- it is in existence for many decades, multiple generations
- culture as a whole is integrated with the military via conscription, then many related employment opportunities later in life
- military not some sort of symbolic peacetime standby thing, but a way where majority of citizens are indoctrinated and jumped in as children or very young adults.
- israel has enjoyed almost a century of careful special treatment despite their crimes and atrocities being widely known since day dot
- immense internal/external propaganda force
- fake it til you make it – the fascist method of reality. rather than discovering truth, as with science, you create it. israel being a prime example.
I think mandatory military service is important because by the time you are 25 years old you have already either directly participated in, or knowingly collaborated in, some awful heinous crimes. furthermore, you know everyone you ever loved is also guilty. like all those snipers who spend their days kneecapping kids, those people are all integrated in society, they are loved by families who know what they do.
in USA those experiences are not as equally distributed.
I contend that israel is more homogeneously fascist, like psychologically fascist, beating the present-day US for this reason. possibly past US could make an argument although I wonder if that kind of fascist mind-state is really possible prior to mass media?
you know, i never thought about it like that. that is fucking insane.