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Mar 28, 2024
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My position that we can no longer come to terms with entire sectors being exempted from army service is well known. Together with that, the obstinacy of the Supreme Court to obligate the government to change a situation that nobody has been able to change for 70 years specifically now, during an ongoing war, is infuriating, idiocy and plays into the hands of the enemies of Israel.
-- MK Hanoch Midiwsky (Likud)
He's not wrong, but.....
he is not wrong, the world wont come to an end if they give a 6 month extension or whatnot.
On the other hand it is not the Supreme Court's fault that PM Netanyahu has done his utmost to avoid legislating this and has repeatedly pushed it off to later...
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Your kid has to go out to meet a friend at 4 pm. At 10 am you tell him he has to clean his room before he can go out. He says "Yeah, yeah, later". At 12 you remind him and it's the same response. At 2 pm, same thing. And at 3:55 as he's putting on his coat, you block then door and say "I warned you. No going out until you clean your room." And his response? "Now, when I have to go, now you tell me?"
ReplyDeleteNot a good analogy.
DeleteThe kid did nothing to fix the situation.
Various administrations have tried many times and in many ways to fix the yeshiva/army issue and never were able to come to a politcal agreement.
The Knesset under Bibi has made no serious attempt because Bibi is willing to sell out the whole country to ensure that the Chareidi parties support him.
DeleteRemember that brief government he had with Lapid and Bennet? It was stable, it was centrist, it has a spectrum of MK's religiously and Bibi spent the entire two years of existence undermining it so he could roll the dice again and create a new government with the Chareidi parties in it.
So most of Israel is tired of his "Sure, yeah, we'll get to it soon, don't worry" lies.
70 years?
ReplyDeleteIronically the Court is also reminding us of why the judicial reform legislation was so necessary,. Once again they've reminded us that Israel is a dictatorship with a secular, unaccountable Court running the country while the Knesset is just there for looks.
DeleteThe left's FLAGSHIP programs - Oslo and Gush Katif expulsion - both required Haredi support in the Knesset. Sha$ in 1992-1996 and United "Tora" Judiasm in 2005. If we now had a similar leftwing gov't now relying Haredi MKs for a majority, we ALL know that Supreme Court would not be intervening and extensions would be easily forthcoming even after 100 years of delay. REMINDER -- in advance of 2022 elections, Ganz said Haredi parties would get a BLANK check. Methinks that Supreme Court would have blessed THAT - after all, it's for the sake of 'peace'
ReplyDeleteFINAL REMARK --> BOTH Haredi and Supreme Court are happy to sell us all out for their ideologies which ironically is SIMILAR - (i) fewer guns for Jews and (ii) blindly obeying 'gedolim' - either the Haredi gedolim or Aaron Barak/Esther Hayut
Something I observed years ago.
DeleteWhat people used to say about Rav Eliashiv, z'l, was that everything for him was seen through the lens of halakha. Everything, even family relationships and daily personal interactions.
And Aharon Barak once boasted that he sees everything through the lens of "enlightened secular law". Everything was a legal issue to him.
Differently legal systems but essentially the same person.