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The Israeli public and presumably politicians are very perturbed because some soldiers forced a Palestinian man to play the voilin at a checkpoint. Their concern was that Jewish suffering in the Nazi death camps where similiar events had occured had been diminished. Yoram Kaniuk, author of a book about a Jewish violinist forced to play for a concentration camp commander, wrote in Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that the soldiers responsible should be put on trial "not for abusing Arabs but for disgracing the Holocaust". "Of all the terrible things done at the roadblocks, this story is one which negates the very possibility of the existence of Israel as a Jewish state. If [the military] does not put these soldiers on trial we will have no moral right to speak of ourselves as a state that rose from the Holocaust," he wrote.
A soldier who emptied his machine gun into a 13 year old girl caused less concern a few weeks ago. He was charged with a minor infraction.