Oh, I had no doubt that there are Americans in uniform, out of uniform, in Palestinian civvies, in Palestinian uniform, etc, all over Israel.

But what was weird to me was for Miller to casually say "Americans" were IDF. He can't possibly mean "ethnic Americans", there being no such thing. He could only possibly mean American citizens.

That being the case, how is that consonant with them being IDF? The oath of citizenship states:

I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen....

So what's the out? They're natural-born citizens and never took the oath, and that somehow naturalized citizens are under obligations the natural-born are not?? Or is it that they weren't IDF at the time they took the oath, they just swore allegiance later?

I can;t imagine that if an American was a member of the IRGC or SVR or PRC or DPRK or any other combo of letters that that would be okay with any US combo of letters. Seems like they'd flip the fuck out.

I think maybe everyone is just so discombobulated as to what the rules are, if any, that they just don;t notice these things any more.