Chronicle-Tribune · Marion, IN · 26 May 2016

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Israel's new defense minister could clash with his soldiers

BY JOSEF FEDERMAN / Associated Press

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JERUSALEM — Israel's incoming defense minister once called for bombing Egypt, suggested just weeks ago that Israel kill Hamas' leader in the Gaza Strip and opposed the prosecution of a soldier accused of killing a wounded Palestinian. These are just a few of the positions that could put former bar bouncer Avigdor Lieberman at odds with the military he now commands.

While people close to Lieberman insist he is a pragmatist, his long history of incendiary statements bode poorly for him as he takes over one of the region's most sensitive posts.

As Israel's defense minister, he will be responsible for overseeing military policy and handling delicate security matters with international allies whom he has antagonized in the past. [...] The army's chief, Lt. Gen.

Gadi Eisenkot, came under fire earlier this year from parliamentary hard-liners by encouraging soldiers to use only "necessary force" to subdue Palestinian attackers. The hard-liners say attackers should be killed on the spot.

In March, military leaders criticized a soldier who was caught on video fatally shooting an already-wounded Palestinian attacker in the head – and he is now on trial for manslaughter. Lieberman went to the court to offer his support to the soldier.

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Date and publication rest on the collector's slide label; no masthead, folio or printed dateline appears on this clipping. Filed under the archive’s spelling; the page prints “Chronicle Tribune”.

Context added by this archive

AP wire copy. This is the one news story in the batch where Eisenkot is positioned as the restraining figure: he is attacked by parliamentary hard-liners for telling soldiers to use only "necessary force". The same framing recurs on slides 9 and 18.

Also quoted: Eliezer Marom, former head of the Israeli navy, telling Army Radio that Lieberman should be given a chance — "The man is with great political experience," Marom said.

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