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  • Why would anyone with a sense in one's mind to serve and protect a fake country? More and more young brave Israelies are awakening and abandoning the immoral religious foundantions that put this so-called country on the map.

  • Men serve 3 years, women 2 years, SEXISTS

  • Leftist morons are not needed in the IDF. God bless Israel and the IDF and all the allies.

  • May PEACE come very soon .....seriously..people often talk about how the Palestanians are the victims of this conflict. They don't realize the Israelis are also victims. If you are 18, 19, what are you doing in the army? you should be in university/college studying or travelling around the world...

  • people like this are stupid...

    if all the people evade the army we better of commit a mass suicide.

    and say goodbye to everything our ancestor fought and died for to our legacy and to our future as a free nation

    if you evade the army i consider you as a traitor who turned their back to hes land and if you turned your back to your land you will turn your back to your friends allso.

    you are disgusting i hope youl have a hard life.

  • Good for them for not joining the military. In USA we are required to register for selective service but many people just ignore it. The main reason is nothing happens when we ignore the requirement. Well technically something does happens but no one been prosecuted starting from 1985

  • Cowardice is catching. Let the faint of heart stay home. God will raise up a mighty army with or without cowards. Am Yisrael Chai!

  • i bet the Arab terrorists are happy now.

  • Following orders is stupid

  • we dont need you.

  • Sometimes you need a draft sometimes you dont. a country like America and Canada DOES NOT because young people could work instead and the army has enough people. A little country like Israel DID need the draft, but now that it grew so much and now that defense is now more about technology than men with rifles, the draft may be less necessary.

    As for america, haha we are far from needing a draft dont worry guys, there are more than a million in army and only have 150,000 in iraq.

  • @JanSobieskii Israel is a Jewish state whose main goal is to be a homeland for all the Jews, a safe haven from antisemitism and oppression. Since it has fought numerous wars, it cannot afford to take ANY chance when it comes to national survival. Besides, military service is now an integral part of Israeli culture.

  • also think about a draft in an american context. Would the american publish have rushed into iraq if everybody had family in the military? Easier to send someone elses kid off to die...

  • Actually with limited soldiers with the all volunteer military, soldiers are treated better and are not as expendable. With a draft the soldiers have less rights and with a limitless supply of soldiers, the soldiers become expendable.

  • Drafting young people is not right either. If the military wanted the best soldiers, they would draft 30 year olds. Men & women physically peak in their 30's and are more mature. I'm not saying that 18 year olds are not mature, but the vast majority are not yet.

    The state knows that they can subject 18 year olds easier to the draft than older people.

    I'm happy more people in different countires are standing up to this form of slavery. That's what it takes to end this.

  • See this is my problem with Israel (not the jewish religion or jewish people) is that they have the draft.  A draft has no place in a free society. That is why I consider Israel to be a tolitarian society.

    The jews have suffered the most under tolitarian societies (Nazi German, communist Russia). They should know better than to do the same policies that these mentioned countries have practiced. Israel would be better off with a all volunteer military like America has.

  • i suppose switzerland is totalitarian too?

  • Any country that has the draft/national service is totaliterian. Switzerland as well.

  • so mandatory contribution of ones time to national defense is totalitarian. is that on the basis of the military service or on the basis of the coercion used to secure it in your mind?

    Because if the coercion behind it is the basis for it's totalitarian label, then you could see the forced contribution of both time and money to a public education system as totalitarian. After all, who is the government to force you to enroll your children in a school?

  • Well if you like slavery so much have Canada revive the draft. If you don't know the difference between the school system, taxes, the draft/national service you will never.

  • Kids after a certain age can drop out of school, can be home schooled, can get a GED, etc. Schools serve a basic need of education.

    Taxes are used to pay for defense, roads, etc that are needed in a society.

    The military draft/national service is used by the state to enslave the people. An all volunteer military proves effective and works. People drafted in the military do not work. Don't use WW2 as an example because most would have volunteered if not drafted.

  • Schools serve a basic need of education, true. but it secures that basic need through coercive force, same as a draft. Don't pay your taxes and see where it lands you.

    and militaries, particularly for territorially insecure states provide a different basic need - sovereignty. Lose that and your public education system is worthless.

  • I said taxes to a certain extent are important.  All the draft is used for is to extend the state's power over the individual. People do not gain from being drafted.

  • isn't it achieved by the same means? That is you will contribute for the public good or spend time in prison? It just depends on what the state requires. Canada doesn't require a military service for much beyond fulfilling nato requirements and secure our northern territory.

    The principle is the same. Canada would be threatened by no health care so all are forced to contribute. The principle is the same with a draft. Is it not?

  • I am against forcing people to contribute. The draft is slavery. I would rather go to prison than be forced into slavery. The greater good is not served by a draft. Draftees make horrible soldiers and hurt the military.

  • i think if america had a draft that should be the type we have

  • The draft is nothing more than slavery and robs people of their basic freedoms. Israel needs to embrace the professional/all volenteer army instead of oppressing their own people.

  • didnt know it was a socialist country

  • kill all idf.

    fuck israel - burn in hell.

  • Music to my ears:)

  • Very interesting but what does Rowland actually mean by socialist country at the end of her report? I've never been to Israel so far but from what I've heard, seen and read Israel is just as much a capitalist society with a social net of sorts like the other rich countries.

  • This is unpatriotic.

    Sure, you won't see me joining the army, but I wouldn't dodge out of a draft.

  • i would

  • For the hebrew commenter, speak english or don't speak at all. XD

  • One thing to remember, however-- and you can clearly see from my other comments that I am not a supporter of Israel-- is that the Palestinians aren't any better. You don't think the same thing would be happening if the shoe was on the other foot?

  • Essentially in the mideast we are talking about a bunch of tribes fighting over limited resources just like they've done for time immemorial. I equate zionism with nationalism-- and it could be that the zionists do have more of a western national mentality, nevertheless the tribal dimensions of this conflict loom so large I am wrong strictly speaking when I do so.

  • It's great you're neutral, but why do some people keep talking about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict like it's some complicated soap opera?

    Israel = PLUNDER, ANNEX, DEMOLISH, COLONIZE, SETTLEMENTS

    Palestinians = DISPLACED, HUMILIATED, OCCUPIED, REFUGEES, BLACKMAILED

  • That's true, and it's also true that Jews lived in relative peace in Palestine before the state of Israel and the Arab displacement. Nevertheless I don't harbor any illusions that the Arabs would be better than the Zionists in the same circumstances. They are all infected with a monstrous tribal mentality and are capable of committing unbelievable atrocities.

  • When Muslim Arabs controlled Jerusalem, no other time in history have the Jews enjoyed tolerance and serenity in Jerusalem. Every bit of Israel is occupied Palestine. Jews have always been welcomed if they wish to live there, not usurp it.

  • Are you a liar because you are a Muslam or Muslam because you are a liar?

    Yehuda Halevi who wrote Zionida, reached Zion from far away Arab occupied Andalucia, and fell to his knees in prayer,"he recited one of his poems in praise of the city, only to be run over and killed by an Arab horseman leaving through the gate of the city."

    The Arab smote him but not the memory of him. IDF is there to protect those engaged in prayer.

  • A liar states fact, you Zio-Nazi Israeli apologist. Massacring civilians and forcing people out of their homes at gunpoint is hardly similar to protecting those engaged in prayer.

    Death to the Isreali occupation, long live people of Palestine.

  • if you don't know the facts - then shut your mouth.

    the palestinian terrorist shoot missiles from a civillians areas. if israel wanted they would kill every terrorist a minute after he lounch a missile. but most of them getting out allive because they uses inocent poeples as a human shield

  • The coward terrorist Zionist forces of the IDF have killed hundreds of Gazans within the past few months. If you like, I can arrange for you to debate on the state-sponsored terrorism of Israel. It will be recorded and posted on youtube. I'm sure people would love to hear you spew your stupidity on the web.

  • every single one of the inocent civillien that got killed in gaza was killed because the teroorist puts him in danger. i've been in the army and i know how strict are the rules of open fire. i saw in my own eyes a terrorist take a small child and use him as a human shield against the sniper. now who is the coward? the terrorist have no respect for life and no respect for the islam that say clearly that the human life are saint. so before you preach me, take a good look at the mirror. :)

    bye bye

  • You're a war criminal. Every single soldier is a modern day Jewish Hitler. You must feel proud about all the women and children you massacred on a daily basis, huh, ZioNazi?

  • i never shot on a inocint civillian. and i rather to shoot myself then to kill a small child or any other inocint person. you are getting all your information by the media. you never been there and you are not withness the true. take a minute to yourself and think why a nation that gone thrue the holocoast will do the same to another nation?? the palestinian chosen HAMAS as there leader. and HAMAS is a terror organisation that manipulate al the world. open your eyes man. tou have been brainwash.

  • Funny you side-stepped the debate challenge.

    War criminal.

  • Who bombed Japan massacring thousands of innocent people? The U.S.

    Who bombed an orphan house in denmark during WW2 because the intelligence thought it was a Nazi camp? The U.K.

    Any army that thinks so much before killing innocent people? The IDF.

    Israel's army is the most ethic army in the world - IT IS A FACT.

    Every time before an act,our officers debate and risk our own soldiers life so less of your "civilians" who protest against us die. Where can you see this in any other part of the world?

  • AND BY THE WAY!

    Don't hate me because of the facts I've brought about the UK and the US.

    I know how it's like to be completely helpless when you're Under attack, I live it daily (Like the US felt in Pearl Harbor). I don't support nuclear weapons, but I COMPLETELY understand why the US have done what they've done, and I'd probably do the same.

    Regarding the UK: in a war, like life-mistakes happen.

    The only difference between those two is that when you have an air fleet a mistake costs a lot more

  • Israel is losing that community spirit and becoming more individualistic (read: American).  I bet 30 years from now that Amalia chick will be Prime Minister of Israel.

  • Israel has it right in that respect. If you're an Israeli you actually have to face the consequences of what the government you help elect into office does with regards to military operations. Unlike here in the U.S. where Bush can go to war all he likes but no one cares because they don't have to fight it.

  • If a U.S draft was re-introduce then Jews would have no option though this is a difficult and senstive subject.

  • and muslims are training 10 year olds to wear bombs, so much for conscription and training...aaallahahahahahahah­ah.....BOOOOM!

  • nah all the good Israeli soldiers are the ones that continually kick the shit out everything the Arab nations can throw at them

  • The social and political culture of the Israeli citizenry is as diverse as any Western country.

    And this is the politic from human freemason and human Zionists. A Zionist is a freemason!

  • The social and political culture of the Israeli citizenry is as diverse as any Western country.

  • The biggest killer of IDF officers is suicide. I guess killing children and ruining lives isn't all that easy, even for soulless Israelis.

  • human shield IS an official israely commando tactical "invent"

    zionism is racism!

  • but when a government uses it at the disposal of killing innocent people that is wrong my friends. it is said the israel dares to kill civilians,and then unleash a mass propoganda of men using human shields, if anyone has sense and if anyone uses there mind then that certain person will realize the real truth.

    i rest my case~ abid, i dont hate jews i welcome anyone with an open heart but i do recognize those who are bad

  • maybe if the israeli government did not force its population into killing innocent palestinians and convincing the rest of the population that there is a threat( which of course is not israel but the defencless palestine) then maybe will the issue be resolved, compulsory draft is if anything good

  • zionist israely army so-called cahal kills palestinian children, this is a fact.

  • Maybe if the Palestinian fighters did not hide behind women and children, they would not get killed in the cross fire. If u think Israel purposefully targets children, then you have a gross misconception of thier goals. Take children out from in front of Palestinian fighers or the guns out of thier hands.

  • there are many incidents where troops drive armored vehicles into occupied territory and bulldozers to destroy family homes. children gather to throw rocks and israeli troops simply kill them, when there is no threat to the troops. when evicting two illegal families of settlers, the settlers throw urine and violently attack the police causing injuries. in this situation the police kill no one.

  • there is racist motivation behind this and the aggressive attempt at imposing apartheid on people in their own homeland is beyond justification. if the israelis want peace, they need to show it. they have chosen violent expansion of the "homeland" over peace. do not deny the crimes of a people, or they will never be able to recognize them and correct their savagery.

  • This makes me think of my dad's friend who during the Viet Nam war had a (pink) lawyer tell the military that he had done LSD and it brought out homosexual tendencies, clever draft tactic.

  • Maybe having those Hamas barbarians assembling on their border will wake them up.

  • Maybe being forced from your home, watching your family die, and being locked in a cage on your own homeland will wake up you Zionists... seems some people apply the term "never again" only to their own race or group. What's with that... stop abusing the Palestinians, stop destroying the land that is sacred and holy to everyone, stop being the same as Nazis and there wouldn't be resistance ... if they didn't fight back they'd share fate with the people herded in the gas chambers.

  • Sorry, moonbat, I'm not Jew. I'm just a guy who can recognize savage animals when I see them.

  • patsaga you don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.

    like I said ... Maybe being forced from your home, watching your family die, and being locked in a cage on your own homeland would wake you up

    p.s. may Jews oppose Zionism and the illegal creation of Israel

  • Hmm...I wasn't aware of this. Do I need to get some kind of licensing or a certificate?

  • Well, your Youtube page already certifies you that you're not a sharp tool.

  • yes yes, cussing makes u more respectable.

  • communism and fascism are polar opposites. fascism is the result of capitalist profit-mongers mobilizing governments for aggressive war profiteering at the expense of the people in that country (e.g. US and Israeli elites). communism, in theory, is suppossed to result in the dismantling of government and direct control of one's life, with no divisions with idiots claiming to be more "evolved". this is the ultimate democracy.

  • freedom of religion is a basic human right, and the so called "evolved" people who can not respect anothers personal choice only show how infantile and fanatic they are. to aggrovate people will only show your stupidity and disprove your point in the eyes of another.

  • The middle east, Christian, Jew and muslim alike, is doomed so long as the primitives therein continue to worship false gods. Throw away your books of myth and liberate yourselves.

  • umm yeah man, that experiment was done already, and it was called

    THE SOVIET UNION

    God isen't the problem

    its people who CLAIM to be FOLLOWING GOD is, those few screw it up

  • You can't force people to stop worship in gods. They must evolve on their own or they'll keep rattling their cages.

  • lol the blame socialism on national service? hahahah blame fascism.

  • The attitude of the Zionist leaders towards the Arab population of Palestine in the lead-up to the 1948 conflict is one of the most hotly debated issues in Zionist history.

  • Zionism is far beyond patriotism. They'd sacrifice the world for themselves = Zionism.

  • Al Jazeera = pro Islam

    Reuters is controlled by Islamic money.

    Anything to knock the only democratic state in the Middle East.

    Of the fifty-three Islamic nations on the planet, there is hardly a single one that isn't characterized by some combination of debilitating corruption, economic blight, third-world standard of living, political repression, or an appalling human rights condition.

  • debilitating corruption, economic blight, third-world standard of living, political repression, or an appalling human rights condition ... all in your own backyard jme197

  • Wherever sharia law has been introduced in modern times it has produced economic ruin, political chaos or bloodshed, or all three. e.g. Iran, sudan, Pakistan and Nigeria.

  • Israel is not a democracy, it is a cancer. NO Islamic nation has an Islamic governments. Once they do, they will return to their glorious days and be one entity. We shouldn't expect it to happen over night, but it will soon happen. At this rate of atrocities by Israel and the US in Iraq, it is only a matter of time before the sleeping giant awakes. As for Al-Jazeera, if you don't like it, don't watch it and stop crying. I suppose you support Bush's proposal to bomb their headquarter in Qatar.

  • Wherever sharia law has been introduced in modern times it has produced economic ruin, political chaos or bloodshed, or all three. e.g. Iran, sudan, Pakistan and Nigeria.

  • jme ... it is the corruption that exists in men. Bush claims he prays every morning when he wakes up, he wants to bring prayer to school, close abortion clinics, stop gays from marrying, and yet he will blow up Arabs and American troops in order to make his pockets grow. hypocrisies run rampant everywhere. And don't get me started on Zionists giving Judaism a bad image...

  • and wot evidence or proof do u have to support ur theory

  • Iran= suffers from sanctions and embargoes imposed by the US

    Sudan= suffers from sanctions and embargoes imposed by the US

    Nigeria= secular government which is facing opposition by the people to properly utilize its vast oil wealth.

    Pakistan= secular puppet government of the US, which bombs mosques and now the people call for Musharraf to give up his power and give democracy a chance.

  • You're as funny as the Muslims thinking everything is controlled by Jews. No wonder, the two groups deserve eachother.

  • VIOLENCE gets violence.

  • As an Arab i can understand Israel's point. They are still in war with most Arab countries, so they have to be prepared. That doesn't mean I agree with their a lot of their repressive politics. But I think their gouverment would be negligent if they didn't prepare their people for war.

  • "moving towards a professional army".

    What's that? Hiring blackwater mercenaries maybe?

    When a country has a population of 7 million people, and it has enemies on all sides, and constant terrorist attacks, its important to have all the manpower you can get.

    Imrievron... you live safely in your house because of the army and what those kids do to keep it safe.

    If everyone thought like you, you'd all be dead. coward

  • I am an Israeli conscience objector. I refused to join the IDF because I believe in non-violence and internationalism. Last October I refused the draft as a protest against the occupation, and as a result I was imprisoned. It was not an individualistic escape-from-society thing, but an act I felt I had to do because I care about my society and I want to stop the bloodshed that is killing our peoples (Israelis & Palestinians).

    And Israel was never socialist.

  • omri thank you for being a decent human, it makes hope live.

  • didnt you think you can make more difference from within the army? like if you see any humen rights being violated, to stop it, or to report it? its one thing to be anti-occupation, its another to not do your duty.

  • and u know nothing about creating ur enemies lol

  • Coward, obviously you know nothing of protecting your country.

  • In regards to all the people who scream genocide, first, stop degrading the meaning of that word. Second, If the Israelis were practicing genocide, why is it taking them 60++ years? You would think that after thier experience in the Holocaust they'd be experts at it.

  • Maybe they just aren't very good at it.

  • Well you just can't throw the Palestinians into ovens, although I have no doubt that you would be if you felt you could get away with it. And it might also be true that you don't desire the complete eradication of the Palestinians, just that they leave the land. So you're happy enough to slowly starve them off of it.

    After all the most precious identity Zionists possess is their sense of victimhood. I believe you'd do just about anything to keep from surrendering it.

  • out of hte 600,000 Palestinian refugess 23% saw an Israeli solider. OVer a million jews had ot flee muslims countries because of the conflict. Muslims denied jews access to the Wailing Wall before israel was made, and israel allows all faiths access to their holy sites.

  • no, just this year Israel hid the discovery of an old masjid they discovered. It is common knowledge that Jews have lived with Muslims and Christian Arabs as equals.... this conflict has split the holy land. Both groups have been through pain Ayeer...now what? what could stop the fighting, what do you think?

  • The only thing that will stop the fighting (and i know israel has done bad things since it "took power", not saying its innocent trust me) is one group losing. I believe israel will last a few centuries, but i will be broken eventually. The Arabs will win. The palestinian will never make peace, they are being used by other arabs and israel by the US. SO one has to lose.

  • Ayee .. I disagree, personally I think there can be unity, but we need justice, honesty, and forgiveness. The split "Israelis" and Palestinians can teach their children to look at each other as countrymen one day. They all love the land, it's possible for this common factor to help them love each other. Maybe use the USA as a model and create one country with 3 states, allowing exiled Palestinians return home. The important thing is to start, NOW.

  • Wont Work, its in the US's interest to have a Palestinian state, and peace, but not the neighboring Arab countries, so it wont happen.

  • A couple of centuries? Israel will last only as long as the U.S. is dependent of mideast oil, which hopefully won't be for too much longer. But even with the worst case scenario Israel will be friendless before the end of this century.

  • That's a terrible thing to say.

    Israel will survive. It has allies.

  • The issue: genocidal occupation of UN Trusteeship Territory Palestine. Israel under Likud dogma is National Socialist (NAZI- communism+fascism) state.

  • ahaha they should put that on fox news

  • ow it is surprising that the Israeli military spokeswoman accepted to help Aljazeera. IIRC in the recent Aljazeera documentary regarding Merkava tanks IDF refused to help aljazeera

  • what is Merkava danth?

  • Aljazeera documentary talking about Israeli Merkava Tank. first episode: youtube dot com/watch?v=LRePg43EafM then click "related" to view the rest of episodes. in the end of the documentary aljazeera said IDF refused to help them making the documentary

  • whoa. thank you very much. that was a good report! I can't wait until Aljazeera English is offered on by my cable provider, if they don't I'm going to end up ordering cable on off the internet....

  • Many Israelis are against this Zionist machine, and I am proud of them.

  • What but many highly religious Zionist Jews don't serve in the army. Maybe they don't serve cause they view it as secular and against Jewish law ever thought of that?

  • brick .. ? I am not talking about any Zionists, at least not Zionists who are killing Arabs in order to ethnically cleanse OUR holy land when we are ALL God's children, and all Palestinians. Jesus was born and raised in Palestine, and Jerusalem is important not only to Jews or Zionists. When Arabs controlled the land they never prevented pilgrims from coming to worship... Zionists came and huge walls and barbed wire lock the natives in cages.

  • That wasn't the point of my post, you clearly missed.

  • Isn't saying zionist Jew an oxymoron, like Nazi Jew. How to those words go together. Doesn't some one essentially give up their commitment to Judaism, in actual fact, when they adopt the political ideology of zionism?

  • In your dreams!

    99% of the jews around the world are zionists.

    so plz stop lying!

    long live israel!

  • get your facts straight. have you ever heard of neturi karta?

  • yep.

    neturi karta is a tiny radical jewish group of less then 10.000 ppl. most of them are living in USA.

  • yeah but claiming that 99% of jews around the world are zionist is just a false claim.

    there is also a neturei carta community in jerusalem.

  • no it's not a false claim it's a fact!

    if you against Zionism you against the state of Israel as a jewish state.

    therefore you can't live in Israel as a jew

    and at the same time to be anti zionists.

    even the lefties in Israel consider themselves Zionists.

    Zionism = Patriotism

  • so you think that all of the 5 to 6 million jews in the united states are zionist?

    you need to look outside youre bubble.

  • of course,most of the jews in USA care about Israel.

    Israel is the second home of every jew around the world.

    if bad times will come they know that they have a safe shelter here.

    holocaust/inquisition/pogroms/ will never happene again!

  • My uncle and cousin are both graduates of West Point, and they are Jewish they fought with honor for the US; I just don't understand why other American Jews do not, yet join the IDF.

  • Zionism=nationalism=Nazism. Is this what you call patriotism?

  • infinit12 are you Israeli?

  • yes.

  • Jewish,Muslim,Christian?

  • jewish.

  • .תתבייש לך

    .אתה גרוע יותר מהאויבים שמקיפים אותנו

  • listen dont even go there. i served my time in the army and did my miluim. i just hate it when people state utter crap as facts.

    your mentality is just like the cold war era you are either with us our against us. please get a grip.

  • לא מעניין אותי מה שעשית בעברך

    .אני רואה מה שאתה עושה עכשיו ומתבייש

    .אני כלכך שמח שבחרת לעזוב אותנו

  • listen douche bag all i was saying is that there are many jews who are not zionist, and by claiming that 99% of them are you are wrong.

    and besides i never once said that i am anti zionist.

    dont be so quick to judge.

  • בסדר אידיוט

    תמשיך לעזור למאות אלפי המוסלמים הקיצונים שכאן לסלף את האמת על

    .ישראל

  • and exactly how am i helping?

    i give up this is going nowhere. enjoy living a paranoid state of mind the rest of your life.

  • So you're saying that 99% of jews aren't even really jews. And you're bragging this?

  • Who said they aren't Jewish?

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