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Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox Jews Are at a Crossroads as Military-Draft Orders ArriveTHE WALL STREET JOURNALBy Carrie Keller-LynnSept. 5, 2024RAMAT GAN, Israel—Yechiel Wais was so excited to join the Israeli military that he couldn’t sleep the night before he went to a military enlistment site this week. The 19-year-old from an ultra-Orthodox family hoped to join an Air Force unit that loads munitions onto planes.At a military recruitment center a few miles away, Shlomo Roth, also 19 and ultra-Orthodox, said he burned the last draft letter he received as he stood with a group protesting against the military’s enlistment of men from this self-secluding corner of Israeli society. “For us, being in the army is worse than death,” Roth said. Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews, or Haredim as they prefer to be called, are at a critical juncture. So is the Israeli military, which, after a June Supreme Court ruling, is now aiming to draft some 3,000 Haredi men who had previously been exempted if they studied Jewish holy texts in religious seminaries full-time.Despite the interest shown by young men like Wais, most Haredi leaders fear the military is a melting pot that will pull ultra-Orthodox men into mainstream Israeli culture. The military might soon have to decide how to handle large-scale draft dodging at a time when its struggle for additional manpower has been exacerbated by the nearly yearlong war in Gaza.(more)https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/israel-ultra-orthodox-jews-haredi-military-service-b74faaeb
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You cannot "COEXIST" with people who want to kill you.
If they kill their own with no conscience, there is nothing to stop them from killing you.
Rational fear and anger at vicious murderous Islamic terrorists is the same as irrational antisemitism, according to the Leftists
