How Israel May Lose Its Military Hegemony in the Middle East
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Israel's army has a very particular characteristic: they are one of the armed forces with the highest ratio of reservists to available troops. This allows them to mobilize an extremely large army very quickly, especially considering Israel's small demographic size.
Now, however, the military reserve could be in danger: compulsory service in the army is becoming less and less popular in Israeli society. In this video we tell you how the key pillar of the Israel Defense Forces works and also the threat it now faces.
#Israel #Military #VisualPolitik
Honestly this video has nothing to do with the title.
Bro , in UA-cam click bate titles is law
Agreed. It sort of built up quite well initially, and then ended a dud!!
You are very correct..what a garbage title lol
It's hard to mobilize an entire population for more than a few weeks without doing long term damage to the economy. They wouldn't do well in an multi-year campaign
Israel doesn't have multi-year campaigns, with the exception of the Lebanon Debacle
@@neptune3569 I would say that with Lebanon and Israel ready for a rematch that it is a relevant observation.
@@joehobo2189 You're right.
Your not accounting for the Zionist wealth.
@@markb8426 Can you try to sound more antisemitic, please?
It's a fight between those who don't have anything to lose and those who have everything to lose...
Who will win
@@gokulkrishna4011only god knows who will win
@@yanlinhtun5955 The person who is willing to risk it all and go all out will win
@@gokulkrishna4011 I agree
The Palestinians has everything to lose
What about the fact that one part of the Israeli society is exempt of military duty.... maybe thats one of the reason why suport is declining .
You are 100% correct... the non-Haredi population remain overwhelmingly supportive.
2 parts of Israeli society, Haredim and Arabs.
@@austinsmith8584 The IDF even has Bedouin Arabs...Which Arabs are refusing duty?
@@houseplant1016 some volunteer but Arabs never have never been conscripted like the Haredim. Some Haredim do serve but not in large numbers
The Druze and Circassians are different and do serve in the military. Most Arabs are not Bedouin and not even half of the Bedouin do serve. These numbers have increased in recent years but it wasn’t really an issue because the army thought it didn’t need that many people.
Their is something called sheriut Leumi national service which some Arabs, religious women serve. This is in hospitals or special needs schools
@@austinsmith8584 I know, but I mentionned it because even fellow Arab nations have trouble keeping the bédouins under control, while the IDF (miraculously) manages to enroll more and more each year.
I presume you're talking about Muslim Arabs or do Jewish Arabs also neglect the duty?
The religious exemption for the fundamentalist Jewish groups would cause a lot of resentment among the secular population. It would annoy me to put my life on hold to protect my country whilst someone gets a pass to attend a religious school.
as someone who served and is in reserves, it is immensely frustrating and the issue is coming to a head.
no longer will the serving population allow these people to receive government grants, whilst not contributing their part.
@@yosefyisrael12 actually, the zionist population in isreal aren't having enough babies. Isreal needs to stay ahead in population or the palestinians might over throw them (or so they think) So Isreal literally pays the orthodox jews to have lots of kids. It isn't becuase isreali gov likes them better, or is just being nice. There's a reason behind what every government does.
@@gerri577 Lol, thats what they claimed in the 1980's. After a huge influx of immigrants from the USSR, Ethiopia, India, and now Western Europe, plus the fact that Mizrahi Jews have an average of 3.1 children per couple (half the population), and Orthodox Jews 5 children per couple they no longer worry about that scenario.
Except for the fact that since Oct the 7th Orthodox volunteers to the IDF have tripled, and volunteers for Magen David Adom (Israel's Red Cross), is off the charts.
Yes but the opposite is also true. The secular fundamentalists are apoplectic at the number of the national religious who are joining the military and are increasingly becoming part of the officer corps.
Technological dependence does not make strong armies! Vietnam, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and now Israel. Tough soldiers led by competent officers does.
No soldier should commit war crimes.
Its not a war crimes if it's never been done before ask Canada
@@darthjarjar3152 So u r saying romans had the right to destroy 2nd temple?
@_apon do you think it was justified for the Roman's to destroy the second temple? Or for Muhammad to destroy the idols in Mecca? Would it be justified for Israel to destroy Al-Aqsa? Or for Muslims to force all Jewish people out of the middle east entirely? For one these aren't war crimes from my understanding. Regardless if it is a war crime or not does not mean it's right or wrong. These things are subjective. Objectivity of right and wrong rarely applies in people's logic when it comes to faith, race, or politics. My comment was a joke, because most of what is considered a war crime today had been committed in the past but those events go unpunished because they weren't considered war crimes then. So if you develop a new way then by our own international standard it wouldn't be criminal.
@@darthjarjar3152 Destruction of 2nd temple was unjustified How ever destruction of idols in Kaba was justified because Idols were forbidden in Abrahamic religions.
And yet, American, Canadian, British soldiers did so in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Arab armies commit war crimes as a routine against foreigners and domestics
Part of the problem is that politicians split the population and mount them against each other. The reform of the judicial system was just one such example.
There is also a difference between fighting for your land and fighting for a settlement.
@@manup1931
According to Hamas, all Israel is a settlement.
Actually the opposite is kind of true. Most political parties supported some form of judicial reform right until Netanyahu was in a position to actually do it. Then the CIA and Western financers stepped in to launch a coup against Netanyahu. The protests were not about judicial reform. They were about a left-wing oligarchy having complete control of Israel and preventing democracy
Leftist Jews want to keep the courts left wing. They lost. 64 For Likud, whic won. Leftist hate democracy.
@@ronmaximilian6953Like Euro Maidan Protests funded by George Soros
I mean you forgot to mention how many are disgusted by the atrocious they are being forced to commit, and they realize that they have been mislead and are looking for a better and human approach...
Ameen.
On the subject of conscription, one of the more interesting cases is that of Singapore. It continues to maintain a conscription system and large base of reservists; resulting in one of the highest total number of military personnel per capita in the world when including reservists (approximately 50 per 1,000 or 5% of the population). Yet, unlike the likes of Taiwan or the two Koreas, Singapore is in a relatively stable geopolitical situation where it does not have any major nearby adversaries that it has to be prepared to defend against.
It's an impressive country. They're led by the most qualified and do what's the most beneficial and good for its people and country as a whole. That does include some uncomfortable policies though such as forced conscription, but that's making a comeback in a lot of countries at the moment.
USA base nuff said.
@@jdoyle2475 Shouldn't that reduce the need to maintain a military, not increase it?
Singapore is a lovely place as well. The cleanest place I ever visited but are strict in rules. Does not surprise me that they have a high military IQ.
Singapore's armed forces are ostensibly for defense rather than for domestic policing or occupation (if Singapore kept 2 million stateless Malays locked-up in a ghetto on the Straight it'd be a different situation).
Same old story--prosperity breeds laxity, laxity breeds destruction.
nonono, arrogance and depravity breed destruction. When you wage wars of choice, make enemies of your neighbors, and cause mass suffering pretending your enemies are lesser than you, you invite retaliation of some kind, and if you retaliate to that retaliation by escalating, your enemies will escalate, and given Israel is outnumbered and outgunned it cannot afford to make an enemy of the entire Middle East, and the US can't afford to get involved in fucking with the Middle East yet again. Keep in mind, if everyone used Israel's logic, we'd be in a nuclear winter right now. Anyways, Israel has waged 2 many wars of choice, now its neighbors are all enemies, or on the verge of becoming enemies, and it keeps using up its armaments on devastating wars that strengthen the armies of their enemies.
@forwadnothing8212
"2 many wars of choice" has brought us closer to a nuclear winter you say? Well...
Those pesky Jews just won't lay down and die like in the old days. Sorry.
@forwadnothing8212 What war of choice?
Israeli neighbors are de jure at war with Israel. Only Egypt and Jordan had made uneasy peace, subject to break at any show of weakness on the Israel part.
Just like Europe nowadays, conceit and complacency and decadence from peace and prosperity and security . Well said Steven Henthorne.
We will all have to move on mentally from the 1940s or be violently moved into a new era...
Visualpolitik is pro Israel
This is a boring video, nothing new here.
several points worth making:
1 - before the war there was a protest in Israel, that included reservist (usually from high and jobs within the IDF - pilots, intelligence etc.) refusing to serve.
2 - from the beginning of the war, the IDF actually had to turn down reservists who showed up because it didn't have the resources to use all of them, as there was too many of them.
3- significant portion of the growth of the economy is related to the boom in the hi-tech industry - which in large part is based on abbilities and networking that started in the IDF
If i was a foreign business owner, I would stay FAR away from israel. Unfortunately, israel relies on FDI
@@MikeSpence-wk6ivIsrael has massive FDI. You may not like it, but it is a high tech based economy that relies on human capital and the Jews are just smart.
There is a reason why human capital businesses are investing in Israel.
@Stevef2022 why do you lot always use emotive language like 'you may not like it' what has my liking or not liking something got to do with real facts on the ground? No business wants to invest in a war zone. Israel isn't exactly creating a fertile business environment in its immediate vicinity. Read a little instead of acting like fan boy.
@@MikeSpence-wk6iv Note that Intel just committed $25B in a new chip plant in Israel - announced after the war began.
Apple is planning to expand its office in Herzliya.
You may not like it, but that’s how it is.
Diamonds are only created under pressure.
oil, its oil.
It was a long time coming. US is withdrawing from the region and israel is not adapting fast enough
Why is it so terrible to ask an advanced and wealthy nation to pay for its own military?
They will adapt they went through worse with less capabilities.
@@RobertPaulsen-gk8qc Corruption Maybe
That’s quite true, but the US aid is also explicitly limited to buying only US produced equipment, which was a policy specifically designed to create a dependence and the associated political influence. It’s as much gift as leash.
@@NerdlySquared it’s not about equipment.Israel will be technologically superior to it’s rivals for the foreseeable future. The problem is that Israel is not politically untouchable anymore. Not only it’s getting isolated but it’s also shown to the entire region that it can be hurt badly in major ways. As a footnote I should add israel has lost 20% of its gdp since October attack.
3:26 The great secret of the idf is the big papa america.
israel is basically stealing from the american taxpayer. their lobby has the american government in their pocket
the zio lobby is leeching off the american taxpayer's money
While the mighty Egypt and Syria had the Mother Russia called Soviet Union back in the day with their limitless supply of state of the art latest most advanced weapons for decades like 3 to 1 in size to Israel from all side but embarrassingly defeated twice in major head on war.
It all comes down to ingenuity, perseverance, professionalism, better training, flexibility, pragmatic, and guts of steel.
nice hasbara, that's the fictional story which you're regurgitating@@dwchen1
@@dwchen1- nope, the reason for the lack of Arab dominance in the region despite overwhelming numbers and force is their leadership who are Zionist proxies.
You should do a show on Israeli population change. The Israeli's have a large segment of their population, Religious, who never work and the government must support and pay for all their needs. They do nothing but breed. They won't fight and their growth rate is such that they may be the dominant Israeli pop soon.
An Israel that doesn't want to start fights? Praise be.
Visualpolitik is pro Israel
The IDF has performed quite badly on the ground in Lebanon and even worse in Gaza where they have taken quite a beating. The Gaza Strip is a small piece of land 41km in length and 6 - 12km in width. Military experts in the west thought the IDF would finish the ground invasion in couple of weeks, specially it was superseded by 3 weeks of extensive bombardment from the air by Israel powerful Air Force (provided by the US and paid for mostly by US tax payers). Now, 5 months into the invasion, the resistance is still fighting back and infecting casualties. This is quite impressive when one considers the intelligence capabilities and all the military hardware Israel has deployed. The courageous resistance in Gaza without an Air Force, radar equipment or an air defense systems has totally outperformed the morally corrupt IDF on the ground.
Prove what you say, because none of it is true
cope harder@@DavidKosMusic
The Gaza strip is the most fortified area in the region. The battles of Mosul took longer without all the underground networks and without captives being held on the ground. Your analysis is just too shallow.
@@inversebrah cope harder?
Well lets look at the facts
1. Over 13000 hamas terrorists are dead. Around 2000 or so are in jail. Few thousends are injured and incapable to fight. Thats over 50% of the fighting force. While the idf lost 249 soldiers since the ground envasion started.
2. The idf conquered the whole northen gaza strip, major parts in the central part and khan yunes is very close to fall (3 neiberhoods left), all of that in 5 months. Just for reference - the US coalition took mosul (a small city) in about 9 months.
3. Egypt plays ball with israel and saudi still wants normalization.
lmao those numbers come directly from the ministry hasbara@@DavidKosMusic
Apparently many Isreali officials and their families obtained other countries' citizenships in order to avoid compulsory military service. While in Thailand you have to change sex to avoid military service😂.
Where do you come up with this nonsense, you don’t avoid military service because you’re dual citizen
@@HowlingWo1f I mean, what are the army recruiters suppose to do if you're in another country and just stay?
@@robbieaulia6462 Who the f*** are you talking about? All of the Israeli prime ministers served in the army and most even were special forces, like the current one. What an idiotic thing to say...
@@AntonAdelson- you missed the point, Israelis are neither indigenous nor fully invested in the country. When they have a second passport that is sufficient temptation to quit the country when the going gets tough - like now when an estimated 1.5 million appear to have disappeared overseas.
The number of dual nationals answering call up notices or just coming on their own disputes that idea.
No one talk about Haiti
I know and I’m sorry , but I think of your people often.
Tell the Haitians to get their phones and record the events, upload them to social media, send them to Al Jazeera to tell their story like the Palestinians.
What happens in Haiti is horendous.. it has never recovered since the colonial days and it's getting worse today, and it's crazy that humans allow such things and are capable of such things
No Jews, no news
Kenya is already onto Haiti
May lose? Try, IS losing.
Also
"Lebensraum" is a German term that translates to "living space." It was used by the Nazis during World War II to justify their territorial expansion into Eastern Europe, claiming that the German people needed more space to grow and prosper. This concept was a key part of Hitler's ideology, which sought to establish a Greater German Empire at the expense of other nations.
While Israel's population is gonna face a hard time (that's why they are importing a huge numberforeign labourers) and the growing Orthodox population is refusing to work and give up its benefits, this just a glimpse of the future.
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Why are they refusing to work? You mean like jobs?
It'll end up like a Jewish version of Saudi Arabia - strict theocracy with strict laws regarding women and other religions in the country, while the bulk of the workforce is comprised of foreign labourers or expats for more highly paid specialised roles. While the native population lives on generous government handouts (although Israel lacks SAs rich hydrocarbon resources so this may be unfeasible)
@@shadowsift Religious reasons. Since they also have many children, they're expected to even reach 20% of the population. With the fast aging population and 20% of people who don't work or even go fulfil the military duty. This alone is a huge reason for Israel to start thinking about the longterm decisions. Arab populations on the contrary are only growing.
Who are they fighting against. unarmed children, and women, destruction of properties, etc....
I *think* they're fighting against people who committed some of the worst atrocities in history against 1200 of their people late last year. 🙄
Hamas Hogs & Pallywood Hoglets
Interesting episode. Could easily be in your economic channel.
Question.
With the advance of technology, why does the mikitary still depend on young people? Isn't it time to use people of 40 - 60 years old to combat duty instead?
Sure they are physically "decreased", but technology can make up to that. And given their life experience, they are less likely to engage in reckless actions.
Ants, bees, termites, they use this concept to make sure the youth with all their potential, won't be exposed to unnecessary danger.
I guess older people are weaker true, but they are ALSO the ones who have the money and the political capital to stop themselves from being killed. Young adults are more disposable and can have their career or education disrupted without hurting the economy as much as a person who due to their age, might have more property and a higher position in their job. Plus ideology, young people are more open to changes to their life and radicalizable
Basically their present worth to society is less valued than their future economic potential. Young people are worth less to society/government/economy than middle aged people. We are not as efficient as bee colonies.
Technology doesn't really make older people fit for intensive, even office intensive duty. We're just not there yet technologically.
You'll be surprised how primitive modern militaries are. We still rely all the time on muscle, muscle requires energy, and energy is something that young adults have plenty of.
"Israelis" speaking French 🙄
Sounds about right
Coming back to the land “God” gave them 3,000 years ago - I can’t think of something more ridiculous
And Arabic came from Arabia.
Good point! lol
@@AmrHussein1805😂
@@bristoled93 ohhhh, I see the British flag, and it just reminded me of the Balfour Declaration, 1917. Are you familiar with the Balfour declaration?
Religion has no land, religion does not come with a piece of real estate - you can be a perfectly good Jew and continue to live in your country be it the UK, France, Poland, Lithuania or Russia. Taking someone else land won’t make you a better Jew, it will make you a thief…
Your final conclusion that there is a decrease in motivation due to an increase in the quality of life is very wrong. In my humble opinion, there are two completely different main reasons for this.
1. Not all of the Jewish public mobilizes, the ultra-orthodox do not, which creates great resentment in the public that does mobilize.
2. We have a disgraced right-wing government that won in the end by 0.5%. The same government tried to turn us into Hungary or Poland with dictatorial laws that led more than 10% of the citizens to protest for almost a year. The reserve volunteers (who do not have to serve by law) announced that they would stop volunteering if the government did not shelve the coup.
These people were the first to jump to the front on 7.10.
The army is one of the only things on which there is a broad consensus in Israel and it is not going anywhere anytime soon.
Hey, what's up, bro? Are you going to Hawaii after the show? Or are you just getting back?😂
Visualpolitik is pro Israel
Israel already lost my friend.
How so? Morally? Yeah, they lost that one years ago. They're about 60% racist by opinion polls, also. Plus we see their society becoming more fascist by the weak
yes of course what ever helps you sleep you at bight
israel is the school bully who plays tough because of his older brother. @@celestialatheist
How did Israel lose your friend?
I noticed long ago that visualpolitik is pro Israel
the women proudly say they are prepared for war, but when captured they quickly become "innocent girls" lmfao
you talking about israel or american women lol
Drafting women has never historically work as they'll always get pregnant as a way of getting out.
Soldiers love innocent girls.
"lmfao" ah yes, a grown-up guy to have a discussion with.
All the women that were captured were non combatants though. They didn't sign up for this. The army failed to protect them on October 7th.
Isreali occupation forces is more accurate as they are used to maintain occupation of pleastinian lands
No buddy, Palestinians are occupying Israel. You got it all backwards.
@NewYorker8312, whatever you say Lord Balfour
@@MusehanaH at least you know I’m right
Older people who have satisfied their military requirement or are too old to serve are most in favor of drafting the young.
That’s normal for most issues. People ignore costs caused to other people and only see the benefits they will see. Even life or death issues. Unaffected people can be brutally callous in their willingness to throw strangers under the bus. Specially if we can tell ourselves “this strangers are doing something good, their sacrifice is absolutely necessary, we don’t have a choice”
So far they’ve shown to be a
paper tiger
This conflict has been important for shattering the image of Israeli invincibility (2006 did as well but now it's more widely-seen).
well well here comes the sofa analyst.
@@Phasael there’s enough us veterans like Greg Stoker that’s been posting about how their incompetent so I’m a sofa echo chamber enabler not analyst.
@@SaceedAbulcomes from the veterans who's only victories were dropping A bombs and joining the fight in the last second to steal the spotlight..
The US is pushing other countries to follow their steps, as if they ever worked..
@@SaceedAbul And what makes Greg stoker credible source? Being veteran?
6:45
That's a great question, but in fact Israeli regulars (the ones doing their mandatory service between the age of 18 and 21) only keep like 2-4 pairs of uniform in their closet, while I'm pretty sure reservists keep like 1 or 2 pairs or none at all
The hot debate not in Israel is about certain minorities, specifically Ultra Orthodox and arabs, that were excluded from comoulsory service due to political reasons. The irony is that these groups grow fastest demographically.
I doubt Arabs will be conscripted given how they're often treated as second class citizens in Israel.
Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good-except God alone.
Stan begone!
@@boulderbash19700209 Jesus is from a middle eastern race
I usually like your videos but this one missed the mark. You correctly noted Israelis motivation to fight for their state, religion, culture and way of life. However, what was incorrect, imo, was your explanation for the previous decline in the appeal of military service in Israel. Most of the problem lied not in the disparate living standards between middle to upper class civilian life vs. military duty. QOL and pay were definitely issues but the actual draft period is a rather short duration and thus mandatory service is not a huge economic sacrifice in peacetime. Instead the problem mainly lies in the unequal burden sharing among Israelis for military duty. For example the general lack of Haredi participation lowers enthusiasm among other Israelis to acquiesce to the draft. Also there is a bit of a divide between combat troops and support troops in high tech roles. The latter tends to benefit much more in the job market (after the war) from their IDF participation while the former bears more of the risk. Nonetheless, the overall motivation to defend the state is very strong. It's a difficult region and everyone understands that their fates are interconnected. Am Yisrael Chai.
I heard that the government really tries to pass the conscription law. One famous rabbi even said that he and the follower will leave the country. Do you think that could happen?
It's always going to be difficult to manage an apartheid state.
I noticed long ago that visualpolitik is pro Israel, which is sad because I've also been a subscriber for years
@@MarleyFuaad That's nice. Don't care. Go away. We Jews deserve to have a home and to live in peace. If you mess with that simple agenda then we respond.
I found this interesting. Thanks
Ight drink everytime you see the word hegemony on UA-cam
Lol people that are saying it already lost, why are you begging for a ceasefire? 🤣🤡
Just a note for future: 'Corps' is pronounced like 'core'.
Israel: Despite only having 9 million people, we can field 500K troops!
Finland: That's cute.
Those two interviewed are French people from Europe. What a scam...
That's because he was mentioning recruitment from around the world.
Those are jews from france who left everything and came to fight a war.
It's mentioned that they also call Israelis with dual citizenship.
11:15 This is only true for career soldiers. Reservists normally get more money if they do reserves than on their day job, except those getting paid exorbitant sums (maybe 2% of all workers). Just to give you an idea, the cutoff monthly salary is US $13,000, which is fairly high even by US standards, and extremely high by European and Israeli standards.
What you wrote is definitely not true. There are enough employees with high enough salaries that aren't matched by the Army, not to mention business owners who are vastly under-compensated.
@@eranir1Reservists get paid their salary plus a bonus if they serve long enough. It's mandatory. They can't be paid less, even if they guard gates in the reserve and are a software engineer in civilian life. The only way they can be paid less is if they cross the reserve salary cap.
The IDF is basically geared to refight the 1973 Yom Kippur war - an enemy army attacks, Israel mobilises the reserve to fight a short, decisive set-piece battle (preferably in the desert) against a conventional army. What Israel cannot really tolerate is a long war, where people are taken away from their jobs and businesses for a long period of time, or (having a relatively small population) high numbers of casualties.
You missed a main point : an occupying force whose mainly made up of immigrants and settlers is by rule less motivated to fight abd die for land as the Native peoples whose father father father lived on that land and who have no where else to go
You don't understand Israel very well. It's not like French Algeria or something like that at all. That's why the people have always had so much will to fight, particularly early on in its history.
Native people?
Jews have lived there for 3000 years. The arabs in israel are work migrants who came there in the ottoman and british rule in the 1900s
Vast majority of Israeli are of European and North American decent. Genetic analysis of Israeli population shows white European origins. Many are fist or send generation migrants from Europe or America. On the other hand Palestinian genetic analysis reveals origins in the Levant region, also Palestinians have lived in the region since before the creation of Israel (the actual state today), they hold unique cultural practices and self identify as native peoples- this alone separates them as native peoples to the land. Finally Arab is not necessarily an ethnic grouping, it is a language family- just because the Palestinians speak Arab that does not mean that they are of the same ethnic group of the Arabs from the Arab peninsula. In fact Palestinians harbor unique and rich culture distinct to the Levant. @@DavidKosMusic
The French did not have the will to fight? they murdered millions of Algerian to desperately hold on to their colonial territory. The fact is colonial settler society is unsustainable and is doomed to fail large enough population of native peoples remain @@trogdor8942
As people are dispersed in other places, there's of course a mix in the gene pool. Of course that people who came here from Poland and Germany has European genes mixed up with their Levant genes. You know what else they have? a more European look, compared to someone who never left the Levant. You know what Europeans told Jews during the 19th and 20th century? That they have a Jewish and less European (compared to them) look.
Regarding the Palestinians - there was some Arab population in the Area since the days of Mohamad, as there was some Jewish population (the "Old Yishuv") since before Jesus. But as the majority of Jews in Israel in 1948 were indeed immigrants of the prior 100 years, the majority of Arabs there were themselves immigrants from Egypt and Saudi Arabia (and many have family names indicating this) during the 19th and 20th century. They were called after the land (a name given by others, not them), not the land after them. To say that they "hold unique cultural practices and self identify as native peoples" is really laughable. Ask a Palestinian to name one important Palestinian figure, he wouldn't be able to go farther than Arafat. They were thousands of families and tribes, with more connections to outside groups and countries than to themselves, but no nation whatsoever. The only thing that made them a nation was losing their homes in 1948.
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Why are they still draining money from US taxes, as well as other countries who contribute to them if they have such high end professions and paying such high salaries? Why are US troops embedded with IDF if Israel has such a 'great' military?
This explains why AI is being rushed through even with all the warnings.
Israel has already lost its military advantage in the Middle East. As countries like Egypt, Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia are now able to buy from other sources than the US, and almost all of them have started to locally manufacture different parts of their military and are on the way to do more.
Israel currently ranks 4th in the Middle East and if we're going to talk nukes, Saudi Arabia has nukes as they financed the Pakistani nuclear program from A-Z and it has been discovered that they are manufacturing nuclear capable Chinese missiles. Egypt and Iran also have advanced systems of chemical and biological weapons which are very very very deadly as well. Not as destructive as nukes, but will get the job done too. Different times people.
Iran has enriched uranium it just needs to give the notice to weaponize it.
Jajajaja... have we lost it? really? Egypt is fighting to feed its people. They have enough problems with the Ethiopians yet alone with the ISIS in the Sinai desert. Last year they asked Israel to aid them in their fight against the ISIS terrorist . Turkey is a paper tiger who can't even deal with a bunch of amateur Kurdish freedom fighters. We saw what the Saudis did against the Houtis. They folded like a bad poker hand. You don't sound very bright.
@@cameljammer6699 poor you don't seem to understand the difference between fighting an army vs fighting a rogue group. Egypt has already cleansed Sinai and Israel has asked Egypt several times for help against Hamas but they refused. USA, the world's strongest, couldn't do a damn thing against Taliban, so its amazing how THAT is your way of measuring armies. You really do lack the intelligence to even analyze military situations.
Turkey and Egypt are currently ranked higher than Israel and even Israel in its current state has started taking in loans and more help from the US to be able to handle Hamas who's also dropping Israeli casualties by the day. You're letting the Israeli myth get to your head, wake up.
@@nourrashid8739 Egypt even allowed Israel to bomb the Sinaï Peninsula and just executed 3 Brotherhood officials. They aren't refusing to help against H*mas. He's right, no Arab nation can fight against Israel. And Saudi Arabia doesn't have a domestic military industry. Turkey did indeed just launch its Kaan fighter jet and their Bayraktars are gold, but they won't ruin their reputation and relations for the Palestinians...They were even buddying up with Israel. And their economy can't handle an all-our war.
Egypt is on the brink of a collapse, their valuta just dropped with 30% lmfao. I've been to Egypt, as a fellow Arab, it's a huge joke. Iran is indeed a threat, but it's acting out of self-interest and despite the threats...they have shown they're willing to drop Palestina any time as a bargaining chip. Saudi Arabia recently paid a soccer player more than it gave aid to Palestina. There are no Muslim/Arab nations that are helping, stop dreaming.
@@nourrashid8739 where are you getting your information from? The US completely dominated the Taliban in a matter of weeks. The Taliban were a non-factor in Afghanistan for almost two decades. They were nothing more than child’s play for the US military. Yes, the US failed in properly training the Afghan military in holding off the Taliban once the US left but that has nothing to do with the actual might of the US military… when did Israel ever ask Egypt to help it against H@mas? Actually Egypt is so scared of H@mas wrecking havoc in the Sinai that it brokered a deal with them taking H@mas off of Egypts terror group list and promising to look the other way as H@mas smuggles weapons through Rafah. In return H@mas didn’t play ball with ISIS in the Sinai. And Sinai is currently swarming with Muslim brotherhood. Egypt is so afraid of its own shadow that it refuses to even combat the H@uthis who are literally causing Egypt to lose billions of dollars in revenue from the lack of Suez Canal crossings… lastly, Israel could’ve literally finished H@mas in a matter of weeks if Israel didn’t discriminate between H@mas and their human shields. Y’all cry that Israel is killing too many civilians but then diss Israel for taking so long in dealing with Hamas because Israel tries to spare as many civilians as possible. Make it make sense.
PTS is going to be a major problem
You are overcomplicating it. In Israel, being an Israeli is all about patriotism, defense of the motherland and the people, and circling the wagons if you wish in times of war. No one thinks about work, money, career, missing employees, lost profits etc. It all goes out the window when your safety and the safety of your family and loved ones is in the balance... and everyone understands that instinctively. There is no better time to see Israelis put aside all our differences and unify with one common goal, survival and victory at all cost, as in times of war.
...including those being dragged down the streets by the security police kicking and screaming?
Who here has seen the movie wall-e? That's basically what's happening in 1st world countries?
You mean Blackmirror?
May Allah Almighty protects my phele5tinian brothers and sisters.
Maybe end apartheid
the obvious solution, but somehow people need to prove that they learned absolutely nothing from history
I'm surprised no trolls seen this comment
Do you have an example for apartheid in Israel?
@@buthow1437 all of gaza and the west bank
@@superwaffle9312 he 's an apartheid denier like a US politician
Rich families in Israel make sure their children get posted to the "safest" places
Exactly
Young people are awakened and see the hypocrisy. They do not want die for stupid politicians.
Music in 8:45?
I second that!
The quality of the Paramilitaries they are surrounded by have improved dramatically and will continue to, I don't think living in an armed camp is sustainable.
They are very brave when they have 5 year old kid or women or unarmed.. Most well fed terrorist organisation idf.. Imagine hamas singlehandedly stopping US UK FRANCE GERMANY ISRAEL all alone... Such is the bravery of idf.. Just begging for help...
I mean it makes sense. Why would any company risk going bankrupt, just because 70% of employees being called up to expire innocent civilians in Gaza.
70% of companies reported some affected due the current huge mobilization, not that 70% of workers were mobilized...
On normal times maybe 1%of the work force is spending 1-3 weeks in reserve duty... and this happens on all companies, so it has little competitive effect.
@@BubushiByNature it has little competitive effect domestically, international Israeli companies are hit the hardest by this. But little competitive effect does not mean little economic effect, just because the gaps between companies aren't changing doesn't mean both companies aren't poorer because of it. And the money is what matters for most companies, market share is only an extension of that.
Very True! Lord’s will looks that Way 🤲🤲
The israelis don't have a need for a large reserve force. The tacit reason why they do is part of the social regimentation of society as a whole. In prior wars, israel did indeed require reserves to make up the numbers (curiously it never had a manpower shortage on the frontlines) but in today's wars this is unlikely to occur.
Israeli citizens became lazy and forgot they live on a ticking time bomb. The intelligence failure is what fascinates me the most.
Would love it if you'd make a video about it 👍
If it interests you, you should look for sources in Hebrew and just let google to translate it for you. All the foreign resources on this were between lacking to flatly wrong. gotta say that this video as well contains many many wrong details.
Without shoes and no modern weapons , without tanks and no F16 , without help of the NATO, without mercenaries and under unprecedent siege for more than 75 years , Palestinians are making history
on the other hand the genocidaires of I0F have all of the above, and have achieved nothing of their objectives for 5 months in GAZA which is only 2 square meters, I have just understood the meaning of heroism and cowardice too
@FaycalOuazine more then 50% of hamas fighting force is gone, major hamas assets are gone, whole of northen gaza strip, major parts of central gaza strip and khan yunes are gone, western financial support (and most of the arab support) is gone, most of the financial support of UNRWA is gone, hizbballa and iran have abandoned hamas, egypt is cooperating with israel, saudi still wants normalisation with israel (and so does the rest of abraham accords).
what are you talking about?
lmao nice hasbara@@DavidKosMusic
@@DavidKosMusicis that what IDF told you? You are getting your info from wrong source
@@JayEy not idf. ISW, war mapper and other independent military map sites and reports.
its a bad idea believing terror organization instead of a modern military of a democratic state. it doesnt make sense.
besides, stop watching al jazeera, its not reliable, they are based in katar, a non democratic state (no rights to women, gays and the rest) who support terror (hosting and paying hamas leaders).
@@inversebrah report all hasbra trolls for misinformation and get them shadow banned. Then no one sees their comments and they keep posting as if its a normal day at has-bra troll farm.
correction: Israeli Gov called on 300k, 450k showed up. 360K is the number that include veterans/reservists that insisted to serve even if not called yet.
The Israelis reported rather low casualty numbers. If they have over 300K soldiers why would they insist that a couple of thousands of religious Jews be conscripted? Something doesn't add up.
@@mohamadromzee7394
The thing that don't add up is your understanding. nobody insists on "a couple of thousands of religious Jews be conscripted". We insist on equal conscription of all, where nobody is exempt.
@@mohamadromzee7394 Maybe it's unfair that some people can avoid conscription just because they are religious?
They kinda sound like the US reservists and national guard only the US is volunteer
Much of this can be attributed to the the changes the IDF made prior to 10/7. Israel falsely believed that the era of big maneuver warfare was a thing of the past. The IDF was transitioning to a smaller but more technology driven military that focused on air superiority.
Hence young people who just got out of active duty understood that large amounts of reserves were not required in the new vision of the IDF.
Now that this small but lethal concept has been proven false, the IDF and the Israeli reservists will apply the lessons learned from this war and have a greater appreciation for the necessity reserve duty
im from israel.
you hit the nail on the head with every word. a huge mistake by the heads of state and the idf. i dont know why they did this, im positive they had, what they thought, a good reason (military budget, economics, ect).
anyway, everything changed 5 months ago.
@DavidKosMusic even more reasons to throw bibi in jail. He's israels worst enemy.
@@DavidKosMusic Almost the entire world started tightening their border security and keeping eye on their far right groups as soon as Putin invaded Ukraine.
The Damage has Been Done. The Bubble Bursted.
You failed to highlight two very important factors among the data you provided: 1) Unlike any other modern military of any other developed nation (as you mentioned those) Israel is the ONLY ONE that has a healthy birthrate. In all of the other examples (South Korea and such) any conflict that they may face is a forever lost of whoever that dies in war (as that is what negative birthrate does to any country). Hence Israel has a strong position no other developed country can have. (yes, Israel close enemies has an even higher birthrate).
2) Almost HALF of Israel population (between 45 to 50%), proper Israel citizens DO NOT MAKE THE COMPULSORY military service: This number is reached when you add up the Haredi Jews (that, by the way, are increasing in proportionate numbers year after year), Israeli Arabs, Druzes, Bedouins and all the people who may be excepted whether for physical or psychological issues. This is a HUGE proportion. If Israel were to end such exceptions, the reservists' numbers could (theoretically) almost double. Yes, you could have to change the whole religious an ideological panorama (you don't want people in the military that will whether boicot you or be so against any war that would be dead weight) that those are things that Israel would have to consider if it wants to be the equal society that makes no differences among its citizenry.
Plus, integrating such population in the military could lessen the burden on some of the people, mentioned in the video, whose skills are required. The Haredi Jews (for instance) are not people who are well integrated on the market place (worse, they are subsidized) so it's not like them, doing service, would impact Israel's economy as it does taking away those specialized on technical industries. Etc.
Let's see what Israel's birth rate looks like when the regional war it started is over. We already know it is not reporting its casualties truthfully.
You havent spoken to any fighters obviasly . You fight for your 3 ,9 and 6
The channel dropped the ball on this video.
As someone who served in the reserves in this war for the past 4 months let me make a few things clear:
A) I am a CPA and in all my job interviews the fact I served in combat was always the thing all the company's found the most compelling in my CV. The skills you pick up from going though combat training makes you more valuable
2) all salaried employees make the exact salary they would make in their civilian jobs from the government. In addition they get a special grant based on the amount of days they served. All self employed get what the company made in the avrge of the past months plus 20 percent. Most people come out making more then they would have. that being said, business owner can still suffer if the company cant recover after the war from their leave.
3) the fact that in past people wanted to change manditory service was because they felt October 7 was not possible. That statistic is irrelevant now.
4) motivation for serving is sky high. We have student lawyers plumbers, customer support reps, park rangers , programers you name it all serving together. It's hardest on those with kids at home and students. but almost no one left, and we are all ready when we are called again.
Alien will come to earth and observe and realise that human are too violent to trust.
Not humans, to be more specific, zionists and Western leaders
Please stop it with the pointless loud music.
Israel is some weird European settler outpost destined to fail.
haha actually the uniform only takes up a bit of space, its all the rest of the gear you bring with it, and the boots, speaking from experience :)
Pork can make a weeknight dinner feel like a true event, but the other white meat has so much more to offer than just Bibi balls. These variations, like braised pork belly, pork soup , and boiled pork feet are sure to spice up your meals.
lol.... we dont have a huge wardrobe in the army as an American army...
so its just 2/3 sets of clothes and one set of shoes
Your comments about the Second Lebanon War are amateurish. Same with comments about reservists who have always been the voice of reason and experience in Israel.
As an Israeli, I'm sorry, but you are soooo off mark with this video.
There are challenges that everyone knows but reserves are not going anywhere, compulsory military conscription isn't going anywhere.
In Israel the classical strategic understanding is that we need to be prepared at anytime for a full scale multi front multi state war of elimination.
The west does not understand.
AM YISRAEL CHAI
Another Israeli here.
I don't know where he gets his information for this video.
If anything, we are more ready to fight than ever.
Israeli here also
This video is So far off it’s ridiculous
They really don’t understand how we are and the spirit in Israel
From all the comments here, I am impressed by the motivations and moral,
BUT.................
Reserve service is NOT a requirement; it is voluntary after initial service. Most do it to make extra money.
That is absolutely NOT true. The measure of requirement depends on where you served and how much you were needed. Sure, some refuse to serve in reserve, and the IDF won't pick a fight with everyone over that, but it's sure is not for extra money, as the majority lose and not earn money for that.
This video really gets a lot wrong. It mainly derives the wrong conclusions from some facts, but at the end actually completely gets the facts wrong:
"The huge wave of protests... the reservists began to be diverted, especially to routine security activities... in other words - fewer and fewer reservists are called to the front lines".
Actually, prior to the 2006 war, reservists were used more and more for "routine security activities" during their reserve duty, and got almost no training time. As a result, part of the complaining was that they were unprepared for battle duty when the war started. After the war this was pretty quickly changed completely, so reservists will be called (in no-war times) only for training and actual military activity (small operations, not security).
Not sure how you can release this video during a war in which reservists formed the majority of fighting forces on the ground...
Accidentally told "patrolling occupied area". The word occupied. This channel might now get censored.
Visualpolitik is pro Israel
There's a very important thing that was NOT mentioned in the video: Israeli soldiers are getting killed in greater numbers in the current conflict.
For the first time, these soldiers are face to face with real life-threatening situations that they don't know how to deal with, except to maim, torture, and bleed to death innocent civilians.
And when the "war" is over, they would have to deal with PTSD and nightmares over the atrocities they committed.
Yep. These kids have no idea what they've gotten themselves into. Happens when your leaders think of you as expendable.
The idf lost 249 brave soldiers, since the ground envasion started. This is very, very low. All the army experts thought it would be much higher.
Check your sources
@@DavidKosMusic Your sources seem to be the Israeli government.
@@danilolabbateisrael is a democratic state, there are laws (unlike, aham aham, hamas), IDF cant lie about losses. besides, israel is a small country, news travel fast, which means that the idf cant hide losses even if they want to.
Can't happen too soon.
I don't care about Israel's military hegemony but do hope Israel can continue to exist and that Jews and Palestinians can put aside their own differences and develop their country.
SKorea had THE biggest reserve. 50M people with about 80% of men (virtually no women) with military service records & in reserve afterward. 2.7 Million with 500k active ratio of 5+.
Also, unlike Russia where men are dead by 50's, even 50+ year old SK men are quite capable & willing to pickup a rife & man the howitzers. Most of them are marksman too. Just think of LA's Rooftop Koreans.
well they do need to protect all the land they have STOLEN
Yes and they not even ashamed about it
You can't steal what was always yours.
@@mattbenz99 search "1948 UN partition plan"
@mattbenz99 "Hi, I'm an Israeli! My entire family tree hails from Mexico, which none of us had ever left, and has always been Catholic, but as someone who converted to Judaism last week, Israel is my homeland!"
Most of the Jews actually legally bought this land or conquered it. Just like the Arabs did 1400 years ago. Idgf about the Arab marauders that called themselves Palestinians, just how much money the US has to spend there
One of the things that concern me about the IDF and Israel is what happens after demobilization. A lot of individuals will have gone through psychologically traumatizing events (even as the amount of physical trauma might be only very slight), and how will that translate back to post war PTSD and its impact on their ability to reintegrate into civilian life?
It will lead to an increase in criminal activity.
As it is, battlefield reports are suggesting that Many IDF soldiers are ignoring orders (stop posting your war crimes on tiktok) and openly disrespecting superiors (not hard to imagine as the average age of an NCO in the IDF is 24, and the average age of battlefront COs is 27).
So learning first hand War is chaos, inhuman, and authority has no jurisdiction over your actions... and in a society where everyone can get hold of military grade weapons... I imagine that ex soldiers will likely form organized criminal enterprises with their fingers in the international drug trade, wouldn't be beyond the scope of reality in the next decade or so.
Israel already lost 50% of its tanks in Gaza. The skill of their troops is generally lacking as was proven in Gaza. If its "enemies" use massive rocket and drone attacks, they can destroy its planes while they are on the ground, in the process removing one of its two advantages. The other one is a deterant which is nuclear weapons.
Were do people get this shit from? Are there special media channels for idiots who will eat whatever they are fed?
IDF soldiers are cowardly 😂
100%
Proven over and over
Israeli Diaper Forces!
these cowardly soldiers has beaten the entire middle east in 6 days . but what ever helps you sleep at night
these cowardly soldiers has beaten the entire middle east in 6 days . but what ever helps you sleep at night @@nolga3569
Viva La Resistance!
✊
They understand the role of the eternal victim. When a real bad man dropped by who was refused art school they got to experience what it means to play the role of the eternal victim. 6 million eternal victims. Have become 6 million fighters.
Not sustainable.
Thank you IDF for protecting the West from Hamas and Hezb
Thank you, good point, they are the first line of defense. The way Israel goes, the entire West will go.
@@NewYorker8312 Bingo!
@NewYorker8312, the entire west is being taken down...Btw, how is it that the Jews only safe refuge was the a Middle Eastern country after fleeing persecution in Europe? 🤔
As someone living in Israel and working in a successful international startup, I find it hard to reconcile the narrative presented in this video with the reality on the ground. Simply reading the New York Times doesn't afford a true understanding of the complexities here in Israel. 🙂
When the aggressors from Gaza initiated their assault, an overwhelming response from our reserve soldiers was immediate. Tens of thousands rushed to the battlefield even before being summoned, ready to risk their lives to protect our southern communities. Within just three days of the conflict's start, the mobilization of reserve soldiers surpassed 130%-signifying that 30% more individuals volunteered than were called upon, creating a logistical challenge to equip them promptly.
In our startup, several team members are currently fulfilling their reserve duties, now extending into the fifth month. The support for them and their families from everyone here is unequivocal. The morale within Israel and our backing for the IDF is at the highest I've witnessed in decades. Contrary to what the video's title might suggest, Israel is far from losing anything.
With divine support, we are committed to ending the Evil in Gaza. Our resolve remains unshaken as we continue our contributions towards enlightenment and progress worldwide.
Your people have deceited too much. We are tired listening from you.
This is not sustainable long term.
Am Yisrael Chai
the day that they have a real war against a military we will see the truth.
this is not a war.
they probably couldn't hold out a long term war against Egypt who will have many Kalashnikov carrying guerilla fighters fighting alongside thousands of willing martyrs from around the world.
They've done it several times before, but the last time was 50 years ago.
Urban warfare is considered to be a lot harder than open war, Israel could have finished Hamas in two days if it weren't hiding behind civilians...
We’ve already seen the truth bro
theyve had like 20 wars with their neighours, and defeated them every single time LOL
Visualpolitik is pro Israel
This video is not based on real time info. in Israel. Over 3,000 ultraorthodox joined the IDF, craft exemption will end for some ultraorthodox, women are now in many combat roles. Lots of people to serve in the IDF.
Its a colony trying to fight against nature. Israelis could at any moment have peace by having a 1 state solution, with Palestinians. But they chose violence, and are now paying the price
They lost it in 2006 the only advantage they have is nukes
Let me get this straight, our people going homeless, our kids drowning on student loan debt, we can’t afford to take care of our troops but we are paying for Israeli army, Israeli free healthcare and, subsidized college education?
Nope, you're paying to keep your military industry alive and to give jobs to many Americans.
All that money is in the form of coupons to American munitions.
Nato on the other hand is more of a money pit~
As well as refugees~ (bring in more freeloaders who will vote democrat, isn't that buying out your voters?)
AIPAC in action. It's not the votes that cont, it's the money.
Gotta love UA-cam's C word.
Short answer, it's good for your economy as it is also heavily relies on arms sales.
(All that money goes right back in the US)
You have other more pressing matters that suck up money.
Like rfgs~
Paying for "Israeli free healthcare and, subsidized college education"? where did you get this shit from?
@@eranir1 how can they afford to have subsidized higher education and free healthcare and we can’t? We are paying for their military so they can use their money to pay for their citizens needs. In the meantime we can’t afford to pay for our citizens needs. If they have the money for free healthcare then let them pay for their wars. I want my tax dollars to pay for our veterans!
Israel lost when they killed their own prime minister Rabin , at least he knew the solution was two states and not occupation.