@GAW – I don’t understand you. I reread the quote you posted 3x and couldn’t find anything wrong with it. What does it say… “We believe that this new bill will be detrimental to the spiritual health of Klal Yisrael and are therefore protesting.” What is so bad about that?
You disagree? You’re entitled, but don’t start demanding that everybody share your opinion like the hypocritical Liberals in America.
No one at either Atzeres stated that soldiers are evil! They stated that the Government is Evil! We stand by that! We always have! And we were here first! The GRA and the BESHT sent Talmidim to Israel way before the Zionists were here! (Not to mention that the early Zionist did whatever they could to starve the religious community to death, literally! This is documented!)
Also, no one is stating that soldiers are not necessary. However, what is very necessary is not being appreciated by most because the reality is that deep in their hearts they don’t believe that Torah protects us. They look towards the Goyim and say, “they seem to manage fine without the study of Torah”. However, Jews are different! It is a Halacha! HaKol Kol Yaakov! It is our Kol Torah that protects us! The rest is hishtadlus that is necessary only because of the Chet HaRishon.
As far as the wicked Yori Yanover’s article, his article was written with immense hatred. That is why they fired him.(OK, admittedly they also fired him to save their own skins.)
So on the one hand we have a protest to protect the Torah and on the other hand we have a man that hates. So what exactly is your problem?