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Soldiers share moral dilemmas they face at checkpoints
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: Checkpoints, IDF 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for May 1, 2008.

Some of the soldiers who staff the Eliyahu Checkpoint in the northern Western Bank are highly sensitive to the moral dilemmas accompanying their job description.

The soldiers in the Taoz Battallion of the Military Police are on their on their feet, often in the sun, 12 hours a day. But that isn't the hardest part.


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      1.   Morale dilema? Not here. 07:29  |  Gili 02/05/08
      2.   moral dilemmas....? 09:52  |  ravi 02/05/08
      3.   Gili 10:05  |  Imad 02/05/08
      4.   Just do the right thing 11:41  |  Leser 02/05/08
      5.   End the violence first 13:01  |  Lars Cromander 02/05/08
      6.   Israelis stand in line too 13:21  |  Mika 02/05/08
      7.   They save lives 14:05  |  Frederick Bainhauer 02/05/08
      8.   Leser 15:25  |  soggy liberal 02/05/08
      9.   Leser 15:26  |  soggy liberal 02/05/08
      10.   Just Generally 16:29  |  Robert/Montreal 02/05/08
      11.   Candigarth How many yes How many Israelis since 1948 16:36  |  Robert/Montreal 02/05/08
      12.   To Leser...there is no occupation; its all the land of Israel 16:38  |  SLAVO 02/05/08
      13.   It`s good to see Israeli soldiers like these... 16:53  |  Silvienne 02/05/08
      14.   #1, Gili... 16:55  |  Silvienne 02/05/08
      15.   #9, soggy liberal 16:58  |  Silvienne 02/05/08
      16.   Soldiers moral dilemmas 18:15  |  Dorothea 02/05/08
      17.   moral dilemmas......where??? 18:17  |  ljf-canada 02/05/08
      18.   #3 The shoe fits on the other foot too 18:18  |  Gili 02/05/08
      19.   What can you do? 20:46  |  Lev 02/05/08
      20.   The time to change has arrived 23:27  |  Garba 02/05/08
      21.   I saw one of those soldiers 00:09  |  raminPersianPride 03/05/08
      22.   raminPersianPride- don`t you know we all look alike. 05:27  |  Israeli 03/05/08
      23.   Silvienne obviously doesn`t know jack 08:26  |  Avi 03/05/08
      24.   I wouldn`t mined talking to IDF female soldiers at checkpoint ! 11:34  |  IL supporter 03/05/08
      25.   cute 12:57  |  sacha 03/05/08
      26.   Cute! - Gili #1 14:05  |  Hanoman 03/05/08
      27.   At least somne of them realize of these things 16:14  |  Maria 03/05/08
      28.   11... robert.... yes how many...? 20:45  |  ravi 03/05/08
      29.   Mika 20:56  |  John 03/05/08
      30.   #22 Israeli-hate to be politically incorrect but 04:23  |  Aphemia 04/05/08
      31.   #23, Avi..and what does what you said in your post... 04:51  |  Silvienne 04/05/08
      32.   Dilemma 07:11  |  Ahmed 04/05/08
      33.   Israeli soldiers, don`t feel guilty about the checkpoints. 18:09  |  Wolf 04/05/08
      34.   Misplaced focus 21:19  |  Scharker Yid 04/05/08
      35.   ABSURD reasoning 01:54  |  Ernst 05/05/08
      36.   Lars Cromander 02:22  |  Guy From NYC 05/05/08
      37.   Criminal Soldiers at checkpoints 20:37  |  Fed up 06/05/08
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