Israel and Iran

The "famine" that wasn't"

Data used for Gaza famine claims changing as expert cautions 'no one seems to be trying to explain why'

Famines are typically not failures of supply, they're failures of distribution. It was the same in Somalia; there was plenty of food, it just wasn't getting to where it needed to be. Compound that with an active violent insurgency, and a terrorist organization that is perversely very interested in making things as hard as possible on their own people for the propaganda value, and you have... the mess that is Gaza.
 
Some people like to talk about the "universal draft" in Israel, but it's far from "universal." Arab-Israelis do not have to enlist. Druze men do not have to enlist, although many of them do. Same with bedouins. And, up until now, ultra-orthodox Israeli Jews did not have to enlist. Given the burgeoning demographics of Arabs and Ultra-Orthodox, a smaller and smaller percentage of Israel's population has had to bear the burden of national defense.

Some of that may be about to change:

Israel's Supreme Court rules ultra-Orthodox men must serve in military in unanimous decision
 
Marauder06 said:
Some people like to talk about the "universal draft" in Israel, but it's far from "universal." Arab-Israelis do not have to enlist. Druze men do not have to enlist, although many of them do. Same with bedouins. And, up until now, ultra-orthodox Israeli Jews did not have to enlist. Given the burgeoning demographics of Arabs and Ultra-Orthodox, a smaller and smaller percentage of Israel's population has had to bear the burden of national defense.

Some of that may be about to change:

Israel's Supreme Court rules ultra-Orthodox men must serve in military in unanimous decision
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I'm honestly torn on this.

On the one hand, it's good that the obnoxious free-loader class of Israeli society has to actually do something productive. Most of my friends in Israel have nothing but disdain for the orthodox and it's easy to see why when all they do is sit home and read books, procreate, and have their wives do all the manual labor around the house, while being a pain to those around them, both Jew and Gentile. Also, they tend to create a disproportionate amount of laws that other Israeli's have to abide by.

However, that also means that more units like the Netzah Yehuda are potentially going to be in existence...and I really don't think that is a good idea. Those guys tend to have the Deuteronomic mindset of,

"When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you— and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy."
-Deut 7:1-2

Which...is a problem.
 
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