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Do Israeli Politicians' adult children get conscripted just like the average adult Israeli citizen as part of mandatory service? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yet, when they (black Jews) arrived in Israel, these distinctive people faced appalling discrimination, racism and a lack of empathy for their hardships in Ethiopia and during their journey to Israel.

The plight of Ethiopian Jews in Israel

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So did my parents (and many others) which emigrated from a soviet state after the fall of the soviet union. And they're very white.

Israelis are just xenophobic, this isn't white supremacy. There is a famous old Israeli skit about how every single group which arrived faced these issues. You guys are unknowingly spewing the same bullshit extreme right wing politicians are saying in Israel about Mizrahi Jews.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Good point about "white supremacy" being the wrong term used here. I agree that calling it xenophobia/racism is more correct in this case.