Posted on 12/27/2024 5:15:34 AM PST by RandFan
Israel’s war on multiple fronts has not just worn down its enemy. It's not just taken the lives of thousands of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon. It’s also continuing to extract a price from its own people.
There’s a growing sense of war weariness in Israel. The recent ceasefire deal with Lebanon will be a relief for many. Not least for Noam Glukhovsky – an IDF reservist, who’s spent much of the past year serving on the front line as a medic.
We spoke to Noam, 33, in Tel Aviv before the ceasefire was announced. “We can’t keep doing this war for much longer. We just don’t have the manpower to keep going on without a clear end date and goal,” he said.
As an IDF reservist Noam would normally expect to do a few weeks of military service a year. But this past year he’s spent 250 days in uniform. The war, he said, had ripped him away from the life he knew. His plans to become a doctor have also been set back by a year.
When we meet Noam was trying to catch up with his studies, but also waiting to see whether he’d be called up again. His mood was defiant.
“I can’t put my life on hold anymore,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
War takes its toll. Remember this armchair generals (neocons and Zeepers...)
The ultra-orthodox disgust me. They avoid conscription as if they are somehow above those who serve. Serving in non combat positions would still help Israelis that do their duty.
Drivelous balderdash from a resident of a failed state
Mediocre Britain was once Great
‘war-weariness’???
The Israeli’s have been at war with these squatters since the end of World War 2... They will never give up, never give in and never surrender to these anti-Zionist pigs.
The leaders of these highly structured communities realize they lose control if young people serve in the military. Usually these structured communities such as the polygamous Mormom compounds, the Amish, the ultra Orthodox in NY generally have a loss rate of 2-5% despite the strong emotional bonds on these young men. Often military recruiters are there for them and many become excellent soldiers and the military becomes their conduit into mainstram life.
As a strong Israel supporter, I support a rest, relax and rearm period for the IDF. The pace and intensity of deployments is wearing out the nation.
“...It’s not just taken the lives of thousands of civilians in Gaza and Lebanon....”.
Stopped reading BBC garbage right there.
#2. "Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
-- George Santayana, Soliloquies in England
#3. "Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.”
― Golda Meir, A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography
#4. Israeli Jews only have two options: fight or die.
If they fight, they might die. If they cease fighting, they will die.
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