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The mainstream media and US public officials embrace US-born Jews who enlist in IOF as "heroes" and "lone soldiers" whereas their Muslim counterparts who plan on and/or joined Hezbullah or Hamas to defend their native countries against the Israeli invading army as "terrorists" or charged with "providing material support to designated terrorist organization." A charge that carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years.
A lone soldier is someone who does not have support in Israel either because they do not have immediate family in Israel or they estranged from their families because they enlisted in the IDF against their wishes. I should add that Americans who went to Ukraine to fight the Russian invading army are treated the same by the mainstream media (MSM) who usually are portrayed as heroes. Make this make sense!
The four people mentioned below were all US-born Jewish Americans who chose 2 enlist in the IOF instead of the US armed forces.
1- Mike Levin was killed in Lebanon during the 2006 Israeli war in Lebanon.
2- Max Steinberg was killed in 2014 in during the Israeli war in Gaza.
3- Elan Ganles was killed in Feb. 2023 near the city of Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
4- Edan Alexander, who is a former Israeli American POW, was captured on Oct. 7, 2023. He was armed and in uniform.
There are at least 50,000 Jewish-Americans like them serving in the IDF. The exact number is highly guarded to avoid giving the impression of disloyalty. Many joined after the 9/11 attacks. Serving in the armed forces of another country is grounds for revocation of U.S. citizenship. It says so on your passport.
Lone Soldier is a sugarcoated term for mercenaries. I should add here that the families of those killed soldiers have managed to sue the Palestinian Authorities and Iran and were able to collect hefty compensation for the loss of their loved ones from the frozen Iranian assets in US banks.
Spread their shame!
Mahmoud El-Yousseph is a Palestinian freelancer for Islamicity.com and ColumbusFreepress.com. He can be reached at elyousseph6@yahoo.com