'Israelis unconcerned with rise in religious IDF officers'

jpost.com ^ | 9/15/10 | YAAKOV KATZ

[Nachum]

Survey finds public not so bothered about growing number of IDF commanders and officers who stem from the national-religious camp.

A majority of the public is not concerned with the growing number of IDF commanders and officers who stem from the national-religious camp, according to a survey by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar Ilan University.

Some 79 percent of the respondents said they were not “concerned at all” with the growing number of religious officers in the IDF, in contrast to 1 percent who said they were very concerned.

The study was conducted ahead of a conference to be held Wednesday in conjunction with the Kinneret Institute for Society, Security and Peace Research on the challenge the IDF faces given the growing number of religious commanders in its ranks.

In other findings, 90% of those surveyed claimed that at least a few officers would refuse orders to evacuate settlements in the West Bank, with 33% saying that “many” officers would refuse orders. Ten percent said that not a single officer would refuse orders.

[Nachum]

But Obama is very concerned

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[Buggman]

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[SunkenCiv]

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