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Health and Kanoi,
You are still missing the point. The issue is not that Chareidim aren’t doing anything to protect the country. The Torah and Mitsvos they do is certainly a tremendous zchus that allows Israel to maintain its existence.
However, the Chareidim (other than those in Nachal Hacharedi) are not risking their lives. They have only the upside without the downside. People avoid army service, not because they don’t value protecting Jews, but because they are afraid of death and serious injury.
It is not the learning of Torah Jews that generates animosity, it is the fact that they do not put themselves in a position where they might have to make the ultimate sacrifice.
And Health, before you make an ad hominem attack, I went to Chareidi Yeshivos in America and Eretz Yisroel, I lived in a Chareidi neighborhood and I learned in kollel. I am not Modern Orthodox and never have been.