Do Israeli Politicians' adult children get conscripted just like the average adult Israeli citizen as part of mandatory service?

cheese_greater@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 121 points –

I was just reading about how a current Israeli war minister’s son died in combat and it made me wonder that if Israeli’s politicians who make these decisions know their family will be affected by it personally and directly, does that lend towards the suggestion that it is more likely they are making genuinely ethically and morally correct decisions to engage in war stuff given their personal skin i the game?

It would seem totally different from American politicians like Cheney who create bullshit geopolitical conflicts knowing full well their progeny will never be touched by it…

Edit: I'm assuming they actually care/give a shit about their offspring and family, even if only just for appearences

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we were pretty much raised drenched in the same kind of propaganda

"pretty much" being the key words, since the white people who colonised SA had never set foot there before nor had any history or claim to the land, while that absolutely isn't the case for Jewish people returning to their homeland.

since the white people who colonised SA had never set foot

Neither has the Europeans who colonised Palestine and created Israel, Clyde.

while that absolutely isn’t the case for Jewish people returning to their homeland.

European Jewish people's "homeland" is Europe, genius. You know... the place where they were born and lived for more than a millenium before western antisemitism drove them out?

There is no valid Zionist "claim" to any part of the middle-east - never was, never has been. You might just as well "claim" Jerusalem as "western" because the Crusaders massacred it's population once.

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