How a scandal over a gruesome torture video has shaken Israel

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Whether or not that argument succeeds, Israel's reputation as a country with the rule of law is once again in the dock.
47% : If leaking the video was sufficient to end her stellar legal career in the IDF, allegedly lying about it to Israel's top court could be enough to land her in jail.
47% : It was the investigation into the IDF's soldiers that first prompted backlash from senior figures within Israel's government.
44% : The video of the abuse at the Sde Teiman detention facility was first aired last year by Israel's Channel 12 and led to an investigation.
44% : She is due to be questioned by police this week over her actions, and after significant concerns for her welfare when her car was found abandoned near a cliff-topped beach near Tel Aviv, officials said she had been found "alive and well".
40% : It follows the significant public disquiet over the dismissal of Ronen Bar, the director of Shin Bet, Israel's internal security agency, earlier this year after he launched an investigation into accusations of Qatari influence-peddling among Netanyahu's staff.
40% : The worry is that while Israel has always had rumbustious politics, the neutrality of its professional military and security services, which have traditionally remained sacrosanct, is under threat.
37% : On Sunday, Netanyahu characterised the fallout from the leaked video as "perhaps the most severe propaganda attack against the state of Israel" in its history.
37% : The abuse allegations, after all, were the last thing the government needed, with Israel's international reputation tanking due to the brutality of the Gaza campaign and war crimes indictments for Netanyahu in the offing.
36% : Israel Katz, the defence minister, said that anyone who fabricates "blood libels against Israeli soldiers was unworthy of donning IDF uniform".
36% : For critics of Netanyahu, the so-called "MAG affair" shows that having allegedly tried to politicise Israel's judiciary, leading to months of protest before the war, he is now trying the same with the military.
35% : It is not exactly clear from the leaked footage what is happening, but the Palestinian man - a suspected terrorist, Israel says - was later admitted to hospital with severe injuries to his ribs and rectum.
34% : However, before the inquiry could take its course, the leaked video prompted a backlash from politicians on the right, including those close to Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, who dismissed accusations against the guards as a "blood libel".
32% : Maj Gen Tomer-Yerushalmi's rapid fall from grace has shocked Israel.

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