The Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) chief of staff has warned the military is “going to collapse in on itself” unless the country forces more people to enlist.
Eyal Zamir made the claim during a cabinet security meeting, Israel’s Channel 13 reported on Thursday.
“Right now, the IDF needs a conscription law, a reserve duty law, and a law to extend mandatory service,” the channel quoted him as saying. “Before long, the IDF will not be ready for its routine missions and the reserve system will not last.”
Israel has compulsory military service for a majority of citizens, but Haredi – or ultra-Orthodox – Jews are among those who are exempt. A draft bill aimed at ending this exemption has ignited widespread controversy.
After two and a half years of carrying out a genocide in Gaza, large numbers of IDF troops are reportedly exhausted amid reports of thousands suffering from severe PTSD.
The IDF is now fighting on multiple fronts. Shortly after launching the illegal and unprovoked war on Iran in late February, it also illegally invaded Lebanon to seize more land there. Hezbollah forces have reportedly mounted fierce resistance – and say they have destroyed ten invading tanks in two ambushes.
Oxfam said earlier this week that Israel is attacking water infrastructure in Lebanon, repeating a genocidal tactic it used in Gaza.
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there’s swaths of Jewish communities scattered around the world that stupidly support killing women and children… take them from their comfy couches and what it and ship em to israel then…
the diaspora are waking up and distancing themselves from Israel. sadly not enough.
The diaspora took their fare share of the genocide. Thousands of European binationals rushed to join the IDF in Gaza
we aren’t a monolith.
there’s a massive schism in modern judaism. and it’s because of zionism. tearing communities and even families appart. there’s a lot of explicitly antizionist synagogues popping up.
Judaism will survive, but zionism is about to die.
You don’t get to invade, conquer and outright slaughter all your neighbors if you don’t have scores of soldiers to send to battle wave after wave. Rome would know
of itself … good.
I hope it does.
The problem is that Netanyahu NEEDS perpetual-escalation, & so therefore his ideological-rabies puts nuking Iran on the table.
which is bad, obviously.
Which is why Iran wanted nukes of their own, obviously.
We are but Netanyahu’s accessories in his crimes, now, thanks to our helping Trump.
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