Israel is a highly militarized society. Service in the Israeli Army, aptly named Israel Defence Force, is mandatory in Israel. By law, every 18 years old is drafted; young men are enlisted for a period of three years, young females are obligated to a 2-year period. After their release, they are enlisted for reserve duty, [...]
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Picture, if you will, a country in which people are forced to be wed and to divorce in religious courts; are unable to marry someone of a different religion; where religious legislation forces a certain weekday as the day of rest and prohibits the opening of most businesses; where state-funded public transportation operates buses in [...] Update: I dunno how I forgot this delicious bit of Irony, but Hamas just concluded its first full fledged battle against Islamic terrorism. Yeah, I said against. Some AQ flavored nutcase barricaded himself in a mosque in Rafah (southern tip of the Gaza Strip) and declared the Gaza Strip an Islamic Emirate, with strict sharia [...] As the resident Political Scientist on the blog, I thought it might be prudent to write my first post on an issue that might confuse non-Israeli readers of a blog that features the word “left” so prominently in its title. Throughout the civilized world, the word “left” means something on the continuum between social-democrats and communists. [...] |
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