Veterans Today: IDF Veterans Received Extra Benefits at Expense of US Veterans!

US Taxpayers fund billions in defense for Israel, indirectly helping IDF soldiers, while US soldiers get jacked at home! Per the Jerusalem Post today, anyone who enlisted in the IDF or did civilian service will get preferred treatment in employment, higher education, buying land and other areas, according to a bill by coalition chairman Yariv Levin that was approved by the Ministerial Committee for Legislation Sunday. This important bill gives those who serve the appreciation they deserve, Levin said. I am determined to promote this legislation until it becomes law. Here in the US, our Veterans have to suffer from years of cut benefits, poor administration from the VA, and mediocre sub standard re-training and job support from the US Congress. All of this while our US Taxpayers continue to fund this far away country that provides NO benefits for us here in the USA, to the tune of billions of dollars in aid each year for more than 60 years! In short, we are indirectly funding IDF soldier benefits while we deny benefits to our own soldiers, says Tom Johnson from Hire Veterans .com, America's most important job board for US Military Veterans. Meanwhile, back in the "Holy Land", Israeli Arab advocacy groups accused the bill and the government of racism. According to Levin's bill, those who served the country can be preferred in hiring practices, receive higher salaries and get better services without it being considered discrimination. In addition, those who serve will be preferred in receiving dormitory rooms in universities and in purchasing land, and there will be affirmative action for them to work in civil service positions. The purpose of this bill, is to ensure that whoever contributes to the country, will get the rights he deserves, Levin wrote in the bill's explanatory portion. The coalition chairman explained that there is growing inequality in the burden of national service, and that there is growing inequality in the burden of national service, and that there are groups of people who intentionally avoid serving and show disloyalty to the country and a lack of commitment to defend its existence. At the same time, Levin wrote, the State of Israel sanctified the principle of absolute equal rights, preventing any preference of those who served the country and sacrificed for it. In addition, there are laws that favor population groups that do not serve. We have reached an absurd situation in which young people who do not serve in the army enter institutes of higher education at age 18, enjoy preference in dorms, and finish their degrees at age 21, and are even preferred in getting jobs. At the same time, those who served in the IDF or national service reach university at later ages and without funds, have to rent apartments because there is no room in the dormitories, and then find themselves discriminated against in finding civil service jobs, Levin wrote.