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In addition I blame the corrupt framework of the medine for charedi poverty – they could have allowed alternative national service from day one so that charedim could properly enter the workforce – but then the charedi community would resemble the ones in the US, UK, Belgium (of old) etc and probably control too much of the economy of the country given its small size.
And with this control would come real political power for the Torah world instead of the sad system that exists today. It would have meant the end of the present frum parties who really do not do much but perpetrate the system, whether out of a desire to hold on to their own power or out of a sincere desire to make sure “vehaya machaneicha kodosh”
And again – the hakoros hatov for the support of Torah goes to those who bankrolled the medine for so many years – the US taxpayers. This, too, did not have to happen if the medine were not the last Bolshevik outpost in the post-Soviet world.
The medine = Enron. My admiration for those who set up the medine is the same as my admiration for the founders of Enron who had no product whatsoever and fleeced everyone who came into contact with them.