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Given Israel's hardline militarism requiring mandatory service, officials are seeking new ways to deter avoidance.
Indoctrinating Youths to Accept Militarism in Israeli Society and Culture
New Profile is a "Movement for the Civil-ization of Israeli Society" away from militarism and a culture of violence, its "feminist women and men....convinced that we need not live in a soldiers' state" and should no longer tolerate one.
In July 2004, its report titled, "Child Recruitment in Israel" examined how Israeli armed forces and Jewish militias indoctrinate young children to be warriors, a practice they believe essential to stop.
Child recruitment involves more than having weapons and using them, their being no front lines in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In Israel and the Territories, IDF soldiers are everywhere. "Many military bases are located inside population centres and few Israelis ever spend a day without meeting soldiers on duty."
As a result, a functional definition of child recruitment is as follows:
-- a child is anyone under 18, recruited by one or more of these methods:
(1) by wearing an official uniform, having an official document, or in other ways identified as an IDF or related group member, even if not formal;
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