IDF spokesman says thousands of members of the ultra-Orthodox community are asking to enlist with the military.
This is unprecedented. They've never done this before.
Although there have always been a few volunteers to the IDF the Orthodox are exempted from Israel's draft and didn't volunteer in large numbers for either of Israel's two most dangerous wars (48 and 73).
@Render
Is this a cultural threshold for that community?
What else does it indicate besides the high level of fear and/or anger?
Is there a religious influence within their decision?
My fear is that they are driven by an ethnic-cleansing anger and not a war effort that will ultimately deliver stability and regional peace.
@Render
Thanks.
I think Hamas supporters are 2/3 religiously driven and 1/3 rabid. We should be on-guard everywhere for those people. I fear that in my hometown far from Israel.
The Palestinian supporters are a different mix of those attributes with a smattering of sophomoric assurance that all will be better when the fighting stops. It's like taking aspirin to heal a festering boil on your forehead to minimize the pain.
Yet, there are many ways of dealing with that boil.
@jurban
1: Yes.
2: Nothing.
3: No.
4: Is that also your fear from the Hamas invasion and the surge of violent Hamas supporters world wide?