[IMRA: It would appear that the IDF Manpower Division has embraced the
notion that its primary objective in the coming years will be to fight Jews.
The new policy adds another thing for the parents of children slated to
enter the army in the coming year to worry about: an increased possibility
that their children may find themselves in a unit with violent kids armed
with weapons provided by the IDF.]

IDF to recruit violent kids - exclude right-wing protesters

TEL AVIV [MENL] -- The Israeli military plans to significantly revise
recruitment policy that would accept youngsters deemed as violent while
exclude right-wing protesters.

Military sources said the army's Manpower Division has drafted new standards
for recruitment, particularly in combat units, in wake of the Israeli
military withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank in September
2005. They said the withdrawal has spawned a resistance movement against
similar military operations in the West Bank that has been joined by
hundreds of Jewish youngsters.

"We are expecting to turn away many people who are deemed unreliable and
accept others who need a second chance," a military source said. "It a very
controversial decision that even proponents say could backfire."

The sources said the new standards were meant to avoid the prospect that
Israeli soldiers would refuse orders to destroy Jewish communities in the
West Bank. They said the military would play the key role in the policy of
Israel's new government to withdraw from at least 90 percent of the West
Bank over the next three years.
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