It seems to me that all of the time, effort and funds invested by the national religious community in establishing pre-army preparatory yeshivot would have been better spent setting up even only 10% of these as serious pre-law programs for yeshiva students intending to study law at Israeli law schools.
Guy Bechor says that the Israeli public won't tolerate causalties. I think that is wrong: 2 years ago as well as today the public was willing but the Olmert government was unwilling. Just 6 years ago, under a different government, we were perfectly willing to send soldiers into the West Bank refugee camps, despite the high causalty levels in i.e. Jenin.
(Of course, then perhaps we SHOULD have attacked from the air to avoid endangering our soldiers... but the immorality of the current "human rights" mantra is a topic for another comment.)
It seems to me that all of the time, effort and funds invested by the national religious community in establishing pre-army preparatory yeshivot would have been better spent setting up even only 10% of these as serious pre-law programs for yeshiva students intending to study law at Israeli law schools.
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Guy Bechor says that the Israeli public won't tolerate causalties. I think that is wrong: 2 years ago as well as today the public was willing but the Olmert government was unwilling. Just 6 years ago, under a different government, we were perfectly willing to send soldiers into the West Bank refugee camps, despite the high causalty levels in i.e. Jenin.
ReplyDelete(Of course, then perhaps we SHOULD have attacked from the air to avoid endangering our soldiers... but the immorality of the current "human rights" mantra is a topic for another comment.)
uhm, shouldnt you write a humble apology?
ReplyDeleteThe IDF is moving into Gaza now.
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