Welfare Minister Ya’akov Margi slammed the politicization of the recruitment of Chareidim in a fiery speech at the Sderot Conference for Society and Education in Be’er Sheva on Tuesday.
“I served in the army, my two children served in the army, and my eldest son has been in continuous reserve duty since October 7th,” Margi said, adding that lawmakers are cynically using the issue of Chareidi enlistment for political purposes. “It’s possible to resolve this crisis if you remove the political slant from the equation. Don’t buy tall tales, don’t buy headlines and slogans.”
“Those who oppose the law don’t really want to enlist Chareidim. They want the crisis, the argument, they want to tear Israeli society apart – as if we aren’t divided enough.”
“If they really want to solve it, it’s possible. After all, today there is no law, are Chareidim being enlisted? Almost not! If there is a law, Chareidim will enlist.”
Margi added that the IDF itself has no interest in integrating the Chareidim and sabotaged programs created for that purpose in the past. “My son enlisted in a Chareidi track. I accompanied all the tracks that were established in the previous decade, and there were many of them. Who got rid of them? The IDF. They didn’t want it, it was a headache for them.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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The wicked Zionists want all Jews to be Zionists rather than Jews. But the chareidim refuse to convert to Zionism, including especially by force via the indoctrination/shmad in the Zionist army. Not going to happen, one way or another. Netzach Yisrael lo yishaker.
remove the draft law for everyone problem solved. conscripts don’t win waars
It’s crazy how bad Israel’s deep state is and how much control they have
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Well said Hakatan.
HaKatan – The wicked Progressives/Post-Zionists who populate the Israeli judiciary and media couldn’t care less about Zionism, or even about the Army for that matter… It is all about power for the Left, which they used to have by majority rule decades ago when they still were Socialist Zionists (by controlling the labor unions and education to intimidate and indoctrinate people into voting for them), but now they don’t (because they are ideologically bankrupt in the eyes of most normal Israelis after the failure of socialism and the ‘peace process’). In their view, the main obstacle to their power is the Netanyahu/Chareidi alliance, (which parallels the uneasy but real Mesorti/Dati/Chareidi alliance), and they are doing everything they can to break that, with no regard for consequences.
Nobody is budging on the Chareidi side anytime soon, and the Army is well aware of that, and OK with that, because they are afraid of us more than we are of them… The last thing they want is ALL OF THE CHAREIDIM joining, and flooding the Army with heimishe bochurim who aren’t with their program… That is the unspoken Chareidi Nuclear Option the army dreads, and will do everything to avoid.
Yaakov Yosef A:
Hallalu ovdei A”Z vaHallalu ovdei A”Z. Leftist, “right”, progressive, not as progressive; whatever. It doesn’t matter all that much, because Zionism of any flavor is shmad. The purpose of Zionism was and is to change Judaism into Zionism and Jews into Zionists.
I also wouldn’t underestimate reshaim; I doubt that they fear that “nuclear” option. Just the opposite. The purpose of that army is to brainwash Zionist idolatry and heresy into its recruits, which is exactly what the Zionists will do to any number of Jews caught in its evil clutches even if it means some (but not the required) gender separation and some (minimal) prayer time and the like. Once they are able to poison them with Zionist heresy and idolatry, the rest is just details.
The headline could’ve been written a little bit more carefully.
Instead of: “Minister Margi: “It’s Possible To Solve The Chareidi Draft Issue But They Don’t Want To”, how about: “Minister Margi: “It’s Possible To Solve The Chareidi Draft Issue But They (The Antireligous) Don’t Want To” out: “Minister Margi: “It’s Possible To Solve The Chareidi Draft Issue But The Politicians Don’t Want To”?