I HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND IT IS ME

The Jerusalem Post reports on a Palestinian youth who converted to Judaism and enlisted in the IDF:

A Palestinian youth who converted to Judaism reportedly enlisted in the Israeli military.

Amnon Yitzhak-Shachar, who was born Ayman Abu-Zubuch in the Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis, reported to Israel's main draft office last week and was mobilized, Ma'ariv said Sunday. According to the newspaper, Yitzhak-Shachar would not mind serving in a combat unit and fight his former compatriots in Gaza.

The Palestinian Israeli became interested in Judaism as a teenager, when he accompanied his father to work in Kfar Saba. He said his parents banished him from Khan Younis after his conversion, and that he chose his new first name, Amnon, after the surname of the Israeli family that adopted him.

Let's hope he does a better job in the IDF than the Israeli Arab who was just convicted of murdering a British terror-enabler:

A court convicted a former Israeli soldier of manslaughter Monday in the shooting death of a pro-Palestinian British activist, the first time a soldier has been found guilty of killing a foreign citizen during more than four years of Palestinian-Israeli violence.

Wahid Taysir, a member of the Bedouin Arab minority, was accused of shooting Tom Hurndall in the head during an army operation in the Gaza Strip in April 2003. Witnesses said Hurndall, 22, a member of the International Solidarity Movement, was helping Palestinian children avoid Israeli tanks.

Just to make the trade even, a former Jewish settler has converted to Islam. Here's his story:

HEBRON, West Bank (AFP) - With his tattoo of the Star of David hidden from view, Mohammed al-Mahadi prays to Allah in his new West Bank home near the radical Jewish settlement where he spent much of the last decade. His recent arrival in the Shaab neighbourhood of the flashpoint town of Hebron is the latest twist in the extraordinary life story of Mahadi, who was born to Jewish parents 37 years ago in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan.

The man then known as Mikhail Shirovsky moved to Israel soon after the Soviet
authorities allowed Jews to emigrate in the 1980s. After serving in the army as a fitness instructor, he was drawn to Jewish extremism and decided to move to the hardline settlement of Kiryat Arba in 1995 soon after one of its residents, Baruch Goldstein, shot dead 29 Muslim worshippers in Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs.

But an unlikely friendship with a Palestinian garage owner led him to first question his values, then to convert to Islam before marrying a Muslim wife from his native land. ... After his conversion to Islam and marriage to Sabena, Mahadi's life among the Jews of Kiryat Arba became increasingly fraught. He says that his wife and four children, were ostracised and harassed by his one-time friends. [A]ll that I care about is that my children continue on the same religious path as me."

Mahadi said that he had been persuaded to renounce Judaism for intellectual reasons."I discovered that there were too many contradictions in Judaism and at the same time I realised that Islam is the religion of truth and wisdom," he said. "I converted because I am seeking truth because of religious reasons and not for any other motive." .... Mahadi harbours no doubts and his new faith, saying that he is
not interested in the formation of a secular Palestinian state. "What I want is an Islamic caliphate in Palestine and God willing, Jerusalem will be the capital of this state," he said.