News Article from Israel

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The above article took place in Israel, but it has a connection to the U.S. because it deals with the U.S. army. A summary of the article is a Jewish soldier in the army has been hospitalized after he was forced to take off his kippa and prohibited from praying. The Army ruled the sergeants, including one who had served in Germany, were not guilty of anti-Semitism and simply did not know "what is allowed for religious accommodation within basic training." Monica Manganaro, spokeswoman for the base, said that the fight with the other trainee had no religious basis. She explained that the drill sergeants "would have put a stop to it immediately" if the dispute between the trainees had been based on religious prejudice.
The point of view of these people from the army seems to be that the scuffle was not a religious discrimination because the two sergeants that forced the Jewish officer to take off his kippa and prohibited him from praying and other people that were involved just didn't know what was allowed and what wasn't. The point of view of the writer of the article seems to be different because the way the writer titled the article and the way he/ she wrote it gives the reader the feeling that what happened was a Jewish discrimination but at the same time the writer is defending what was said about what happened.