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Наказание невиновных и награждение непричастных (С)

Полезная (для осознания происходящего теми, кто еще не ) статейка Нехемии Штрасслера. Ничего нового. Все обычно и рутинно до "тошноты зубовной" (С, самсебяиздатый). Так и живем. И правые либералы у нас такие, как министр Юваль Штайниц. Да, уж...

Как это было:

This issue has a long history. It began with David Ben-Gurion, who agreed to exempt 400 yeshiva students from army service to perpetuate the legacy of the yeshiva students who were killed in the Holocaust. That sounded reasonable. But in 1977, then-prime minister Menachem Begin made a serious mistake when he agreed that anyone who was studying at a Haredi yeshiva could get out of the army, with no cap on numbers. As a result, the number of "students" rose precipitously, and today they constitute 12 percent of the number of inductees in a draft cohort. The third mistake was made by Ehud Barak, who as prime minister in 1999, established the Tal Committee, from which emerged the Tal Law, which made it even easier for yeshiva students to evade military service. And now, Yuval Steinitz has made this discrimination totally kosher.

It's hard to believe that a man who sees himself as an unequivocal Zionist can adopt such an anti-Zionist position. Steinitz's exemption delivers a knockout to the secular and religious soldiers who are drafted for three years and then do reserve duty. How must they feel, in light of this immoral discrimination? After all, this is clearly a social time bomb that will deepen society's polarization.