By Steven Plaut.
Excellent article and excellent argument.
To wit:
"The secularist Left has been prancing about and peacocking its grand
moral stand in favor of military service for yeshiva students, preaching
about the high morality of national service and universal conscription
for the entire population (although never proposing expanding it to
include Arabs). Service is patriotic, it is part of basic citizenship,
it is the duty of all Israelis, so they insist in the usual leftist herd
unison."
"There is one itsy-bitsy problem in all this."
"It turns out that the
very same secular Leftists who are so proud of themselves for demanding
universal conscription and military service for the ultra-Orthodox are
PRECISELY the same people who have been running the campaign on behalf
of Natan Blanc. He is a 20-year-old make-pretend conscientious objector
who has refused to serve in the Israeli military for political reasons
and is now the national poster boy for the Left and especially for Haaretz, the Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew."