{"id":206780,"date":"2021-06-17T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=205923"},"modified":"2021-06-17T09:00:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T09:00:57","slug":"battle-of-the-psyche-idf-personnel-suicides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/06\/17\/battle-of-the-psyche-idf-personnel-suicides\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Psyche: IDF Personnel Suicides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 April 2021 Israel Defense Forces veteran Itzik Saidyan attempted to self-immolate himself outside the Rehabilitation Department\u2019s office of the Defense Ministry with which he had been in disputation. Symbolically, he chose the eve of Israel\u2019s annual Memorial Day for \u2018fallen soldiers and terror victims\u2019. Saidyan had physical injuries and PTSD from frontline combat  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/17\/battle-of-the-psyche-idf-personnel-suicides\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/17\/battle-of-the-psyche-idf-personnel-suicides\/\">Battle of the Psyche: IDF Personnel Suicides<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/06\/17\/battle-of-the-psyche-idf-personnel-suicides\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 13 April 2021 Israel Defense Forces veteran Itzik Saidyan attempted to self-immolate himself outside the Rehabilitation Department\u2019s office of the Defense Ministry with which he had been in disputation. Symbolically, he chose the eve of Israel\u2019s ann&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206781,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206780\/revisions\/206781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}