IDF being 'sensitive' to Muslims during Ramadamn

[muman613]

This news inflames my spleen {H.T. Rabbi Singer}.... The IDF this year will show sensitivity to the Muslim population by refraining from eating, drinking, or smoking in front of the animals, I mean arabs... I don't think the IDF even refrains from eating or drinking during the fast of Yom Kippur {1 day}.... Why does the IDF show respect for this foreign invading religion? Why doesn't it even observe the fast of the High Holiday? What has happened to the 'Jewish State'? Have I just been dreaming all these years with the belief that there exists a Jewish state in this world? How can the IDF observe a foreign religions holiday? This kind of news makes me sick...


http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139051

Ramadan: Soldiers Told Not to Eat or Smoke in Front of Arabs
Av 30, 5770, 10 August 10 10:45
by Gil Ronen

(Israelnationalnews.com) Instructions issued by the IDF for the Muslim month of Ramadan forbid soldiers from eating, drinking or smoking in front of the Arabs of Judea and Samaria. A statement issued by the IDF Spokesman said that as the Muslim holiday approaches, representatives of the Civilian Administration "briefed the forces operating in the field about the holidays and customs of Ramadan.”

"The soldiers were instructed to show greater consideration toward the residents, and to refrain as much as possible from eating, drinking and smoking in public in front of the population, especially at the crossing points, and to be alert and accommodating.”

Devout Muslims refrain from eating, drinking or smoking during the daytime hours of Ramadan.

Several checkpoints will operate until later hours because of Ramadan. In addition, first-degree relatives of Arabs living in pre-1967 Israel will be allowed to visit them for a one-week period during the month of Ramadan.

Two hundred entry permits for foreigners from Arab countries will be issued for “humanitarian cases.”

The grassroots Samaria Residents' Council was not happy with the instructions issued to the soldiers. “It is sad to see how the Minister of Defense shows such grand consideration for the Muslim faith, and at the same time sends IDF soldiers and Border Police to tear down synagogues, beat up rabbis of communities, issue demolition orders for yeshivas and drag Jewish youths by their earlocks.”

The Council asks: “Is he Ehud Barak or Ahmed Barak?”

[Yaacov Ben Yehuda]

one word... PATHETIC!


i'm convinced ehud barak is having a gay affair with a muslim arab!  He looks like a fagale

[nopeaceforland]

That's right, forget the past, including the Yom Kippor War!!!!!

[AsheDina]

THIS IS DISGUSTING.
I think Israel can be taken over if any more appeasement continues.

It certainly does not help with AmeriKa allowing a mosque on G. Zero.

[Meerkat]

OK, this is absolute BS. those A-holes attacked us on our most sensitive holiday in '73, why the heck should we respect their's? if anything, we should be doing more during Ramadan!!

[Ari Ben-Canaan]

Vexation. 

[Lisa]

I think the IDF soldiers should carry around pork chops for defensive purposes.  Also, they should use boars for sniffing bombs.  I hear those animals have a great sense of smell.  Maybe the boars can make a meal out of the fakestinian terrorists.