Israeli soldiers lost to the Palestinians

The video clip shows what you know: It doesn’t matter how polite you are at 1:30 A.M. in a Palestinian house in the occupied territories; you shouldn’t be there at all

It’s hard to turn one’s eyes away from the six-and-a-half-minute video clip that has been running around social media in recent days (see below). This time, it doesn’t show the liquidation in lukewarm blood of a dying terrorist by a combat medic in Hebron. Instead, it shows soldiers from some unknown unit at 1:30 A.M. on some night paying a “visit” to the house of some Palestinian family for the sake of “showing a presence” of some kind in some village in the West Bank.

How could it be that despite it all, you lost? Because you know you shouldn’t have been there; we can see it in you. You lost in advance. You entered a situation from which you never had any chance of emerging in a good light.

The camera shows what you know: It doesn’t matter how polite you are at 1:30 A.M. in a Palestinian house in the occupied territories; you shouldn’t be there at all. It doesn’t matter how hard IDF soldiers try to treat the civilian population respectfully and be nice to Palestinian children; the IDF shouldn’t be there. Israel shouldn’t be there.

And they got the better of you. All of them. The father, the mother, the children. The mother asked whether you were afraid. You responded that you weren’t afraid, but she refused to accept your answer. “I like order,” you replied. She was fighting for justice and you were fighting for order; therefore, you lost.

And it wasn’t just you who lost; the IDF lost. Israel lost to the Palestinians. That’s what the viewer sees in this video clip.

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