I feel terrible for this guy's family. He immigrates into Israel from Ukraine, joins the IDF as a Christian, fights and falls in Gaza while serving as a combat engineer.
He is buried with a cross on his grave, but his family notices his grave is covered with a black cloth during other internments.
There's low, and then there's this.
This is why I cringe every time someone speaks about our "Judeo-Christian" principles as a country. We have Christian principles, that's it. If we were to act more like Israel we wouldn't be in anywhere near the trouble as a country we are today.
https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-825638
He is buried with a cross on his grave, but his family notices his grave is covered with a black cloth during other internments.
There's low, and then there's this.
Quote:
The Defense Ministry is attempting to reach an agreement with the family of St.-Sgt. David Bogdanovsky, who fell in battle in the south of the Gaza Strip in December, to remove a cross from his headstone.
"By law, it is not permissible to place a cross or any other religious marker on a military headstone," the Ministry said.
Quote:
Earlier this month, Bogdanovsky's mother visited his grave and found that his headstone had been covered in black cloth while a ceremony was taking place for those killed on October 7, Ynet reported.
"I don't have words to describe the humiliation I felt," she told Ynet.
"I thought that my David, who gave his life to the country, who loved the country with all his heart for nine years, since his aliyah, who joined the IDF to defend me, his family, and all of us, is no different than any of the other guys, [and] is not a second-class citizen. I stood there and cried with anger, frustration, and not understanding," she said.
This is why I cringe every time someone speaks about our "Judeo-Christian" principles as a country. We have Christian principles, that's it. If we were to act more like Israel we wouldn't be in anywhere near the trouble as a country we are today.
https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-825638