IDF chief warns lawmakers that army 'will fall apart' without additional soldiers

Dont forget lady Lindsay Graham.

Like most blatantly religious people.

What does that mean?

Not really but loopholes are literally the whole game. You end up with a set of rules you should follow, a set of rules you're comfortable following and a set of rules people interpret differently and you can get groups that treat that one "source code" very very different. It's why majority of Jews in Israel are secular and generally are only Jewish on paper and follow a handful of rules even they see fit or at social gathering to "save face". But that "minority" (they're like 20% at this point which is not really a minority) Ultra Orthodox is the loud one and causes a lot of BS internally and around the world. No one likes them but because of ancient government laws/rules/bills and whatever they get a ridiculous amount of power and religion is invovled in politics way too much. There's never been a real push to saperate religion from the state because of it... Something a lot of people want for a long time.

they can work logistics, be cooks, medics, various other non combat roles that would free up other troops for frontlines.

What makes you think they'll be worse than any other soldier? In fact they're used to a much lower standard of living and to blindly following what they're told. That should make them better soldiers, if anything.

The kind that will happily commit a bunch of known war crimes and then manage to come up with a few new ones?

Does it matter? Surely the frontline infantry always need fresh meat.

The US ones are working, the Israeli ones are mostly not.

They’re already all throughout NY and parts of NJ

> prolong operations That's not to be underestimated. Soldiers need rest/rotations and especially all those reservists being called to duty have civilian jobs that they can't do while on active duty. The longer the conflict, the more soldiers are needed. It's not only about replenishing losses.

Netanyahu has been saying he wants to gradually wean off US aid after 2028. Also, US aid is only a small fraction of Israel's military budget. Most of the budget is funded by Israeli taxpayers.

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People were mostly on Isreal's side after oct 7th but you know the whole killing over 60000 palestinians including ALOT of god damn children in 4k resolution tends to kill any sympathy people have for countries champ but hey I guess eating boots is fun bud

Ooof. The IRGC bots already arrived.

This is either sarcasm or delusional.

This conflict has been going on long before Oct 7th.

Who is "they?" There has been nearly continuous conflict in that area for thousands of years.

Big “Iraq was justified” vibes.

Who threw the first stone?

Because they are killing brown people. The republicans never gave a f*** about the country, its always been fuelled by hate and hate alone. Anything else is just a cover story.

Yep, they said they need 20,000 more personnel and there are about a hundred thousand people of age that are exempt at the moment Even 1/5 serving would resolve the issue   Probably shouldn't be involved in multiple conflicts simultaneously But the PM wants to avoid trial, so they are stuck   /$

Yeah the reservists are getting called up over and over again. Makes it pretty hard for them to attend university or start careers or families, so you can see why it's not popular amongst them.

De facto only around two thirds serve. Arabs and some other minority groups are exempt due to obvious moral reasons. That's roughly 20% of the population. Ultraorthodox Jews are also defacto exempt. That's another 10% and that's the part he's hinting at.

Hamas and Hezbollah are also very well fed. Notably Hamas, whose militants never seem to have issues obtaining food, while the same cannot be said for their civilians.