Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Israeli Ex-Soldier Defends Her Facebook Snapshots

Snapshots taken by Israeli soldiers of captured of killed Palestinians were posted on Facebook by Breaking the Silence, an Israeli human rights group on Tuesday. Snapshots taken by Israeli soldiers of captured or killed Palestinians were posted on Facebook by Breaking the Silence, an Israeli human rights group on Tuesday.

Updated | 3:07 p.m. In an interview with Israeli Army radio on Tuesday, a former Israeli soldier said, “I still don’t understand what’s wrong” with photographs she posted on Facebook of herself posing next to blindfolded Palestinian detainees.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported that Eden Abergil, who posted the images in an album dedicated to her time in the military — called “The Army… the most beautiful time of my life :)” — said that the “pictures were taken in good will, there was no statement in them.” She added that they were not intended to humiliate the prisoners but merely to document her “military experience,” and that she had no idea they “would be problematic.”

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  1. The most beautiful time of her life.So why did she give up all that beauty?

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