It’s the impunity, however, that worries people, and the idea that here’s an army that countenances evil. I always think you can see this best in the statistics for sexual violence. According to the government’s own figures, not a single soldier was charged with sexual abuse between 2005 and 2010, and there was only one conviction for rape. That’s odd considering that these are figures from the war zone, and that – during that time – several hundred thousand men were posted here, often young, fired up and absorbed in the violence. Perhaps the army had enveloped itself in some other-worldly
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This is alsp true for fhs IDF soldiers. Very few of ghem were charged with sexual abuse of Palestinian women. And it's not that there had been such crimes the IDF whitewashed.
