🖋️ By Malik Mukhtar
📍 www.ainnbeen.blogspot.com
📅 July 12, 2025
The Arrow Missile Unit—Guardians of the Skies, Predators in the Barracks?
The Israeli Arrow missile defense system is supposedly the crown jewel of military technology—a symbol of national strength, deterrence, and precision. But now, Unit 136—the elite Arrow operators—are under the spotlight not for intercepting Iranian missiles, but for physically, psychologically, and sexually abusing their own comrades in the name of “initiation.”
You read that right.
Seven IDF soldiers have been arrested after a sickening pattern of hazing, humiliation, and alleged sodomy of at least ten junior recruits surfaced. While the Arrow missiles soar to shield Israeli airspace, the moral compass of its operators crashes violently into the dirt.
And yet again, Israel doesn’t need outside enemies to bring shame upon itself. Its own soldiers are doing the job splendidly.
Welcome to the IDF: Where Trauma Is the Welcome Kit
What kind of "defense" force greets its new recruits with forced humiliation, sexual violence, and intimidation?
According to credible sources from Ynet and Times of Israel, this isn't some rogue prank or isolated behavior—it was routine, structured, rehearsed abuse. The victims were terrified. Some were physically assaulted. Some were sexually violated. And the worst part?
It happened during active deployment, while the unit was supposedly defending the country from external threats. But as it turns out, the greatest threat to dignity and human rights wasn’t in the sky—it was inside the bunker.
Silence, Secrecy, and the Mask of “National Security”
True to form, the Israeli military police haven’t released any names. Neither of the perpetrators nor the victims. Accountability, like justice, has once again been detained without trial.
Israeli military courts are experts at hiding disgrace behind “security concerns.” When Palestinian civilians are abused, their names make headlines with mugshots and manufactured terror links. But when Israeli soldiers assault their own brothers-in-arms?
Suddenly, privacy laws, classified proceedings, and media gags flood the system.
This Isn’t New—This Is Normal
The IDF has a long, documented history of hazing rituals, rape culture, and unpunished sexual crimes:
- 2007: Several recruits in an elite paratrooper unit were hospitalized after being beaten during hazing.
- 2012: A female soldier accused her superior of rape—investigation delayed, charges dropped, no justice served.
- 2018: Dozens of conscripts in the Kfir Brigade reported systematic abuse. No commanding officer was punished.
- 2021: A viral video showed a soldier forced to strip and clean toilets with bare hands—command called it “misguided tradition.”
- 2023: A group of soldiers in an armored brigade were accused of assaulting mentally ill unit members as “jokes.”
- And now, 2025: Elite missile defense operators accused of sodomy and violent sexual abuse.
How many more before the IDF rebrands itself from “the world’s most moral army” to “the world’s most molested army”?
A Culture of Power Without Consequence
Let’s be clear: This isn’t just about seven soldiers.
It’s about a culture. A culture that glorifies domination—over Palestinians, over Arab neighbors, and clearly—over its own vulnerable recruits.
The same hands that press buttons to launch missiles are the ones that beat and violate young soldiers in locked barracks. And when caught, the army doesn’t purge them—it protects them.
What if the Victims Had Been Palestinian?
Imagine for a moment that those ten victims weren’t IDF recruits but Palestinian boys. Would the names of the accused be suppressed? Would the media tread carefully? Or would every detail be splashed across screens with the word “terror” surgically inserted in every sentence?
When victims are Arab, their screams are labeled “propaganda.”
When victims are Jewish soldiers, their trauma becomes a “disciplinary matter.”
Hypocrisy, thy name is Israel.
Final Arrow: A Nation Rotting from Within
This incident isn't just a scandal. It’s a metaphor.
A military obsessed with security—but blind to its own sickness.
An army that demands obedience, but breeds sadism.
A state that wraps every crime in a flag and calls it “defense.”
The Arrow missile may intercept threats from Iran, but nothing can intercept the collapse of decency, morality, and human dignity inside Unit 136.
If this is the army defending the so-called “only democracy in the Middle East,” then God help the recruits.
Because their enemies aren't across the border—they're right behind them, in uniform.
📌 Closing Thought:
When a soldier is safer facing incoming missiles than sleeping in his own barracks…
You’re not defending a country.
You’re defending a lie.
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