If Netanyahu will fold on [the judicial reforms issue] that will be the end of the ability of religious Jews to live in the Land of Israel. They are fighting for the Supreme Court so that they can make us leave our religion. The Supreme Court is the head of those chasing down the rights of the Haredi minority sector... everybody admits that the IDF does not need a mandatory draft law. I have proposed a law to cancel the mandatory draft. Mandatory draft is just so they can make us leave our religion. It is Yaharog V'Al Yaavor.
-- MK Yisroel Eichler (UTJ)
I love his "the world was created for me" approach. All anyone wants to do is make the Haredim no longer religious, and surely they think it is possible, as if it is still the 1950s when there really was a battle over religion despite the massive numbers of religious people in Israel.. And remember when everyone in UTJ was scoffing at the Leftists who claimed they would leave the country if Netanyahu won - taunting them to keep their promises (some even suggested that would be a good solution to the housing crisis), Eichler sounds no different - if I dont get my way we will have to leave the country. The religious and Haredi community have flourished like nowhere else, either because of or in spite of the way the government works here. There is nothing about any way the governemnt works that even if it went totally against UTJs preferences would force them to leave.
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