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I know many residents of Israel who have skirted the IDF requirements by living abroad or substitution the social service.

Stop substituting "Jew" too- that's really starting to get on my nerves. My problem is only with allowing former soldiers of foreign nations, even friendly allies like Israel (and likewise of the UK, as far as investigations into the Boston support of the IRA go) be allowed access to positions that present a clear conflict of loyalties.

And yes, there were former Israeli soldiers in that group:

...even though some had helped translate Arabic for Israeli radio and TV news stations and the Israeli army before coming to America, the charity's director says.

Once again, I can think of many situations where having a person with potential loyalty to a foreign nation with a potential interest in the subject matter is not ideal.

Of course, you probably have already decided that I'm on the Pat Buchanan-like fringe and that I hate Jews, so I doubt any of this will get through. I don't hate Jews- hell, I'm even dating one. Nor do I have any problems with Israel (no THE LIBERTY WAS ON PURPOSE! from me, sorry to disappoint you)- if anything, I think that Israel isn't being assertive enough in the Middle East.

That, however, doesn't mean that I'm willing to ignore potential security problems, such as hiring ex-IDF for positions with the potential for access to information that they might feel inclined to pass on to Jerusalem.

But it's just a "those evil JOOS! thing on my part, right?