Reply To: Rabbis and the draft

on the ball-

Some yes and some no. From the way I understand there are two Charedi positions about the existence of the medinah. Some would theoretically support a medinah, but are against the current one with its secular values. While others are against the concept of a medinah before Mashiach. They also view the army differently too. The first group may not see something inherently treif with the army, their position is that it doesn’t override Talmud Torah, and that the army needs to meet all the religious needs of its soliders. The other camp’s position is that one is not allowed to aid the medinah at all, as it is a ma’aseh Satan.

I could be wrong, and I don’t really have a proof for this (as I don’t know which camp any particular poster belongs to, and I don’t know which camp any particular Rov or group of Rabbonim belong to), but it seems that these two camps (not necessarily the Rabbonim but the “baal habatim”) look at the Religious Zionist position with more disdain then they look at each other’s position.