In Israel, practically everybody is in the military, has been in the military, or will be in the military. Whenever I hear that an israeli soldier had something bad occur to him , I don't think: Hey he knew the risks etc., rather I think "Oy, a jewish boy was hurt." This is because Israelis don't have a choice whether to be in the military or not. The draft is compulsory. If there is a war in the mid east, and it involves Israel, it is because they were directly threatened by some vicious arab country and they had to fight for survival. All these soldiers are heroes. I do not think of them as soldiers so much as mainstream israelis who put their lives on the line for everone else. Which leads me to this posts' question-Is the disobedience justified? Are these soldiers wrong in refusing to evict jews from Hebron? Or are they entirely within their rights as israeli citizens and jews to protest the governments' expulsion of their fellow jews? Here's a quote from ARIEL SHARON I saw posted on Arutz Sheva-
“In contrast to the days of exile, it is not only the right, but the obligation of every Jew, in a Jewish democratic state, to stand up and warn his government, through passive resistance, of the disaster that it is bringing upon all of us. What Jews could not do in Germany and Poland before their extermination, they must do in their own country. They have to rise en masse and resist.”
-Wow.
Saturday, August 11, 2007
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