Israel's army A new, perhaps dangerous, freedom

摘要

Trigger-happy troops set loose? Questions about the response of Israeli soldiers facing Palestinian demonstrators are being asked, and not just by Palestinians. But suspicions about individual behaviour are less relevant than the clear fact that the army, given its head by Ariel Sharon, has made a deliberate decision to take the fight to the Palestinians, even at the risk of escalation and of deepening Israel's international problems.