Charlie:
I don’t concede your halachic opinions, but even if they are true, I agree with you that the more important point is as you make in your post, and I’ll embellish:
Don’t you think a govt that cared about its citizens and cared to allow them their religious observance, would make such reasonable accommodation within the context of a forced 3 year army service?
To the contrary, they try to make it hard to keep halacha there. When the kol isha issue came up–they made it a womens rights issue to force them to listen.
I think I reasonably do not believe that they are ready to accommodate us in the army in good faith.