Zdad and others who maintain the stance that “you live in a country, you have to abide by its laws”:
You are forgetting one crucial thing:
The original law of the State of Israel, the one signed by its founding father David Ben Gurion, states among other things that those who are in full-time learning are entitled to a deferment (if not an exemption, I don’t remember which) from army service. This “Status Quo Agreement” was signed on and agreed to by Ben Gurion and Agudas Yisroel, and it was against the backdrop of this document that the Declaration of Independence was drafted and signed 11 months later.
In the current brouhaha over “sharing the burden”, it is the secular – not the chareidim – who have shown disregard for the laws of the State of Israel by declaring “unconstitutional” the only document Israel ever had that remotely resembled a constitution.
If there is anyone showing unwillingness to abide by the laws of the country they live in, it is those who are demanding that yeshiva students be drafted, not those who are demanding that they be granted deferments.