Israel Hayom commentator Ariel Kahana writes in a weekend column that Haredi draft refusal, anarchist protests, and political inaction under Prime Minister Netanyahu are dismantling the state from within, urging the right to treat Haredi draft evasion as seriously as left-wing refusenik protests.
Israel Hayom senior commentator Ariel Kahana published a sharply-worded weekend column titled 'Eliminate the Exile, or the Exile Will Eliminate You' — a warning that Haredi military draft refusal, road blockades, and political paralysis under Prime Minister Netanyahu amount to anarchy and the internal dismantling of the state. Kahana draws a direct parallel between Haredi draft evasion, which has drawn support from Shas leaders Aryeh Deri, Moshe Gafni, and Yaakov Goldknopf, and the 2023 'refusenik' protests by the Kaplan and Brothers in Arms movements — arguing that the right cannot condemn one form of refusal while legitimizing the other. He criticizes Netanyahu's long-standing approach of deferring hard decisions, citing a 2010 meeting in which the prime minister reportedly dismissed warnings about Bedouin land encroachment by saying 'the hi-tech industry will wash it all away.' The column appears on the Israel Hayom website and was shared via Kahana's the source.
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