Minister of Science (Yesh Atid) Yaakov Peri announced his party will not permit compromise on the chareidi draft law. Peri stated they will not permit passing a diluted form of the law that does not compel chareidim to serve in the military.
His statements were in an apparent response to Bayit Yehudi party efforts to remove the criminal sanctions against chareidim who fail to comply with the new law. Peri and his colleagues feel criminal sanctions are a must in order to compel chareidim to comply with the law. Peri stated that efforts by Ayelet Shaked to replace criminal sanctions with economic sanctions are unacceptable.
Regarding widespread opposition in the chareidi community, Peri stated “The chareidim have to change their tune and realize they too will have to abide by the laws of the country.”
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Peri said “…realize they too will have to abide by the laws of the country.” I see condescension and incitement in his statement. Condescension, that Peri needs to educate chareidim who are not civilized to follow the law. And incitement by implying that chareidim don’t follow the law and that is a misleading point. The opposition is to the formulation of the law that does not allow an exemption for “Torato umanuto” which is valid and accepted in developed and free countries (as religious studies) such as the USA. What Peri meant was “they have to realize they too will have to abide by the laws of . . . Lapid!”
The Zionists came to a country that already existed and expect citizens who were there hundreds of years before them to abide by their G-dless Torahless laws. It should be sufficient for them that charedim are paying them taxes from which hardly anything gets to their yeshivot. It won’t help them, these Zionists. They can scream until they turn blue. They should release all Arabs from their prisons because no charedi will abide by the Cantonist Law by Zionist shkatzim.
There is no “win-win” solution. Either Israel will be a Jewish state (the hilonim lose, and will either have to leave or to remain in a state as an alienated minority group), or Israel will be a zionist state (the hareidim lose, and will either have to leave, or remain and be subject to severe persecution). The religious zionists hoped to steer matters into a status quo that will be tolerable for all but have failed.
Let him peyger. The Torah world will happily march into prison rather than submit this zionist Shas Shmad.