Israel just arrested its top military lawyer — not for a crime, but for exposing one. The whistleblower told the truth… and now she’s the one in handcuffs. Right, so imagine being Israel’s top military lawyer — years spent defending the “most moral army in the world,” turning war crimes into paperwork as that entails, and then one day realising the paperwork itself is the crime. That was Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi. She leaked the footage from Sde Teiman — soldiers assaulting a bound Palestinian prisoner — she was the whistleblower. She resigned, vanished, was found, and was promptly arrested. The soldiers? Out on bail, arguing due process. The whistle-blower? Treated like a spy. That’s Israel’s most moral army for you though isn’t it? Aside from all of their misconduct on the battlefield, back at home t*rture gets court management; truth gets handcuffs. And the best part? The system thinks it’s proving its own integrity by prosecuting the only honest person in uniform. They tried to bury a whistleblower, and instead the state has indicted itself once more as amoral, bereft of legitimacy and where the crime of speaking out is the worst crime of all. Right, so Israel’s top military lawyer leaked proof of a war crime committed by her own state military, how mad a sentence is that at any time anywhere — yet instead of addressing what is a massive scandal in any other state, the system she served came for her instead of for the soldiers. Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi wasn’t some dissident clerk. She was the head of the army’s law machine, the woman who signed off every operation the politicians called legal. When she confirmed she’d leaked the Sde Teiman video — soldiers surrounding a restrained Palestinian prisoner and assaulting him — she didn’t just break secrecy. She broke the illusion that the law still ruled. She resigned last Friday. By Sunday she was missing, her car abandoned on a Tel Aviv beach, a letter at home that made her family fear the worst. Hours later police said she was safe. Then they arrested her. The soldiers stayed free; the lawyer went in cuffs. That’s Israel’s moral order laid out in sequence. Sde Teiman isn’t a secret any more. It’s a desert compound where Palestinians are dumped after raids — shackled, blindfolded, left unnamed. It is a place notorious for beatings, medical neglect and d*aths in custody.