General: 1 in 5 troops behave badly at roadblocks

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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/510815.html

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"Some 20 percent of IDF soldiers join the army with the preconception that Arab lives are worth less than Jewish lives - and subsequently behave improperly at roadblocks, the head of the Israel Defense Forces personnel branch, Major General Elazar Stern, said Monday.

Stern was speaking at a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee that convened to discuss human rights in the war on terror. He said it is impossible to wage war against terror with white gloves, and that it is impossible to speak about "purity of arms" without taking human life into account.

"Every generation needs to see itself as if it had come out of Auschwitz," he said.

"One must be strict about the value of human dignity," Stern said. "But human life is a value that is not less important, and perhaps more so. When I instruct others to take action that may harm an innocent man, I know how many lives I can save on the home front as a result."