IDF calls off West Bank raid due to Facebook leak

The IDF should only permit the use of cellphone's that do not have internet access at all because of the possibility of such leak's of valuable info that could cost people their lives.

I wouldn?t be that snobby about semantics. The only missing point is our neighbor ain't doing nothing to clean up own streets. Leave this soldier alone. Could be an Arab guy, judging by "god willing" expression. I am not even sure what is so wrong about posting details on the Facebook. Those they were to apprehend are waiting for IDF to knock on the door day and night, anyways. Perhaps we need something like this so that normal people don't get into cross hairs.

jews have their own state? I tought they took the land 60 years ago for that! Now is time for the palestinian to have the same right! you are just a propaganda machine like the goverment of israel! This is america not Israel, what are you doing here? spying on us? that is one passtime israeli like to do to their friend?

lives were saved. May this incident be a lesson to IDF-officers to emphasize in classrooms the dangers of writing or telling about planned operations anywhere to anybody; even to one*s family and the closest ones. Better yet: it should be completely forbidden as a rule, since it doesn*t seem to be self-evident to some.

Let us hope the Shin Bet take good care of the matter; we might be witnessing the activities of the Hamas "Mosab Hassan Yousef" in the IDF.

If every Israeli soldier who believed that attacking Palestinians and stealing their land is wrong, leaked upcoming terrorist operations against the Palestinians, Israeli terrorism would be crippled.

Jake didn't write "Jewish State", he wrote "jew State".

Israel insists on being called a "Jewish" state, and you're slammed as a bigot for complying with its preference. I guess this little revelation explains why the Palestinians hesitate to acquiesce to that demand by Israel. They obviously recognize it as a perfect "Catch-22" for the purpose of justifying maintaining the status quo by Israeli PR. "Hostile anti-Semitic racist if you DO; hostile anti-Semitic racist if you DON'T".

Jeez, what an idiot. Any soldier who has some brains, should know better. Fire the moron without honours.

As I have been saying for a while and this proves again, the way the IDF is being used is ruining it - using one of the world's best armies against civilian populations only softens it, ruins discipline, and makes it less able to face another real army when the time comes. If for no reason but the sake of Israel the occupation should end.

No Miggy . . . Israel legally arrest people plotting murder - people armed to the teeth with automatic weapons, high explosives and rocket propelled grenades. If these 'innocent defenceless' people find it somewhat inconvenient - and blind bigots like yourself choose to call it harrassment - it's just tough, isn't it? Wake up - or shut up.

"In case anyone forgot that many soldiers are adolescents, . . ." - bronxite 10 Yup. Any nation which depended upon intelligent adults to defend it, or commit aggression and oppression for it, would be in deep doo-doo. "People who can`t drive at 15 and drink until they`re 21 can nevertheless carry guns and make life and death decisions at 18." - bronxite Agreed. And those with a moral and mental age much beyond 18 are not good prospects for soldiers. "Go figure." - bronxite And a kid fugged up.

"W. Bank will NOT become another Gaza !" - Josiah J. Ben David That is exactly the objective of the Netanyahu government. To provoke an uprising which will allow another Cast Lead operation. "Scorched earth policy if necessary !" - ibid Then you agree with Netanyahu. A maximum effort to impose massive destruction of civilian infrastructure and huge Civilian deaths is desired.

"Palestinian officials say the incursions undermine efforts by the Western-backed Palestinian Authority to enforce law and order in the territory." - Haaretz The bottom line of the article, the important one. The PA has been doing a good job of preventing attacks upon Israel; Israel is trying to provoke a third infitada. The FACT is that Israel wants to provoke an uprising to justify a Cast Lead operation in the West Bank. There is NOTHING the PA can do to satisfy Israel and NOTHING any Palestinian can do to achieve peace. Israel wants endless war until there are NO Arabs within it's borders. Even the 'opposition' Livni wants Israel's Arabs to move. Get real folks. Get honest. There is NOTHING dishonest about honesty. Dishonesty is only a problem when one refuses to be honest. Israel has no use for Arabs, even it's own. Admit it. I can accept that. What is unacceptable is being dishonest. Why does Israel lie? Because it cannot accept what it wants? Or what it has become?

Israel was intending to add another provocation to those intended to provoke a third infitada has been thwarted by an overly forthcoming soldier. How droll. Israel is one of the most 'connected' nations in the world. More 'connected' than the USA. Too connected it seems.

Just what do you think would happen if others started following your example!?! An example must be made...you're gonna pay for this!!

who give Jews a bad name. "Scorched earth" policy indeed. I'm very certain that you are a physical coward very much of afraid of even a fair fight, yet from the safety of the USA, you call for the killing of innocent men, women and children. There is a special circle of hell reserved for flabby cowards like yourself.

Victor from Toronto (#29), if someone from the Parti Quebequois made an extravagant statement to the effect that you had your boot on their neck, wouldn't you dismiss it as so much blather? Why then, do you make equally vapid statements about the IDF? The IDF is dealing with Palastinains that would love to negate the State of Israel and will use murder as a device to make their point. It's a serious issue. What do you get out of trivializing Israeli concerns as if a destroyed state or some murdered Jews just didn't make a difference. If you are interested in this subject, you need to understand that Jews and Palastinains are real people with real fears and concerns, not just stick figures for your amusement and a subject for cheap propaganda.

It's a great state of affairs when IDF soldiers don't take seriously the existence of, nor the threats facing, their country. Such childishly cavalier behavior reflects poorly on the IDF and its leadership, and the leadership of the country. It's guaranteed that all of Iran's surrogates take their sworn objective of destroying Israel very seriously. Unfortunately, it will take a blood bath on a large scale to wake Israelis up and provide some unity among its citizens. The silly and immature behavior and thoughts that dominate the "Me" generation of the US has found fertile ground among young Israelis, and those people can ill afford such excess. I feel badly for all of those who gave their lives to so that a Jewish state might live...this soldier will carry his stain for the rest of his life!

It's a great state of affairs when IDF soldiers don't take seriously the existence of, nor the threats facing, their country. Such childishly cavalier behavior reflects poorly on the IDF and its leadership, and the leadership of the country. It's guaranteed that all of Iran's surrogates take their sworn objective of destroying Israel very seriously. Unfortunately, it will take a blood bath on a large scale to wake Israelis up and provide some unity among its citizens. The silly and immature behavior and thoughts that dominate the "Me" generation of the US has found fertile ground among young Israelis, and those people can ill afford such excess. I feel badly for all of those who gave their lives to so that a Jewish state might live...this soldier will carry his stain for the rest of his life!

It should be made compulsory to put passport details on Facebook it would save Mossad alot of hassle. Also good for the diplomats in any clean up operations after just blame Facebook

Something needs to be done about these Israelis. This is just disgusting. Im so glad they have been showing their faces to the world.

In response to Miggy WTF?. Over fifty thousends Irish men died during the second world war to stop Nazism. Four years later With an unilaterall decision Israel came about. Are you not greatful for there sarifice. When you reduce yourself to name calling PLEASE say nothing. Four of them men where my Uncles.

Please be careful of what you write or say on the internet, facebook, youtube, emails, even on your cell. Now with the new tech everyone can share what is being said. and sometimes it fall into wrong ears.

when it comes to be part of IDF. He must be trained to know Jewish values and become a true Israeli soldier and be loyal to his fellow soldiers and country.

Anyone telling me otherwise does not know history. Best for the Arabs to remove their 2 mosques that are occupying the holiest Jewish place in Jerusalem.

Yes, soldiers kill when required and the clean up is not against old women and children as you suggest; its trained to target organized murderers and thugs who paracitize their own people and use the Isrelies as an excuse as to why their lives are miserable. Six generations of UN refuge welfare checks make them totally incapable of doing any productive work or even conceiving of working for a living. Layabouts is what they are at best and worst, thugs, kidnappers and, extortionists and murderers.

After all, everyone knows that Isreal is doing to Palestine what Germany did to Israel. It's shameful and should be stopped.

I mean not specifically for IDF but for all armies. But the facebook-base intel is usually uncertain and foggy, also hidden under a large barrier of low probability of being hit, so not really worth exploiting. The soldier mentioned in the article probably did not include any Palestinians as his facebook friends and the probability of a Palestinian being a competent enough hacker to scan all facebook sites belonging to israelis automatically using a neural-network-based syntax pattern checker to hit that kind of intel is practically null (if Turks were fighting Israel, this prob would not be null but for Pals I am pretty certain it is null). So IDF's decision to calling the op off was a stupid decision. Not that I love IDF, I mean stupid from their point of view.

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What is 'Palestinian territory'? How can a non-existent people have 'territory'?

Does he get 10 days or 10 months?

Concerning the so called "cleanup". I assume that the soldier wrote all of this in english.

but no worries, they can likely tolerate a night off before resuming normal activities, ruining lives, keeping the boot firmly planted on the face of the occupied.

this should remind them. People who can't drive at 15 and drink until they're 21 can nevertheless carry guns and make life and death decisions at 18. Go figure.

You make it so evident exactly why the Jews must have a state of their own, where they are sovereign and independent, so that they are no longer subjected to the bigotry of the likes of you. And we will continue to fight for that state, and to so whatever we must to make sure it is sovereign and independent, lest we again become dependent on hateful sickos who seek to destroy us. Like you, jake. AM YISROEL CHAI!

Scorched earth policy if necessary !

The ?Cleanup? he is referring to just show you how inhuman is the Israeli army. Israeli soldiers are trained killers. I wonder what that state of Isreal will do with their sick (in the head and the heart) army once a Palestinian state is established. I wonder how they will keep this savage army busy. I am sure they will continue harassing and killing Palestinian in one form or another. These soldiers should be a shame of themselves, as the only thing they do best is harassing unarmed innocent Palestinian civilians including older people and children. Just remember "NEVER AGAIN" should be a two ways street.

Tend to agree with you. I would like to think the younger ones coming up in the IDF have less tolerance for injustice and brutality. Clean-ups indeed. Those taken on the pretext of that magical word "terrorist," which could be anybody the jew State disapproves of for any reason, or even worse anybody period to set an example of what could happen to you if it so chooses. That is real terrorism in action, as was what was done during the gaza "war."

This is just too funny!!! Hi deserves medal for not allowing innocent civilians to get killed.

hahahahahhahaha ,, would love to see more of that .... troops go ahead everybody should update his facebook status .... hheheheh .. realy made my day ..

Maybe you should learn to read, because in my original post, I never said that he should be in jail at all, much less rot there.

It seems the idiot thought he was writing in a personal diary. People on such sites sometimes forget that what they write on their screen appears on every screen connected to it. That is the World Wide Web.

This guy needs to be sent back home immediately and to follow a training on IDF processes and humanity. You don't "clean up" a village where human beings live.

I know many Irish have this misplaced sense of kinship with the Palestinians, because of several superficial historical similarities in your situations. But never fear - come the revolution, when Ireland and Palestine are both free from oppression, don't worry! The Palestinians won't stop there. No, if we are to trust interviews with some of their top representatives, they dream of the day they can walk down the streets of a New York governed under sharia law. I'm sure they'll stop by in Ireland along the way to "liberate" you guys, too.

Soldier;s leaking. Say didn't your fingers tremble whwn you betrayed your fellow-soldiers ? Good they caught you in the nick-of-time ! Is it beyond suspicion that he's from one of the left-Kibbutzim ? Or,perhaps he himself is a lefti ? What a straw of an individual !

...the ties and connections young Israeli's have back in time, when the Israeli fight was admirable and necessary, is missing. It will never be the same with this younger generation. That is why I always say that Israel needs tobecome Modern.

The soldier made a foolish mistake by informing his friends and family of his unit's movement. Nothing more. For that he should rot in jail, Michelle? Like all wingnuts, Right wing Jews are a quick to judge, rash and loony lot.

Bravo IDF keep up the good work we need more soldiers like this . IDF soldiers keep the information coming. thank you.

Who needs paid comedians. Like something out a Keystone Cops short.

the other soldiers in his unit, and the intel people who rooted out the source of potential terrorism, are owed this much. that this soldier rots in jail for the rest of his life!

Disgraceful techniques used by apartheid oppressors to scare and demorolize a land's native ihnabitants. Listen to Prof Jeffrey Halper on Youtube.com. He describes the many nefarious systematic evils of occupation in depth. The bullies in S. Africa handled things exacty the same way. Israel's crimes are neither unique or forgivable.

This man has saved many lives with this action, if there were more like him then peace would not be so distant a possibility.

Miggy - great job translating that sentence into Gaelic. I am surprised you had the time to write this between getting drunk and singing sad songs about dropping dead.

Take any opportunity to hijack any story and blog blah blah about occupation and "defenseless" Palestinians carrying Kaloshnikovs. It's really hard to believe that someone could be so stupid to blog about this, but there are stupid people in the world. It's actually better that they got him/her out of the army now. He/she could plausibly have attained rank and then really made boneheaded decisions.

The IDF goes after terrorists. These terrorists harm Palestinian civilians ability to live normal lives and build a Country! If people like you were in charge, Palestinians would be in a much worse situation. Ignorant fools.

Translation - we harrass and attack defenceless Palestinians in their own homes and villages in the territorties occupied by our military.

Mossad should facebook their hits. If the rest of our world is going to let them get away with murder they might as well brag on facebook.

What a dope! I hope he is taught a lesson for risking his comrades lives!

Facebook: more dangerous than nukes and apparently we(Israel) are one of the most avid users of the site(if not THE most avid users)

Have our soldiers or army gone mad! Has each soldier got access through his mobile or has each combat soldier received a laptop to keep them occupied!!

Have our soldiers or army gone mad! Has each soldier got access through his mobile or has each combat soldier received a laptop to keep them occupied!!