When basically every Israeli is “Israeli troops,” it really doesn’t mean much.

I have an immigrant friend from a country (not Israel) with mandatory military service. He spent a year playing a French horn or something in a military band – whoop-de-fucking-do. But people like the article writer would have us believe that he’s equivalent to the most gung-ho zealot commando simply because he did the bare minimum of his legal obligation.

It’s just dishonest and unpersuasive to anyone who isn’t ignorant about Israel’s conscription policies.

Now, the part about them “openly calling for genocide” – that’s persuasive. But it would’ve been a lot more so if the writer hadn’t flushed their credibility due to the above.

Everyone potentially has a photo of them in the army, doesn’t mean much