Loyal Jew, you wrote:
“Yirmiyahu warned us again and again but left the door open for tshuva at any time. Once he said that if only we’d stop carrying on Shabbos in Yerushayim it would be good enough.”
Assuming you are talking about the Novi, could you quote the posuk for me where he says explicitly that it would be “good enough”? Good enough for what? Learn some Yirmiyohu, specifically the 30th and 31st prokim, and see how HKBH is bringing the geuloh he talked about in Yirmiyohu right now!
“the enemies are closing in,”
Ignoring of course the nisim and niflo’os and strengththat HKBH has wrought using his instrument, the IDF and am yisroel. Ironic, because your fellow travelers also falsely accuse the frie Israelis of ignoring the same niflo’os and strength you are ignoring.
“the economy is failing,”
Perhaps, for those who do not work. If you haven’t been paying attention, Israel rode out the recent recession better than any industrialized country with the possible exception of Canada. It has the largest number of companies listed on NASDAQ outside of the US. It has a tremendous role in the world economy, and people from Warren Buffet ($4 Billion for ISCAR)to Bill Gates are investing in Israel. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE FOOLING? B’chasdei Hashem, he has caused a dynamic, flourishing economy to be created in Israel. Sorry if the reality doesn’t conform to your worldview.
“and they’re going to draft our last line of defense, the bochurim?!”
They are going to ask that bochurim to take their responsibilities as citizens seriously. There are already creative ways to do that, like the hesder model and sherut leumi that can both leave ample time to learn and be in environments that are positive. It doesn’t have to be an milchomo, except that those who are adamantly against it realize that their power is slipping, they don’t have the leverage in politics they used to have and they don’t have the budgets squeezed from the PM they used to have.