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'I actually took care of the detainees'
Boaz Fyler
Published: 17.08.10, 08:21
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31. SHE'S AN IDIOT!
SETTHERECORDSTRAIGHT   (08.17.10)
32. What's the big deal? Death Threats?
Rich ,   Toronto, Canada   (08.17.10)
People are paranoid. What happen to faith in Hashem?
33. Ex soldier is right. her detractors drama queens
Golan ,   modiin   (08.17.10)
there was nothing wrong with those pictures and some people are just drama queens
34. IDF is most ethical army in the world....
(08.17.10)
but some of our soldiers like Eden are just plain pollyanna stupid! To all of the negative critics have a good look at those photos and then compare them to photos of USA Army soldiers abusing prisoners in Afghanistan and Gitmo (USA Guantanamo Base). Eden is guilty of pollyanna stupidity but not of cruelty or violation of the human rights of the IDF's charges! So to TBers such as Cameron #8 from the USA stand down because your stupid is showing!
35. Where are photos of her holding cups of water with straw?
Eric ,   Tel Aviv & New York   (08.17.10)
The photos posted only tell part of the story, she needs to post ones that back up her claim that she took care of the prisoners. Don't show her with them, show her taking care of them. That would have made her a hero, now she is a target.
36. Taking care of Detainees.
kevin j.lee ,   Glasgow/UK   (08.17.10)
Okay! Eden may well be naive,but what is she guilty of,as Ive only got the Photo"s posted here to go on,I cant see what all the fuss is about,is Eden seen as abusing no! mistreating no! humilitating them no!can anyone actually prove that they are Prisoners,well can you!.Israel does take Prisoners Israel does not Kill all,and by these Photo"s doesnt mistreat either.You know what is realy sickening is that there is so much information out there (web)etc,yet we as a world are less informed ,than we were a hundred years ago,all we do know is look at Photo"s/Film footage and bingo,do we peruse question No.Oh I get its a Jew thing,I take it that Eden is in one way or another a Jew,she is normal alike that tree in the Tanakh,you know tree of Knowledge Good and Bad.Edens Guilty of being Naive!so get out more girl,thats your punishment,but keep the Photo"s as they could be Historically important.
37. She's not striking them but still...
observer ,   USA   (08.17.10)
Why were the prisoners there like that? it brings up more questions about the prisoners than what she meant to show in the picture like that. Either way, their both disturbing.
38. absolutely nothing wrong with the pictures
Arn ,   Israel   (08.17.10)
How often have we seen newspaper photos and televised clips of IDF soldiers apprehending Palestinians for questioning and arrest! All of them - and there can be many - are shown blindfolded, standing in a line, with their wrists in those plastic strip-locks. Those photos show nothing we haven't seen many times before. And there is absolutely nothing inhuman or malicious about those photos. The uproar, which admittedly has some legitimacy, is that this girl unthinkingly presented these photos in a popular social dimension and not in the context of a news item. Apart from this blind spot in her thinking what are we seeing for the first time? What secret is she exposing? Nothing. What is certain is that all those her age who found a way to avoid army service wouldn't have been where she was serving when the photos were taken.
39. 32 - What happened?
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (08.17.10)
1933-1945
40. The world has no free-will anymore
Paul ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (08.17.10)
The Jews of Israel never quite get how obsessively horny the world is to demonize Jews, and how the slightest thing arouses the world's instinctive Jew-hatred. The Jews of Israel also never quite get how the Arabs think, and how destructive any actions of Jews are other then demanding the Arabs accept Jewish rule or leave. But, the most important thing the Jews of Israel need to understand is that their rulers are weak and self-serving, rarely acting in the interests of the Jewish people.
41. :: IDF soldiers on safari
Matty Groves ,   Fairport   (08.17.10)
These photos remind me of photos game hunters took of themselves standing proudly beside the game they bagged. Eden’s photos are no different; she poses with pride beside her ‘trophies’, she then went on to publish these photos worldwide (via Facebook) to show off her achievement. In the third Geneva Convention (article 3) it states: “In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions: [...] (c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;” Clearly Eden has humiliated and degraded these Palestinian civilians by treating them as ‘war trophies’. I hope the PA proceed with their legal case, hopefully such a case will deter other IDF soldiers from treating Palestinians in such a degrading manner.
42. Nothing wrong even in original photos you can't see faces
Rod ,   Fargo N.Dakota   (08.17.10)
Look at any military in the world and you'll see soldiers alongside prisoners.What's the matter Obama calling the shots in Israel or maybe the other idiot Cameron.I bet many of Israeli families would love to see photos of relatives taken by the terrorists.
43. What a stupid young woman
Linichka ,   Gdynia, Poland   (08.17.10)
Why would she even want to take such a photo - let alone post it on Facebook? The IDF hasn't taken enough diss from the world without this silly cow igniting more? And now she whines that the IDF let her down!
44. giving the bbc anything to go on,
sweeter than honey ,   far away   (08.17.10)
and all such bodies, including israel's own, is a stupid mistake. i have seen her whole album and if it says one thing it is the VANITY, (pictures being mostly coy and posing and cute) of this stupid, most stupid, vain person.
45. She done nothing wrong!
Tony   (08.17.10)
These are just pictures. The enemy detainees weren't mistreated. We owe no respect to the enemy, so nothing wrong with taking a picture of the enemy being detained.
46. Handcuffed and blindfolded
Sean ,   Montreal, Quebec   (08.17.10)
And as Zionists you see this as taking care? Who but you and the Yanks blindfold prisoners? Oh, excuse me...."detainees". If someone came on your property and handcuffed and blindfolded you, would you actually interpret photos of such an event as proof that they treated you nicely? How dare you humiliate these people in such a manner. What some people here refer to as "moral" is known in the rest of the world as barbarian!
47. Would she ever done that if she didn't
Sam ,   ME   (08.17.10)
think that Palestinians are lesser humans????
48. A typical retard
David ,   Israel   (08.17.10)
She did not serve in the intelligence or any prestigious unit. Like every other retard in this country she ended up with a crappy job in prison. There are many such idiots in Israel (like in other countries, BTW), and the army gives them an opportunity to be in the position of power - and they use this opportunity to the maximum (some Middle Eastern mentality). She won't get smarter. The only solution is to improve secondary schools. Nonetheless, Arabs should better shut up because there is no torture or humiliation in the pictures, whereas in their "culture" those are part of everyday life.
49. poor Eden
martine ,   ashdod   (08.17.10)
When she put those pictures, Eden didn't know that she could be threatened the way she has been. That was not a provocation, that was just to show her while she was serving her country. I believe her, not because we live in the same city, but I'm sure that she had no intention to hurt anyone. But Israel is not the country that is proud of its army anymore, Tsahal said that Eden was wrong, the problem is that they are against the fact that she put those pics on FB, the most famous site where people say, do and show the worst things without shame! so what? Tsahal saw her and the person who did those pictures and never banned her before that incident. That's why I think that she's an innocent victime of the system. Israel wants the World to see them like models even if they are cursed and banned by all the countries of the World. So they found Eden to condemn for the bad image they have in the World. In fact, I'm shocked to not see Israel medias and army back her. They sold their soul to obama and the nations that dislike them. Too bad. I just hope that Eden will get through that period safely. She doesn't deserve all the threats and bad things she heard about herself.
50. Out of proportion
gavriel ,   Jerusalem   (08.17.10)
Poor girl! I believe the issue is taken completely out of proportion by the reporters! If you are looking for the escape goat please find it in another place! In terms of identifying the Palestinians: if only those two pictures (which appear in Ynet) are taken, there's no way to identify them. Their faces are as closed as the the face of the Eden (by the editorial effort to hide her identity in yesterday's article. Here her face is 100% closed)
51. "All hat and no cattle"...?
Soeren ,   Cologne/Germany   (08.17.10)
I think it's a bit too much made out of it. She is only 21 or 22 years old so relax a bit. Her action was not very adequate – but in the end it was only the behaviour of a youngster...
52. Dumb girl
Robin ,   US   (08.17.10)
Did she think twice about how her actions will affect her fellow soldiers?
53. What Arabs do to their prisoners
D ,   China   (08.17.10)
No one remembers the 2 Israeli soldiers who were arrested by the PA police and brought to their police station where they were subsequently lynched, torn apart limb by limb by an Arab mob, including the police officers, while one waved his bloody hands out the window in ecstasy. And this girl did what again that was so terrible?????
54. no 45
hebrew prophet ,   israel   (08.17.10)
Typical leftist/looney claptrap as Eden didn,t sexually molest any of her so called prisoners or humiliate them ,just pictures of the vanquished ,nothing else ?
55. no 11
hebrew prophet ,   israel   (08.17.10)
Much worse is happening in cloud cuckoo land Lebanon,specifically the Parliament where opponents of Islamofascism are routinely murdered in the name of Allah,so take your crocodile tears to Pakistan .
56. PUSTEMA!!!!
shadoil ,   jerusalem   (08.17.10)
57. #15 Daniel - WHY????
Chaya ,   Tel Aviv   (08.17.10)
Why should the men be compensated??? What was happening to them??? They were simply blindfolded and handcuffed.
58. This is NOT Abu Ghraib...
Chris Rettenmoser ,   Bayerisch Gmain Germ   (08.17.10)
Easy there World Union of the hypocrites...this "story" is nothing more than a hollow bubble... Sorry but it is better for you, to forget about it very fast...even the most passionate Israel haters will not be able to keep it cooking for more than a few days... This is just BORING...
59. People like this girl is the shame of our country
Daniela   (08.17.10)
60. for crying out loud
Lisa   (08.17.10)
this is totally ridiculous- this immature girl lacked judgment- the IDF lacked guidance- if you draft children into the army, teach them how to behave, what they can and must do, what not to do- now and later. It is training for their entire lives. This girl is a scape goat- the army is trying to save face blaming this stupid girl- This looks like lack of education and training- there is more to a soldier than pointing a gun- .
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