Knesset representatives are liars. The army lies. The judicial system surely lies and everyone knows that everything is one deception but know one is prepared to admit it.
The battle against the Torah world and the desire to bring it to serve in the army is designed to destroy it. All the talk about the good will of the Torah persecutors being ready and willing to tailor themselves to the needs of the chareidim is one disgusting lie lacking any backing in reality.
We, for sure, need none of their bluff since, as far as we are concerned, we know for sure that the Torah world is the Protector of the entire Jewish people. It is its veritable sword, bow and arrow. Nevertheless, it is vital to discredit, once and for all, the deceptive sayings being flung around in the marginal edges of our camp, as if there exists a possibility to conduct a Torah life within the army barracks.
We are not the ones insisting this, but those with the sad experience behind them, those who believed wholeheartedly and naively the army promises to adapt themselves to the needs of those who keep the mitzvos and to be attuned to their needs, values, beliefs — they can testify. The head of the Hesder in Yeruchom, Rabbi Chaim Wolfson, told of one their students who fell in this past war; he was deceived by the army system, in spite of explicit guarantees of being together under separate groups throughout his military service, but was soon forced to be labeled as 'problematic', as all of their promises were downtrodden. He was forced to leave his unit simply in order to preserve his religious identity and world view.
Rabbi Wolfson relates at length a long story of struggle, summing up with the words, "The expectation that such a soldier will forego his spiritual identity and knuckle under to the system will not happen. And we are not prepared for such a thing."
But it does, indeed, happen. Not everyone has the courage to stand up to a system which mocks his basic halachic needs. Just this week, tens of religious fighters decided to absent themselves from a "Commemorative Evening" for the Golani division, in the course of which Jewish values were trampled. "They expect us to flow with the stream, to look aside and keep our mouths shut," remarked one of the participants. "It's hard." Another said, "The army expects us to fight, but does not honor our needs."
The head of the Noam Division, MK Avi Maoz, who was present at this evening, reported, "The Golani Division event proves clearly what I have been saying for a long time: The IDF is not interested in absorbing chareidi soldiers. Hundreds of soldiers were forced to leave this military event because the army was not interested in taking their needs into consideration. And then they come and ask why yeshiva students refuse to be drafted.
Why are chareidi families wary or sending their sons to the army? Here, then, is the answer: Even those religious soldiers who fight on the most difficult fronts do not receive the minimal consideration they deserve."
The Israeli army is based on the very tenets that are at odds with the values of the Torah world, and it is not prepared to compromise on this. The battle being waged against the Torah world is aimed at destroying it completely. Any tales about 'special units' or 'consideration with the needs of the draftees' are proven lies as can be readily heard from the heads of the Hesder organizations who send their students out to battle and are confronted with blatant abuse by the army authorities.
Thus, as already stated, we don't need those stories in order to fight against the draft decree, but, rather, need to expose those lies. The army does not want chareidim within its ranks. It is looking for chareidim from whom their chareidism can be uprooted, Heaven forfend!
