Video: The Belly-Dancing Israeli Soldier and the Bound Palestinian Woman

UPDATE 5 October: There is also media attention this morning to the vandalism and burning of a mosque by Jewish settlers in the West Bank village of Beit Fajjar. Korans were also set on fire in the incident.

I was in two minds about whether to post this clip, which came out on YouTube, was picked up by an Israeli television station --- which has just broadcast a programme on the incident --- and has been reported by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

The episode occurs in the context of other recent cases, including pictures posted by a former Israeli soldier in which she posed beside a bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoner and the arrest of three soldiers for taking photographs of themselves alongside cuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainees.

The Israel Defense Forces have ordered an investigation of the most recent incident.

In the end, I decided to post this not as a specific indictment of the Israeli military --- that can be debated amongst readers --- but as a reminder of what happens when one group, in its occupation, wields power over another, such as the Abu Ghraib case in Iraq.

Warning: This video may be disturbing to viewers.