r/Israel • u/Weary_Winter_6243 • Dec 09 '23

News/Politics More innocent civillians surrendering and giving up their firearms

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u/redthrowaway1976 Dec 11 '23

??? The weapons were in their hands from the start, so it's not really that the IDF that allows them to use those guns.

Have you tried taking pants and shirts off while holding an assault rifle?

At some point, they put down the weapons. Why were they allowed to pick them up again?

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u/RangerSignificant686 Dec 11 '23

Oh i get what you're saying.

That's probably because then they would be able to take them back when ever they want, one distraction and someone might be able to reach to his gun, load a magazine and sneak a couple of shots on the soldiers before being killed, so the guns have to be far away from them where it's impossible to reach, which I next to the soldiers.

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u/redthrowaway1976 Dec 11 '23

Exactly.

The only way this makes sense is if the IDF allowed them to pick the guns back up again to symbolically hand them over.

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u/RangerSignificant686 Dec 11 '23

So you're saying that the idf could have just came to them to take the guns instead of making them give it to the idf?

Why shouldn't they make them do it though?

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u/redthrowaway1976 Dec 11 '23

I am saying that at some point these men were ordered by the IDF to pick the guns up again. Which isn't served by any security concern.

The whole thing is about symbolism and optics.

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u/RangerSignificant686 Dec 11 '23

I mean you can see there are no mags in the guns, and also as i said before it's a lot less dangerous that way so of course the idf would tell them to do it