Kanoi: Our objections to serving extend even for those not learning.
ifti99: Any Arab violence after the advent of zionism (which predates ’48) can be attributed to it. Anything pre-zionism can be attributed to golus. And we had a worse golus under the non-Arabs, pre-zionism, than we had under the Arabs.
If you want to eliminate chareidi financial benefits, first you’ll need to eliminate taxation of chareidim. And Jews tried dodging the draft in Russia and most other countries we lived in. Jews were never big volunteers in serving the military.