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Former IDF manpower chief: Politicians should leave Azaria case alone
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleMK Elazar Stern (Yesh Atid), a former chief of the IDF Manpower Directorate, urges his fellow politicians to cease commenting on the Azaria trial.
“The military court gave its backing for the IDF’s code of ethics and for the chief of staff’s own support for the IDF’s ethics,” Stern says, referring to IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot’s criticism of Azaria’s March 2016 killing of an incapacitated Palestinian assailant.
“The political interventions in this case have caused very great harm to the IDF, and also to Elor Azaria. I call on the prime minister, ministers and members of Knesset to stop dealing with this case and to leave the commanders to deal with the [question of] pardons.”
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