{"id":1201,"date":"2006-05-09T12:24:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T10:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/the-sgt-dayan-case-idf-degrading-due-to-rejecting-its-best-soldiers-and-recruits-the-religious\/"},"modified":"2006-05-09T12:31:02","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T10:31:02","slug":"the-sgt-dayan-case-idf-degrading-due-to-rejecting-its-best-soldiers-and-recruits-the-religious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/09\/the-sgt-dayan-case-idf-degrading-due-to-rejecting-its-best-soldiers-and-recruits-the-religious\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sgt. Dayan Case: IDF Degrading Due to Rejecting, De-Humanizing its Best Soldiers and Recruits, the Religious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1145961305988&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Our World: The IDF&#8217;s Suicide Attempt, by Caroline Glick<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/DanHalutz.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/HananelDayan.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/Elazar SternMajorGeneral.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Excerpts;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230; The IDF&#8217;s treatment of Dayan; its new recruitment guidelines and Halutz&#8217;s anti-religious rhetoric reveal a dangerous politicization of the IDF.<\/em>  It seems that today, with Hamas now in charge of the Palestinian Authority and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz now in charge of Israel, <em>the IDF views Israelis rather than Arabs as its principal threat. Halutz and Stern, in criminalizing actions like Dayan&#8217;s while minimizing the significance of the Hamas takeover of the Palestinian Authority are sending a clear signal of where they believe the IDF should be devoting its energies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The IDF General Staff&#8217;s decision to attack religious Zionists is perhaps the most disturbing development in Israel&#8217;s recent past.<\/em>   Israel is in the middle of a war &#8212; a war it has given its enemies every reason to believe they are winning. The result of Halutz and Stern&#8217;s goading of the national religious camp is already being felt as its members make increasingly unrestrained statements regarding their unwillingness to fight for the country. <em>If the current trend is not quickly reversed, not only will the IDF itself degrade its fighting capabilities by rejecting its best soldiers and recruits. It<br \/>\nwill be transformed into a force charged not with defending Israel against its enemies, but with defending the government against its political opponents.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Continue reading<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/servlet\/Satellite?cid=1145961305988&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull\"><strong>Our World: The IDF&#8217;s Suicide Attempt<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our World: The IDF&#8217;s Suicide Attempt, by Caroline Glick Excerpts; &#8230; The IDF&#8217;s treatment of Dayan; its new recruitment guidelines and Halutz&#8217;s anti-religious rhetoric reveal a dangerous politicization of the IDF. It seems that today, with Hamas now in charge of the Palestinian Authority and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}