H.A. Hazony@HAHazony
This is worth explaining, because I understand a lot of Christians are offended that their holy rituals are interrupted (just as I would be).
During a war, the government relies on public order to avoid mass casualties. Every night, tens of thousands of civilians go to their bomb shelters to avoid bombing.
There is no way for the government to enforce this discipline. But it's absolutely necessary. If there was constant chaos and thousands of dead, the government would have to stop the war.
The general discipline of the populace is dependent on the fact that everyone willingly complies. If particular individuals take it upon themselves to avoid shelter, go into no-go zones, congregate in public, etc. it creates a motion of disorder that cannot be stopped by the police.
That is why the police act to prevent individuals from violating directives. Not because their particular action is problematic (see for example, the admirable desicion by Pizzaballa to risk his life for the Mass), but because it will create a semblance of disorder in which each individual chooses for themselves and upends public discipline.
I know that Americans in general really dislike the notion of the the government enforcing order. Much more so than Europeans and MEsterners. But Israel is not the US, rest assured Christians are not any more controlled by the government than Jews are.
Additionally, many people have simply never been in a war. They do not understand the kind of governmental control necessary to win wars when the homeland is being bombed. This is a constant problem with Americans. They are blessed with having not been threatened in the homeland, and they truly do not understand what is required. Therefore, they see a government's actions during war as tyrannical.
Because, indeed, during peace-time, they would be tyrannical. For example, preventing teachers from teaching schools, artists preforming in public, families from hosting weddings and funerals, clergy from conducting services, etc. etc. are all things which would be completely tyrannical during peace.
But only a radical individualist would maintain that these things are a right that the government can't temper during war. The victory of the nation must limit the freedoms of the individuals, if only temporarily.
So too, the right to travel in and out of the borders, the right to trade certain commodities, the right of the press to publicize certain facts, etc. etc. etc. none of this is anti-Chrisitian in sentiment. It's what Israelis take as a matter of course because they've lived through multiple wars and understand that communal spirit and national cooperation is necessary to win wars. You can't always be thinking of yourself.
