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IDF Public Relations Representative Major Nathan………..?

Very persuasive man who was most open to all questions. Every citizen is committed to a minimum of 3 years of military service or it’s equivalent (except for Arab Israelis). Men remain in the reserves till age 50.

The IDF standing army has 200,000 members and the Reserves haws 800,000.

There have been 14,500 recorded attacks in the last 2 i/2 years. We are a prime target of Iraq and of ‘human scuds’.

The Palestinians spin is better than ever before. Why can’t you see it? Like the Amalechites, they hit the weakest spot – children etc. We have to recognise that this is not a war against the Palestinian people. It is not a real estate war; it is not a border battle. It is a war against fundamentalist Islamists.

Preserving the ‘purity of the gun’, we don’t fire our weapons sporadically!!

Asked about Jenin Camp: “Everything is documented that 13 IDF died because a child was strapped to a bomb”. It was crying and isolated. The soldiers went to the child’s help and they were blown to pieces.

The Intifada is now no longer a popular uprising, but an unconventional war.

Jew hatred is rife in the Middle East.

He was respectful, persuasive and had an answer for every anomaly that was cited.