Now, we've debated Israel to death, but I learned a legitimatly interesting thing that I wanted to bring up.
I know we're not supposed to suscribe to stereotypes when dealing with different ethnicities or religions but it some cases it holds true. As for Jewish people the sterotypes are bankers and doctors. Well, on bankers I can't speak intelligently on the overall incidence of being a banker and Jewish, but on doctors I have a little more insight.
For whatever reason Israel has an overabundance of doctors, by no small margin. This has lead to a very interesting development. When the IDF rolls into battle they don't just bring battlefield medics into battle, they bring full medical doctors as their medics. These guys are trained to remove a bullet, treat shock, and remove tonsils. It's pretty amazing actually. They also have a tendency to be the first on scene to treat Palestinian surivors after incurions (not after missile strikes, because typically the IDF has nobody on the ground for a missile strike).
I just found that little fact to be pretty amazing. I never really knew that. But it turns out that a lot of the time when we get reports of "x" wounded civillians were treated for minor injuries the people treating them are the same folks that inflicted them.
Oh, and one last bit of trivia. The Docs in the IDF don't wear any kind of markings to identify themselves as docs to other combatants. No red cross in other words.
I know we're not supposed to suscribe to stereotypes when dealing with different ethnicities or religions but it some cases it holds true. As for Jewish people the sterotypes are bankers and doctors. Well, on bankers I can't speak intelligently on the overall incidence of being a banker and Jewish, but on doctors I have a little more insight.
For whatever reason Israel has an overabundance of doctors, by no small margin. This has lead to a very interesting development. When the IDF rolls into battle they don't just bring battlefield medics into battle, they bring full medical doctors as their medics. These guys are trained to remove a bullet, treat shock, and remove tonsils. It's pretty amazing actually. They also have a tendency to be the first on scene to treat Palestinian surivors after incurions (not after missile strikes, because typically the IDF has nobody on the ground for a missile strike).
I just found that little fact to be pretty amazing. I never really knew that. But it turns out that a lot of the time when we get reports of "x" wounded civillians were treated for minor injuries the people treating them are the same folks that inflicted them.
Oh, and one last bit of trivia. The Docs in the IDF don't wear any kind of markings to identify themselves as docs to other combatants. No red cross in other words.
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