To: Les H who wrote (46148 ) 6/5/2025 7:29:23 AM From: Les H Read Replies (1) | Respond to Netanyahu's Coalition Near Collapse After Selling Out to Israel's Most Extreme MinorityThe country's most disastrous may be about to fall, but not because of October 7 or more than 600 days of war. It could fall because the politician at its head failed to ensure that 80,000 young ultra-Orthodox men who are subject to conscription got a perpetual exemption It is only now teetering because the politician at its head failed in his efforts to ensure that 80,000 young Haredi men who are subject to conscription would receive a perpetual exemption, padded with billions of shekels for the parties that represent them in the government. There will be early elections, although it is not clear when, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sold his soul to the country's most extreme and obstreperous community, one that demands institutionalized draft evasion even as soldiers from the rest of society are being killed and injured almost every day. increase in the quota for reserve duty days to 450,000, for the fifth or sixth time) while he works behind the scenes to advance the most immoral law in the history of the state.The ultra-Orthodox say his opposition to the exemption law is his revenge for not getting a cabinet post. Perhaps. But it's also possible that he believes the exemption is wrong.On Wednesday, the three Haredi factions said they would back a bill dissolving the Knesset. The fact that the Shas party joined in the threat shocked the prime minister and his people. Is this Aryeh? Our Aryeh? Yes. Dery is subordinate to his super-extremist rabbis, who defer to their Ashkenazi brothers. If it were up to Dery, he would turn off the lights in the government compound. But not this time. Without a doubt, the snowball is moving ahead faster than anyone expected. The Shavuot holiday deadline set by the rabbis set off any warning signals in the Prime Minister's Office. Complacency based on the belief that the Haredim would never bring down the government of their dreams has run afoul of elderly rabbis – all in their ninth and 10th decades – for whom draft notices are filth that "should be flushed down the toilet." They may find that the Israeli voter flushes them down the political toilet, and sentences them to a long exile in the opposition, a punishment for their impudence, arrogance and greed. archive.ph
