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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Article.aspx?id=266313
Benefit of the Doubt
(Jerusalem Post) Editorial - If, in fact, Lt.-Col. Shalom Eisner, the deputy commander of the IDF's Jordan Valley Brigade, did strike a foreign pro-Palestinian activist with his rifle on Saturday unprovoked and not in self-defense, we condemn such action in the strongest terms. But "evidence" - no matter how incriminating - provided by the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) should have been treated with extreme suspicion. In the Second Lebanon War, Eisner led soldiers in battle and helped extract a tank crew under fire. About a year ago, he helped a Palestinian woman give birth. The ISM, by contrast, has a history of high-intensity confrontations with IDF soldiers.