“As charedim become a larger and larger share of the Israeli population, charedim do need to take responsibility for the defense of the country. Otherwise the Arab rashaim will overrun everything and anyone who thinks that torah study will prevent that should look at the example of Eastern Europe in the 1940s”
You might want to try checking what haskalah and reform were doing at that time before insinuating that Torah alone cannot protect us. I’m not saying that the army should not exist, but anyone who can learn should.