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Israeli Opposition Leader @yairlapid issued a stark warning tonight: "We are facing another security disaster."
The IDF Chief of Staff reportedly warned the Security Cabinet that the military will "collapse in on itself" because of manpower shortages. Reservists are exhausted after endless rounds, pulling them away from their families and jobs—as the government tries to exempt the Ultra-Orthodox from the draft.
Channel 13 reported today that Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir is warning the IDF needs a conscription law, a reserve duty law, and an extension to mandatory service in order to fulfill its growing routine missions.
Now Lapid is warning: "The IDF is stretched to the limit and beyond."
He's urging the Netanyahu government to "stop the cowardice, immediately halt all budgets to the Haredi draft dodgers, send the military police after the deserters, draft the Haredim without hesitation, and must fight Jewish terrorism with all means."
"The warning has been given," he said. "It's on your heads. It's on your hands. You cannot continue to abandon Israel's security, in wartime, for petty politics. As was once customary to say: Let the IDF win."
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