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Was there an actual idea in there?
by x220 8y ago
Was there an actual idea in there?
- remarkEon 8y ago"The prospect of only drafting men is not progress" is an empty, meaningless statement. You probably don't like the idea of the draft at all, and that's fine, but it's naive. If we don't make deliberate choices about this then they get made for us.
- ykevinator 8y agoNorway and Israel are not melting pots. It's not the same, their conscriptions are colored by race or religion.
- solatic 8y agoIsrael very much is a melting pot. Yes, only Jewish people are drafted. But that includes a wide variety of backgrounds - people whose families are from the Middle East, Russia, Ethiopia, the West (particularly recent French immigrants)... The drafting class takes people who grew up in completely secular homes and in religious homes. There's an ongoing political battle over whether to draft people from ultra-Orthodox backgrounds. Additionally, there are some ultra-Orthodox volunteers, as well as volunteers from the Bedouin, Druze, Circassian, and Christian and Muslim Arab minorities. Indeed, the IDF is what forges an "Israeli" identity within the melting pot of Israeli society.