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Video of belly-dancing Israeli soldier goes viral

A YouTube video of an Israeli soldier belly-dancing around a blindfolded Palestinian woman was broadcast on a late-night Israeli news program.
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October 5, 2010

A YouTube video of an Israeli soldier belly-dancing around a blindfolded Palestinian woman was broadcast on a late-night Israeli news program.

The video went viral after its broadcast on a Channel 10 news program shortly before midnight on Monday. As of Tuesday afternoon in Israel the video had more than 44,000 views.

The video is not new; it was uploaded on April 20, 2008. The poor-quality footage shows a soldier dancing to Arabic-sounding music around a bound and blindfolded Palestinian woman. He brushes up against her several times, as he smiles for the camera.

Hundreds of comments going back several months slam Jews, Israel and the Israel Defense Forces in profanity-laced statements.

The video comes to light more than a month after a former female soldier posted photos to Facebook showing her posing smiling next to a blindfolded Palestinian prisoner. In late August, four soldiers were indicted after taking pictures of themselves pointing their guns at a Palestinian prisoner.

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