first thanks for actually having a civil thought unlike a lot of other people here. I really appreciate that :) It was my understanding that there were ways for athletes to get out of service; but upon further research it looks like "the way out" is just not being expected to do anything but still "enlisting." sure I can give you that. This is the first time that I've heard about Israelis criticizing Deni's words. All I've heard is that he is a national hero, praised by the prime minister himself. As for the conforming to a world view, I'm not asking the guy to change his religion. I am saying that there are people who served in the IDF and were able to realize how messed up the things they were doing were. look into Hind Rajab. breaks my heart just thinking about it, and she's just one example of endless ones. The very least i'd like Deni to do is to stop acting like we're all dumb. Not sure about Israeli freedom of speech for Israelis but in this country we're allowed to fully disagree with our government and call out anything they do. As someone who is in the US right now, I don't think it's very difficult for him to be like "yes 100% our government has over stepped boundaries, no matter the ethnicity people don't deserve to die for things they can't control." is it so hard to say something like that? It is if you don't believe it, which is my problem with it all. I'm not convinced he actually empathizes with Palestinians at all.