Perhaps John Kerry could learn a thing or two from South Korean megastar Psy — because it looks like all we needed was a little party up in this peace process.
A video (embedded below) was posted online this week of at least two armed and suited Israeli soldiers dancing to “Gangnam Style” at a crowded Palestinian nightclub. Locals look on in delight, taping the unlikely spectacle on their smartphones, hoisting the soldiers into the air and grabbing onto their hands for joint fist-pumps.
The IDF doesn't see things quite so peachily. An official told the soldiers that were involved and participated in the party have been suspended pending an investigation,” and this statement was released to the “This is an incident of utmost severity. The soldiers have been called in for questioning, and the commanders of the brigade and the battalion are investigating. The soldiers [in question] will be dealt with appropriately.”
The usual pundits are having trouble making sense of all this happiness. Channel 2 and the far-right crowd are furious that IDF soldiers would so casually mingle with the enemy (Palestinians at the club reportedly included some members of the pro-Hamas Jabari clan) and risk igniting another tiff in the territories. Meanwhile, the far-left and normally verbose +972 Magazine was , and many commenters writing in Arabic on YouTube argued that this was just another way for Israel to overshadow its atrocities.
Oh, well. Haters gon' hate.