Comments on: Ya’alon Blames Lapid for Harming the Effort to Bring Chareidim into the IDF

By: geula

geula — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:27:50 +0000

#1
youre partly right. for lapid it wasnt about having them in the army but rather to leave their torah learning…..
but yaalon is extremely right. it happened partly because it became a terrible stigma since then to join the army and number two; pple don’t want to be dictated by others and loose their bechira. Once it became a forceful thing it repelled pple.

By: mbachur

mbachur — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:22:21 +0000

wasnt there a breport outt recently that more chareidim are joining nachal chareidi than ever before?

By: akuperma

akuperma — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 22:03:39 +0000

Lapid’s goal was not to get hareidim into the army. It was to destroy the hareidim community and to force hareidim in Eretz Yisrael to either become non-hareidim or to leave. For Lapid and his supporters, the hareidim are the leading threat to the existence of the medinah, or at least the sort of medinah that the secular zionists have always aspired to.

Lapid has probably failed. For Likud to form a government without including leftists it will need the hareidim, and will have to offer to cancel the conscription law and end the war on the hareidim. If Likud doesn’t or can’t make those concessions, then Labor will form a government with both hareidi and Arab support, and will also cancel conscription. Kulanu already came out against criminal sanctions for draft refusal, and Bayit Yehudi is unlikely to give up the settlements (to attract “left” support for a “right coalition) in order war against the hareidim. And almost all Arabs and most of the leftists are against criminal sanctions for refusing to do military service.