And so it begins

Last night a friend of mine and his rabbi went to a wedding in Beitar. On the way back at the check point the soldiers stopped the car, swung the door open without requesting that the driver open it, and demanded identification while yelling "achsav, achsav!!" (now, now--achtung, achtung). They said they were looking for bochurim with arrest warrants for evading the draft.

I'm thinking of those Haredim who told us, "Don't worry. There's a draft exemption. They always find a way to keep it going."

That's from the "you'll be fine" book of contemporary Jewish thought, where caution is thrown to the wind about parnassah, medical insurance, anything practical. So we learn how wrong they were.

My thought was that the exemption will not go on forever. As the Haredi population grows, the Hilonim will not tolerate it. Doesn't help that the Dati Leumi/Modern Orthodox are a pack of traitors who side with the Hilonim.

We learn also how wrong we were to not care about how the Israeli military treats Arabs because now it's being directed at Jews. 

In a related story, an imprisoned bochur asked for his tefillin but received the harsh response, "No, you don't deserve it!"

It's time to realize, Israel is not a Jewish state. It's a secular state of Israelis and the Haredim are about as welcome as the Arabs.