What a letter! Yasher Koach.
B”H, somebody finally wrote in to bring up these points in a mainstream public forum.
The Zionists here, as usual, can’t help but defend their idolatry.
JewishFeminist02 and Gamanit, the very minor problem with your analogy is that the State is forbidden by the Torah. So you can’t claim the State is the helicopter pilot; rather, the State is more likely the drowning waters.
yankel, he quoted two gemaras which indicate precisely the opposite of what you wrote: hakaras haTov is NOT always appropriate even if someone “does you a favor”.
oomis, he addressed your post too: there is no obligation to “make sacrifices for E”Y” for Israel’s real estate holdings.
You also missed his entire point that it is the Chareidim’s mesiras nefesh in learning untold hours of learning per day that is keeping the people safe *despite* the shmad of the IDF. You also missed his point that Israel and the IDF wish to shmad the chareidim who they get to join the IDF.
Let’s also assume for a moment that you are correct that by flooding the IDF with chareidim that the IDF will somehow become some “National Religious” army. How many Jews shmaded is it worth it to you for that to happen? Clearly, the change would not come overnight and many Jewish souls would fall prey, CH”V, to Zionist shmad (not to mention the physical dangers), Hashem yishmor, before such change would happen.
B”H; what a letter!