The example of the officer who went wrong

Haaretz Sunday 29th April, 2012

The veteran journalist Israel Harel has admitted in these pages that he came out in defense of violent Lt. Col. Shalom Eisner because he was pressured by someone from his own milieu. ("Sacrificed on the altar of PR," April 19 ). In the end, Harel obeyed the man he called B., whose views, he said, were "well considered and highly regarded." In a harsh tone unusual for him, Harel presented the brute Eisner as an exemplary individual who, like o...

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