Arab IDF soldier: 'I love this country and want to contribute'

[xyxmt]

they say that about jews,they had problems with jews long time before israel was even exist.
they wrong about what? i just don't understand the question

Jews, Muslim and Christians lived peacefully for 1000 of years before Israel. They have problem with Israel who happen to be Jews but not with Jews.

 

[Mentee]

Out of the 175,000 active IDF soldiers are several hundred Arab Israelis who have chosen to serve.

A battalion of soldiers crawls across the desert sand with assault rifles cocked. It's a routine exercise, but these are no ordinary troops - they are Arabs who have chosen to fight for the Jewish state.

While the vast majority of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are Jews - and nearly all their conflicts have been against Arab nations - a trickle of Israeli Arabs volunteer for the army.

Most are Beduin, a community native to southern Israel. But some are other Arab citizens of Israel, the descendants of Arabs who remained in Israel during and after the 1948 War of Independence.

"Why did I decide to enlist?" asks Sergeant Yusef Salutta, a 20-year-old Arab from the north of Israel who serves with the Desert Reconnaissance Battalion. The army rarely grants journalists access to the unit.

"Because I'm from this country and I love the country and I want to contribute," he said. "Everyone should enlist, anybody who lives here should enlist."

The military conscripts young Jewish men and women, but not Arabs. It does not report exact numbers of Arab volunteers, but officials say there are several hundred among the 175,000 active personnel.

A silver Star of David necklace hung around Salutta's neck, and he chatted with fellow-soldiers in Hebrew.

Still, some Israeli Arabs see volunteering for the military as betrayal.

"This phenomenon, we totally reject it," said Ahmad Tibi, an Israeli-Arab member of parliament.

"What could go through a person's mind when he serves against his people? We try to educate people that this is not the way."

Volunteers say their families are supportive, and that they are prepared to take criticism.

"I don't care about them," said Salutta. "I need to be part of the country, to be like everybody else."

His friend, 20 year old Sergeant Saleh Khalil, also from a village up north, said his contribution to the army may help his future.

"I enlisted in order to contribute to the country, because I live in this country. The country helps us and I will have a good future," Khalil said.

The head of the IDF Minorities Unit, Colonel Wajdi Sarhan, said some Israeli-Arabs saw service as a way to improve their chances in life.

"(It) can get easier when you hold an Israeli soldier or reservist ID card," said Sarhan. "To be a soldier in the army, it's actually an identity certificate of Israeli-ness, which can help integration."

He said some recruits faced threats and harassment at home from fellow Israeli-Arabs. In some cases, they are allowed to travel to and from military duty out of uniform.

When it comes to Israel's decades-old conflict with Palestinians, there is no question - if they are required to fight, they must.
"Anyone who decided to be a combat soldier in such a unit took this into consideration in advance," said Sarhan.

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/A-look-at-Israeli-Arabs-in-the-IDF-474592

@Archdemon @Natan @Solomon2 @500 @mike2000 is back

So, Arab Muslim would certainly like an Arab Jew , what's the big deal here . Both are allegedly Semitic --------

@Signalian @Doordie @war&peace @tps77 @RealNapster

 

[Djinn]

So, Arab Muslim would certainly like an Arab Jew , what's the big deal here . Both are allegedly Semitic --------

@Djinn @sarge @war&peace @tps77 @RealNapster

No don't remind them that....otherwise they will start quoting you several of their intentionally fabricated sources.

 

[Shapur Zol Aktaf]

it's true what you said and i will add more,
we were never identified as tats,when the persians called us "tats" they were meant "stupids" .
we came to the caucasus from south west persia and we came to persia from babylon and to babylon from israel
we developed our language juhuri when we were in persia,thats why it has similarities with ancient persian.
the reasom we moved to the caucasus from persia it's because the persian tried to kill us.

Could you give me the source about the statements you made?

Also could you explain me why the muslim Tats who were called themselves Tat would use that term for a certain nation to say they're stupid? Doesnt make sense!

To me it sounds like ridicolous invented lies, but I'm open minded and ready to accept it as truth if you provide a credible source.

 

[RealNapster]

So, Arab Muslim would certainly like an Arab Jew , what's the big deal here . Both are allegedly Semitic --------

@Signalian @Doordie @war&peace @tps77 @RealNapster

How dare You Khomeini .

 

[19887]

Could you give me the source about the statements you made?

Also could you explain me why the muslim Tats who were called themselves Tat would use that term for a certain nation to say they're stupid? Doesnt make sense!

To me it sounds like ridicolous invented lies, but I'm open minded and ready to accept it as truth if you provide a credible source.

my family and other mountain jews families,and i think you can google it and maybe you will find more information

Jews, Muslim and Christians lived peacefully for 1000 of years before Israel. They have problem with Israel who happen to be Jews but not with Jews.

do you realy don't know history?lived peacefully for 1000 years??

 

[Shapur Zol Aktaf]

my family and other mountain jews families,and i think you can google it and maybe you will find more information

You're spreading disinformation and I've to find out if your lies are true? Are you serious?


Your family is inventing history. Nowhere I've read such nonsense.

 

[Mamluk]

do you realy don't know history?lived peacefully for 1000 years??

Yes.

You know who lifted the Roman ban on Jews from inhabiting Jerusalem? Caliph Umar (RA) after conquering Palestine and kicking the Romans out.

 

[19887]

You're spreading disinformation and I've to find out if your lies are true? Are you serious?


Your family is inventing history. Nowhere I've read such nonsense.

so don't believe to what i said,i realy don't care about that

Yes.

You know who lifted the Roman ban on Jews from inhabiting Jerusalem? Caliph Umar (RA) after conquering Palestine and kicking the Romans out.

and?

 

[Mamluk]

so don't believe to what i said,i realy don't care about that


and?

Muslims and Jews coexisted peacefully.

 

[19887]

Muslims and Jews coexisted peacefully.

depend when and where

 

[Mamluk]

depend when and where

Mostly peacefully. Jews lived quite happily within the Ottoman Empire. Anti-semitism did not exist in the Muslim world.

 

[19887]

Mostly peacefully. Jews lived quite happily within the Ottoman Empire. Anti-semitism did not exist in the Muslim world.

it's 100% lie what you wrote

 

[Attila the Hun]

Muslims are only happy when they kill other Muslims it seems.

 

[Tps43]

So, Arab Muslim would certainly like an Arab Jew , what's the big deal here . Both are allegedly Semitic --------

@Signalian @Doordie @war&peace @tps77 @RealNapster

taali dono hatho sa bajj rahi hai
Most of M.E is full of munafiqat