IDF Cadet Pretty Sure He Missed Knife-Planting Portion Of Training

His commanders have not exhibited understanding, or taken his complaint seriously.

Camp Schneller, June 4 – Private (First Class) Lior Amedi expressed near-certainty today that his basic training regimen for the combat unit he will soon join did not include the crucial component of planting knives near or on the persons of Palestinians who have been shot, to make it appear as if a stabbing attempt was made before the shots were fired.

The soldier, who will begin active duty with the Givati infantry brigade next week following his formal induction, conducted a careful review of his training with several comrades, and determined that none of them had been provided even the slightest instruction on knife-planting for use in covering up cold-blooded murder. Amedi shared his concerns that the training was not complete with two non-commissioned officers in the training corps, but was reassured that his unit’s regimen followed the same rigorous, comprehensive process as all previous ones.

“I’m more than a little confused,” confessed Amedi, 18. “I get my news from reliable sources such as Al-Arabiya, Al-Jazeera, Maan News, and other reputable Middle Eastern media outlets, and they’ve been consistently clear that the hundreds of Palestinians who have been shot in recent months by the IDF were innocent – that the Israeli military shoots first, then places a weapon in the vicinity of the victim’s body to make it look like self-defense instead of execution. But I haven’t received any training at all on such a procedure, which I’ve also been given to understand from the same sources that executing Palestinians and then framing them for terrorist acts  – not necessarily in that order – constitutes the bulk of IDF activity. There’s a serious lapse going on here.”

Amedi dismissed the notion that such procedures do not exist. “The military has official procedures for everything,” he noted. “If I’m going to be spending my time killing Palestinians and planting knives on or near them, I better be following correct procedure. A soldier can get in serious trouble for not following the proper guidelines.”

He lamented that his commanders have not exhibited understanding, or taken his complaint seriously. “I even asked my father, who until recently served in the infantry reserves, what he knew, and he couldn’t give me a straight answer, like he thought I was joking. I was dead serious – I don’t want to get in trouble.”

A friend finally suggested that Amedi contact the media operations that provided the information in the first place, especially the Palestinian Maan News Agency, which appears to be most familiar with procedures for false accusations of violence, followed by justifications for it.