Sde Teiman walkout lays bare an Israeli military running out of trust

Nearly three years of open-ended war have made obedience inside the Israeli military increasingly conditional and contested.

Palestinian political analyst and researcher from inside Israel.

The same Israeli military base that right-wing activists once stormed to shield soldiers from military investigators now watched those soldiers stack their rifles in a heap and walk out on their own commander.

On July 30, roughly 100 soldiers from the Givati Brigade’s Tzabar Battalion left Sde Teiman without permission after their battalion commander took a sledgehammer to the decorative plaques they had hung.

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