Bramo and Yekke2 – +1,000!
MTAB – whether they are in fact a Kiddush Hashem or not (I don’t know enough to comment on that), the way they are being reported is a Chillul Hashem.
bklynmom – that doesn’t make it permissible for it to be publicized this way.
bk613 – they hold that the government shouldn’t be drafting them in the first place. The government is certainly not acting correctly. The army is not run according to halacha. It should not be run that way in the first place, and certainly, those Jews who do follow halacha should not be drafted. No Gedolim disagree on those points, to my knowledge. As far as I know everyone agrees that the government is acting incorrectly; the only disagreement is regarding what our response should be.
I am not discussing whether or not we should judge them favorably since perhaps they are tinok shenishba, etc. I don’t want to get into that. I am not judging them – I am simply judging their actions. Their actions are clearly wrong.