERO TOLERANCE !
ben ,   singapore   (04.22.07)
Deport the IMIGRANTS, REVOKE THIER CITIZENSHIP. Not only in the IDF, be it in any nation,one must have the loyalty to serve the Nation they live in.This is PUBLIC POLICY ! In the Singapore Arm Forces ( SAF ) here, if such behavior is detected, they will be dealth with severely. I dont know why the IDF should take these moron imigrants in the frist place.They will never make a professional soldier. Just Purge them out !
21. Kick them out of our country
Sam ,   paris   (04.22.07)
It's so difficult to make aliyah, if we have such miserable people in the country, not worthy anymore. Poor law of return.....
22. Witnessed similar experience
ash ,   gush etzion   (04.22.07)
While I was in a unit of many immigrants, some non-Jewish Russians abused a Guatemalan Jew to the point that this highly motivated Oleh had to spend the rest of the army in psychiatric hospital and left israel as sonn as he could. Many other non-Jewish Russiand who may not have been antisemites were highly unmotivated and laughed and abused anyone who was.
23. russian soldiars
Max Ullman   (04.22.07)
Once again the army sweeps rotten behavior under the carpet.Instead of protecting the soldier they exposed him to further violance. Why were the sargaents and officers not punished for not stopping this horrible manifestation.
24. innevitable?
unfortunate ,   Jerusalem   (04.22.07)
I can understand people's disbelief about this story. I too am quite disturbed by it, though not surprised. What many abroad might not realize is that a large number of the Russian immigrants moving to Israel in the last 10 years or so, were not raised "Jewish" or with any awareness of Jewishness (a grandmother or great-grandmother might have been a Jew), they are Russians first, which can often mean antisemitic as history has unfortunately dictated. Should they be allowed to come to Israel as Jews anyway?
25. Racism breeds racism
RedStarYeast ,   USA   (04.22.07)
This is the logical result of Israel's racist "Anyone But Moslem" immigration policy, designed to inflate aliyah numbers and the non-Arab electorate. Israel is now learning (as if it needed any lessons) that racism breeds racism.
26. They are waiting for him to commit suicide,
ben ,   singapore   (04.22.07)
they might be thinking of living him in a room with a gun on the table. Chapter close. After 59 years we still here this kind of nonsense in the IDF. WHat National Day ?
27. Antisemetic remarks by Russian soldiers in IDF
Roxy ,   Israel   (04.22.07)
The majority of the Russians that came here are not Jewish and came from areas that Anti Semtism ran rampant. Seems to me that those soldiers should be expatriated back to Russia asap! When I immigrated here from the USA I had to not only show them my Ketuba, but my mom's as well to prove my jewishness, yet these Russians didn't have to..many of them only stay in Israel to get "their rights as "jews", and then when that money is gone they try to move to the west,either America or Canada!
28. Shocking!
Sidney ,   USA   (04.22.07)
Commanders who tolerated this should be punished. Every one of these anti-Semites should be deported forthwith. This is a major scandal.
29. to #4 There are alot of goyim coming in
jason white ,   afula,israel   (04.22.07)
from the F.S.U. Jews can be anti-semetic.like chomsky,rose,finklestein,neutrei karta,ect.
30. Why doesnt Govt import Ukranians to act as Camp Guards
Alan ,   SA   (04.22.07)
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