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The IDF Reservists Thought They Had Used Their Winning Card Against the Judicial Overhaul, but Netanyahu Abandoned the Wheel and Set Israel on a Path to a Constitutional Crisis The Security Cabinet Has Not Convened to Discuss the IDF's Readiness Amid a Severe Manpower Shortage, and Some Reservists Believe the Chief of Staff Needs to Bang Harder on the Table
From the blog of Jean Pierre Braun at The Times of Israel
Without minimizing this year’s tensions, given the events surrounding the First Lebanon War, is the current political polarization really “unprecedented?”
“You cannot have an army where people say that if the government doesn’t do what I want, I won’t serve. Today, it will be judicial reform. Tomorrow, it will be removal of settlements,” said Maj. Gen. (res.) Amir Avivi.
The IDF is composed of many people for whom convictions go to the root of their being. Sometimes the government will make decisions that go against these convictions.