bentch: “ifti99: chareidim lived in Eretz Yisroel before the zionists came or were even considering Uganda for their homeland. If anyone should leave, it is they. (And look around NY. A lot of chilonim have long emigrated.) This is besides the fact that no other country will accept a million Israeli citizens to move there.”
Your point is irrelevant. Many people lived in Israel before the chareidim. So what? Taking your analogy further, it would seem that the Native Americans should have absolutely no obligation to observe American law. They should just be able to attack and scalp their enemies, right? After all, they were here first.
The point is, it doesn’t matter who was there first. Governments and countries change hands throughout history. You can’t get out of the laws by claiming you were there first. Try making that argument in Austria in 1938 after the Ancsluss.