Boy, you would make a lousy lawyer. Seal doesnt have to say another word as your exhibits prove his case beyond a reasonable doubt. None of your links show the IDF soilders being punished to any great extent. and even the one about the bill proposed by the MK gives a statue of limitations of 5 years. You really ought to read the articles that you use to justify things because if you link to something people will check !!!
Also I would like to point out that photographing prisoners is a war crime according to the 4th Geneva Convention:
Parading prisoners 'broke international law'
By Joshua Rozenberg, Legal Editor
12:01AM BST 30 Mar 2007
The Iranian handling of the prisoners could have broken international humanitarian law.
This requires that the British military personnel be treated humanely and protected against insults or public curiosity.
The Fourth Geneva Convention, signed in 1949, protects civilians in time of war. But its application is much broader, covering people who, "in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in the case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a party to the conflict or occupying power of which they are not nationals".
It applies not only to "cases of declared war" but also "any other armed conflict". This seems to cover the situation of foreign troops captured at gunpoint.
Article 27 says that people protected by the Fourth Convention "are entitled, in all circumstances, to respect for their persons" and be protected from violence, threats, insults and public curiosity.
Parading prisoners 'broke international law' - Telegraph
But at this point I don't think Israel cares about such legalities.
i didn't even want to respond, it was pretty ridiculous.
i mean, the issue kind of centered around how the IDF investigates misconduct towards the civilian population in her own ranks and roudy gives us a case of soldiers abusing recruits and a 17 day penalty for a woman found guilty of offenses similair to abu ghraib, albeit of a lesser magnitude. seventeen days is a slap on the wrist.
but my fave was the MK introducing a bill in front of the knesset (odd really that things are so bad they need a law passed to cover the IDF's short comings) and the MK is essentially saying what i had contended, that the IDF is inadeqquate to unvestigate themselves and too many cases are slipping through the cracks.
roudy, i asked for statistics on the matter first of all, but yes, i also did ask for investigations that soldiers received penalties ampunting to more than a slap on the wrist, if you need some reference point (and it was marg who brought up abu ghraib), just look at the penalties meted out to those cconvicted of misconduct there. no wrist slappin' in those proceedings.