g_a_w:
That’s an appeal to ridicule right there. These are all small issues; a beketshe or a frok, a a shtreimel or a fedora. You don’t change the type of Jew you call yourself for those things.
Anyway my opinion on Zionism is irrelevant since it doesn’t exist anymore.
In fact I’m pretty sure this topic is a deflection from the original which was whether it is correct to send a child who is sitting and learning to the IDF.
1: I’m glad you consider Heter Mechira a “small issue”. I don’t think a typical “Brisker” would.
2: We both agree that someone learning should not be in the IDF. I just think the country needs an “army” (i.e. people with weapons to defend) of some sort, which you agreed to earlier.
B”H, Shalom.
P.S. There are gemaros in the first perek of Bava Basra that actually state (and they are brought down L’halacha in hilchos Tzedaka) that a Talmud Chacham does not need to pay taxes for the city militia, as “Rabbanan Lo Tzrichi N’Tirusa”. This would apply whether the Rabbanan were working or not.
Even if I were a talmud chacham, I would not want to put that to the test.