In Israel, whistleblowers are criminals and rapists are heroes

A great scandal currently playing out in Israel is highly revealing of the fault lines in its society when it comes to the Palestinians. Israeli society is divided between those who think the scandal is about the leaking of a video showing the abuse of Palestinian detainees and those who think the crime is the actual abuse. Yes, for many, the leak is the crime, not the depicted rape. The reaction in much of Israel has been that the leak was an act of treason, a betrayal rather than an expose of a major crime. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented the leak as a hasbara fail.

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