The army resides in the DNA of Israeli society. It is in the education system and the media, in cinema, television and the myriad images that surround society. My oldest sister left the country with her family just before her eldest son turned 16 so that he wouldn't be drafted into the IDF. — Israeli filmmaker Netalie Braun
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51