7 January 2025
Dear Editor,
Once again, I say, “If Muslim Israelis can voluntarily join Israel’s Defence Forces and die and/or suffer horrendous wounds for their Nation of Israel, so, too, can Haredim Jews, living off most other Israelis!”
Haredim Jews traditionally refusing to defend Israel by joining the IDF are shamelessly sullying Dean William Ralph Inge’s wonderful insight of Jewish history:
“The history of the Jews also shows that oppression and persecution are far more effective in binding a nation together than community of interest and national prosperity. Increase of wealth divides rather than unites a people; but suffering shared in common binds it together with hoops of steel.”
Yours,
Howard Hutchins
Victoria, Australia