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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Reflections-on-my-IDF-service-327488
The IDF Shines
(Jerusalem Post) Eytan Buchman - Every soldier in the IDF fights their own individual battle. It may be a battle of restraint, facing a killer combination of cinderblocks and camera lenses. It can be a battle of vigilance, as a tired 21-year-old stares at a screen in an intelligence facility along the Syrian border. It can be a battle of solitude, as a driver transports a tank to a godforsaken base. But what keeps them going, what kept me going, is the burning faith that my military is one that shines. My military is one that does not need international law because the moral standards we hold ourselves to extend farther than that law ever could. It is a military extending medical aid to a sworn enemy. It is a military that will hold its fire, putting itself in mortal peril, because the person crouching by a rocket launcher may be a farmer rather than a terrorist. The author recently concluded his military service as the IDF spokesperson to North American media.