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05 October 2025

Rabbi Weissman:

 

Suicide Mission or Jail

Uncomfortable questions for Jews who support compulsory IDF servitude


Here are a couple of articles about four IDF soldiers who were recently jailed for refusing to go on a mission that they believed recklessly endangered their lives for no justifiable reason.

The Week

The soldiers refused to carry out the orders as they were vulnerable to sniper fire or RPGs from the abandoned but not destroyed buildings in the area, they pointed out. If they were not being given armoured vehicles, they should be allowed to use the cover of darkness instead, they maintained. IDF has had enough experience already in Gaza to know this and there was no immediate reason to force them to choose the risky path instead, they reportedly told KAN News. Dying trying to save a fellow comrade is one thing while becoming cannon fodder is another, they claimed.

The Jerusalem Post:

“During the day, we’re like ducks at a shooting range. It’s easy to be shot by a sniper or a rocket-propelled grenade. This is a real threat to our lives. These are things that have already happened; the IDF should’ve learned this by now.

“I don’t even mind getting killed if I’m saving my friends,” he continued. “We feel like we’ve been spat on in the face.”

“The KAN report interviewed a mother of one of the arrested soldiers, who also said that the military “spat in the faces of the soldiers.”

“The commander of the soldiers’ battalion responded to critics of the order, stating: “I am the battalion commander, making decisions about human lives every minute. I have the discretion regarding the risk to my soldiers in relation to the values ​​of the mission. A red line has been crossed here, of refusing to carry out a very legitimate mission.”

Yeah, that’s a milchemes mitzvah, all right...

The average Jew who sides with the soldiers who defied the orders, not the IDF overlords who gave them.

Meanwhile, many of the same people ALSO support jailing people who refuse to join the IDF, where their bodies and souls would be subjugated under these same overlords.

So here’s a question for your confused, brainwashed family and friends:

As Eliyahu Hanavi challenged Jews who worshipped Ba’al, but also believed in Hashem, how long will you keep jumping back and forth between contradictory views? (See Melachim I 18:21.)

You support forcing people to join a secular army where they have to choose between going on a suicide mission for no justifiable reason or getting thrown in jail… but you also find it outrageous when this happens… and you support the imprisoned soldiers over the IDF… yet the people you hate the most are yeshiva students who choose to skip this deranged Molech charade and go to prison before the fact?

How does THAT make sense?

Cognitive dissonance at its very finest.

How is it that IDF soldiers are in jail for refusing to be killed for nothing, and yeshiva students are in jail for refusing to join an army that clearly doesn’t respect them and their lives, but exactly zero IDF brass are in jail for allowing October 7 to happen?

How is it that zero IDF brass are in jail for geting upwards of 20,000 soldiers needlessly, unjustifiably maimed and killed in little Gaza in less than two years, sending so many precious people on insane “missions” such as these?

How many more Jews need to be maimed and killed for dubious reasons, sacrificed on the idolatrous altar of failed ideologies, before there is a sea change? 

When will the limbs and lives of your loves ones matter more than doubling down on more of the same and expecting different results?

You want to keep supporting these institutions, and even making a religious ideal out of it, knock yourself out.

But you need to face these questions already.


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