Rabbi Weissman

 A Purely Theoretical Question

Because YOUR leaders would never betray you or use you as cannon fodder

As new death traps, operational accidents, negligence, and intelligence failures are being prepared for our intrepid warriors — our remainingintrepid warriors after the last 16 months of utterly worthless carnage, after which we are worse off than before, with thousands of terrorists let loose to boot — IDF soldiers are increasingly starting to question whether religious obedience to authority is more frightening than a flickering display of disobedience. 

There’s still a very steep learning curve to be traversed, and our people are paying bitterly for their education, but they are learning:

Soldiers in the Carmeli Brigade send sharply worded letter to the brigade commander

"We do not want to be cannon fodder for deals of surrender," the soldiers wrote, adding, "How can we have the motivation to return, fight, and risk our lives in operational activities on land that will be handed back to our enemy in a few days? Our home is not ready to receive us, either disabled or in coffins, when all our efforts will only serve as leverage for deals to release terrorists."

The following is not a call to action, just a purely theoretical question for entertainment purposes.

Some guy with more pins on his uniform than you, with an impressive track record of intelligence failures, negligence, heresy, and conflicts of interest with foreign entities (but absolutely no chance of treason), orders you to go into Gaza, where you are quite likely to get killed or your limbs blown off for no truly justifiable reason. How do you respond?

A) Yes, sir! Whatever you say, sir!

B) Full steam ahead! Until victory!

C) I don't want to get killed or maimed for nothing, but an army cannot function without discipline and total obedience to authority, so I am willing to get maimed or killed primarily so the army can continue to function.

D) After you.

E) Try and make me. I dare you.

Riding the Jerusalem light rail today I spotted a secular woman at an intersection waving a big yellow flag. I wonder if she was getting paid by the state-sponsored Bring Them Home Now psy-op or if this is her substitute religion.

Also, shouldn't it be a white flag?

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ME:  It might be better to sit in military jail, where they have to abide by Intern’l laws, rather than erev Rav laws on the ground. Read what Rav Landau says.