Head count
Left behind
This afternoon in my spare free time I managed to buy yesterday’s Herald Tribune:
“An embarrassed Israeli military confirmed Sunday that a soldier from an elite brigade was left behind by his comrades in the Gaza Strip last week and that he was recovered only after they had returned to base.
Even worse, according to the Israeli news service Ynet, which broke the story, his comrades answered for him during a verbal head count before they returned to Israel.
The soldier had fallen asleep during a rest break about 700 yards, or 640 meters, inside Gaza, as the Israelis were returning from an incursion near Khan Yunis. When he woke, he became frightened and began firing tracer bullets into the air and waving a fluorescent lightstick to identify himself to his comrades.”
The Israeli army might have become your average army: fairly corrupted, low moral among the troops and slightly careless.
The detail that his comrades answered for him during a head count is interesting for a novelist.
Arnon
another quick judgment! what's with you people?I thought you said you didn't like the fact the some people conclude too quickly?!
Dens / Ilanit
Dens: I like touching the physical newspaper.Ilanit, I used the word "might". Don't take the IDF too personal. Don't take anything too personal, my love.
Arnon
IDF was always fairly corrupt cause that’s a universal problem of every big organisation and slightly careless cause it involves people and people make mistakes. My problem with your interpretation is the low moral among the troops. Ok darling? Nothing personal sweetie.The soldier didn’t start waving flashlights but as mentioned above “firing tracer bullets into the air and waving a fluorescent light stick to identify himself”. Mystery solved?
Arnon,
The detail that his comrades answered for him during a head count MIGHT be a typical mistake(not less severe though) of thinking you heard your own name. In any case I’m very sure no one of his fellow soldiers intentionally wanted to live him there. So even for a novelist it would probably turn into an idiotic uninteresting mistake, which believe me will result in serious disciplinary measures.
The story that somebody is left behind intentionally, is doubtful but not impossible. Soldiers tend to fight more for their comrades than any other cause.
Jan Thys
Try to view this situation from a very very very fatigue point of view. A state in which the soldiers were in most probably. There will be no logical answer for the clear mind, but fraud is really not a plausible situation which can be taken in consideration. I would say that the statement about soldiers fighting more for their comrades then any other cause sounds influenced by some Hollywood movies. They are a unit though and the intensity in which they live with each other for several years creates a bond which leaves any intention impossible in my opinion. You will need the whole platoon to want that.Dens
encourage me, that's fine! But I would like to know how come so that I can seriously answer...Ilanit
You don't seem to understand novels, therefore you don't seem to understand the work of a novelist.With defenders like you the IDF doesn't need enemies.
Ilanit
And how you do you know that it is impossible that the comrades of this soldier decided to answer for him during a headcount. Your lack of imagination comes close to an insult.Has your therapist advised you to be more assertive? And do we need to be the first victims of your therapist’s advice?
