Posted on 06/22/2026 11:56:47 AM PDT by Morgana
Violent clashes erupted outside an Israeli military detention facility as ultra-Orthodox protesters demonstrated against the arrest of draft evaders amid the ongoing dispute over military conscription. Footage showed large crowds confronting police and attempting to breach the perimeter of the prison, where individuals accused of avoiding military service were being held. The protests highlight deep divisions within Israeli society over efforts to expand military service requirements to the Haredi community. The issue has become one of the most contentious political and social debates in Israel, with opponents arguing that mandatory service threatens their religious way of life, while supporters insist equal national service obligations should apply to all citizens.
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The Haredi are becoming a larger percentage of the Israeli population and this is going to become a bigger problem over time.
If your ass is protected by others doing the needful, you can also serve your country.
Most folks aren’t grunts. They can assist in logistics or medical, somewhere were you not likely to fight.
But they are alive because others fight and die for their butts.
Get off your ass and help.
Plus aren’t these wackadoodles the ones that spit on Christians?
They’re waiting for a decendent of Antigonus II, the last Davidic King of Judea at the end of the Maccabean period to be identified.
That is because the Haredi is the only group not having abortions and actually having children.
I agree.
The entire David line was killed off by the Romans. There are no more descendants. The Messiah has already come.
The orthodox who won’t serve are freeloading off of those who do. The non-orthodox should demand: “You don’t serve, you don’t live here.”
Antigonus II was a Levite, not Davidic.
I think some Orthodox Jews want to die in Israel as martyrs.
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