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Luckily it won't be able to "defend itself" with nukes 😌

He is a teenager. Not reservist. If anyone do whatever they want the army itself would be at risk. Also the vast majority of the army is not combat-oriented but focused on defense, intelligence, logistics, communication, medical services and more.

Usually not. They are reservists (their service isn't mandatory like it is for 18-21 year-olds).

Ok this is about actual refusals of many reservists due to a deep loss of identification with the values of Netanyahu’s government (translated with Google Lens)

Actually today - yes. Many refuse to do reserves but I will add to here what I read after I find it. Here is data about units inside IDF calling to end the war: https://x.com/restart_israel/status/1913233098356949215 The olive-green circles are IDF units, and the numbers are IDF serving members who participate in the official letters. No official refusal mentioned here but as far as I know many refuse, I will try to find the link to that too. You are right. Most ultra Orthodox refuse to enlist to IDF.

Yes (non-combatant)

To buy tons of weapon to the Palestinian authority, withdrawing from lands, international funding to the Palestinians and public mutual recognition. These are very high risks for Israel to be just "time purchasing".

Oslo agreement has only brought more terror inside Israel. hamas doesn't want any agreement or solution which recognize Israel's right to exist.

+1 🧡

Or maybe because she started to dress like a terrorist and to sound just like the evilness she wants to fight against.

She is harmless, but the perfect definition for irrational radicalism, with style and symbolism that are strongly associated with terror organizations.

Three state solution - Israel, Judea (constitutional seperation) and Palestine. The best one.

@Raze Even if you are stage green person in California, you will most likely have an hard time to care about mexican people if 3000 people of yours got killed from a terror attack came from there just a year ago. You would likely prefer to spread your caring on other issues related to emphaty and justice and such issues arent in absense inside your society's world. What doesnt come to justify indifference and the problems of it, but this filtering phenomena is common to human condition regardless of developmental levels.

@zazen Actually Moshe Yaalon did say 2 or 3 months ago "Ethnic cleansing" and Yair Golan also say many times in different ways that the continuation of this war doesn't represent our values and specifically talked about the babies who get killed. You can check out both senior's tweets through all the previous months they are quite repeat their messages in different words all the time.

Former Deputy Chief of staff and former Chief of staff (head of IDF) respectively.

@Raze Public opinion tend to fluctuate depending on the current events too.

The mind tries all the time to meet us with our unsolved issues, this is why any obssesive attachment to ideals (the issue doesnt matter) creates a backlash in our brain which knows we are compensating and running from something, what will cause him to bring us negative emotions that will be disguised in a judgmental behaviour towards others. Sooner or later our subconscious will notice the suffering this creates and will sense that a more flexible way of dealing with reality is needed.

The Left in its excesses is too judgmental, and this radiates into its own circles and onto those who try to engage with it. Our mind seeks freedom, variety and flexibility more than it wants to fight for certain ideals again and again and these basic psychological needs tend to win in the end.

But again, this kind of coasts over the civil and humane aspects - the bottom-up aspects that I see as the real and most significant factors shaping this alliance between America and Israel. I accept that the factors you mention play a role too, just not the major one in my opinion.

@Leo Gura Fair, and on the other hand hamas has proven to increase terror attacks especially in the form of suicide bombing inside Israeli cities, much more during or right after times of negotiations in order to make them fail, especially the key negotiation periods like 1993-4 and 1999-2000. That by itself indicates a higher probability that those negotiations were serious and honest, since hamas received those signals and responded to them seriously.

@Raze Israel has negotiated with their leaders under the governments of Rabin (1993-1995, intense efforts) Barak (1999-2001, intense) Sharon (2003-2005 moderate, less direct) and Olmert (2007-2008, intense) for a total of ~10 years.

You speak like the Middle East isn’t burning itself with Sunni-Shia wars.

This is not true. The ideological support is bipartisan and include shared liberal values between the Democrat and Center-Left sectors in US and Israel respectively, not any less than the Right wing parallelization.