Feb 5, 2023

Quote of the Day

If Netanyahu will fold on [the judicial reforms issue] that will be the end of the ability of religious Jews to live in the Land of Israel. They are fighting for the Supreme Court so that they can make us leave our religion. The Supreme Court is the head of those chasing down the rights of the Haredi minority sector... everybody admits that the IDF does not need a mandatory draft law. I have proposed a law to cancel the mandatory draft. Mandatory draft is just so they can make us leave our religion. It is Yaharog V'Al Yaavor.

  -- MK Yisroel Eichler (UTJ)

I love his "the world was created for me" approach. All anyone wants to do is make the Haredim no longer religious, and surely they think it is possible, as if it is still the 1950s when there really was a battle over religion despite the massive numbers of religious people in Israel.. And remember when everyone in UTJ was scoffing at the Leftists who claimed they would leave the country if Netanyahu won - taunting them to keep their promises (some even suggested that would be a good solution to the housing crisis), Eichler sounds no different - if I dont get my way we will have to leave the country. The religious and Haredi community have flourished like nowhere else, either because of or in spite of the way the government works here. There is nothing about any way the governemnt works that even if it went totally against UTJs preferences would force them to leave.




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6 comments:

  1. ThomasFebruary 05, 2023 4:17 PM

    Without a mandatory draft, how many will leave the yeshivot?

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 06, 2023 12:32 AM

    Why in the world would a real religious person be against the reforms in the judiciary?
    Israel has the most draconian supreme court in the western democratic world; that's called a dictatorship! Is his interpretation of Torah ' a dictatorship' chas v'sholom? What is wrong
    here? Being against dictatorship is rational and normal, not the reverse.

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  3. NachumFebruary 06, 2023 12:33 PM

    I think that to every party pursuing judicial reform, the possibility of a draft law is really, really low on the list of concerns. Except for this lovely.

    You also have to love that when it concerns him, he suddenly becomes a libertarian.

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  4. NachumFebruary 06, 2023 12:34 PM

    Oh, and of all things threatening Judaism (which can't really exist considering how it's flourishing), the draft has to be pretty low too.

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  5. Garnel IronheartFebruary 06, 2023 3:09 PM

    Nothing new. I remember when Yair Lapid first came to prominence and Chareidim were saying "He does nothing else day or night but think of ways to destroy us!" They think of nothing but themselves and really believe everyone else only thinks about them too.

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