The camel got it
There is just something about camel stories. A little remarked news story out of Israel. Ha’aretz:
A soldier from the ultra-Orthodox Nahal Haredi battalion of the IDF shot and killed a camel belonging to a Bedouin in the northern Jordan Valley on Friday. According to first reports, the shooting of the camel occurred after a dispute broke out between three IDF soldiers and the camel’s owner.
The soldiers left their base without authorization and entered the al-Malih Bedouin encampment. There they struck up a conversation with the owner of the camel. At a certain point, the conversation became confrontational and the soldiers got angry. As they left, one of the soldiers shot the camel.
You have to admit its rather a remarkable turn of events. The camel owner complained to the civil administration and an investigation is underway. There aren’t many details released to date but I suspect this is more to this than is reported and I kind of wonder if this has anything to do with the camel shooting.
