Reply To: Is Israel bent on losing their protection?

rabbiofberlin -“to health first;I have consistently advocated that the government in Israel just adjust its benefits so that -for the great majority-there is no financial incentive to remain in kollel. Forget about the draft for now- after all, this is what the rabbonim who are hyperventilating are concerned with-and allow them to join the workforce. I think that a great majority of people who are now prisoners of their fate would leave the kollelim and go out to work-which would benefit everyone.”

You just want to skip the main part of the equation here -how convenient. The problem that the Charedim have with this Gov. is they don’t want to go to the army. They believe it’s Ossur. The Gov. is attaching working legally to the draft up to a certain age. They are cutting a lot of social programs for those who refuse to go to the army.

Yes, you just want to focus on the little good that this Gov. will do to help some Charedim into the workplace. But their bad outweighs any good. They are also going to financially make a lot of Charedim’s lives more difficult. Objectively, this simply is discrimination. They are pressuring Charedim to join the IDF and some aren’t strong enough to withstand all the pressures.

How come so soon after the last war – Gaza is firing rockets into Israel?

You can put your head in the sand and pretend this Gov. is great, but I predict they will soon fall. I just hope it’s before there are too many casualties!