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Originally Posted by entropy
How is the situation with the Israeli elite units nowadays? I remember that they were writing their government a letter complaining about Evil Zionism, something that I find unacceptable of an elite regiment. I guess the morale has gone up since then.
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I've never heard of this. If you got something I could read about the following, I'd be very interested. Soldiers in Israel just like in the United States are supposed officially be apolitical beings.
I don't think you can generalize the situation with Israeli elite units anyway. There are just so many of them, and each of them draft people and trains them like two-three times per year. There are so many operators and ex-operators walking around Israel that it's insane. Just figure that, they've got lots and lots of redundant units with similar capabilities and training. Now figure that every one of these units drafts a company or platoon worth of people a few times annually. Then a lot of these guys are cut, but even those who make it, there is sooo many people. On top of that, there are even more ginormous numbers of people who at one point were in maslul (special operations probationary period, where those who qualify after the 3-day tryout are trained and quite a few fail or drop out). Walk into any store in Israel, and there is probably a former special operations guy there. What's the point of me saying all this? It's really hard to generalize what's going with such a large and diverse community.