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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Editorials/Israels-GI-bill-317394
Israel's GI Bill
(Jerusalem Post) Editorial - Israel's Ministerial Committee on Legislation is weighing approval of a law providing IDF veterans and anyone who has performed civilian service with a variety of long-overdue but hardly dramatic perks including preferred status in public sector job placement and accommodation in university dorms. The GI Bill in America, far from being challenged as discriminatory, is lauded and upheld as an example of society's gratitude to those who protect it. But what is self-evident in the U.S. is decried as racist in Israel, where appreciably lesser perks to Israeli veterans are denounced as a sinister plot against Arab citizens. This, despite the fact that Arabs can easily avail themselves of these perks without doing military service - something that is quite impossible in the American setting.