Ultraorthodoxe Parteien verlassen israelische Regierung

In den vergangenen Tagen haben sich die Führer ultraorhtodoxer Parteien in Israel entschieden, die Regierungskoalition zu verlassen. Ob nur sechs Monate vor Neuwahlen in Israel dieser Schritt noch große Wirkung haben wird, steht dabei in Frage.

Ebenenso stellt sich die Frage, mit wem sie zukünftig regieren wollen, denn die Opposition, deren Chancen für einen Wahlsieg im Herbst  laut Umfragen gut stehen, wird ihnen kaum entgegenkommen, wenn darum geht, Ausnahmen bei der Rekrutierung von Soldaten zu machen.

Die Times of Israel berichtet:

For many years, and perhaps for as long as anyone can remember, Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community has not found itself stuck in a situation quite like this. The expiration of their historic blanket exemption from IDF service, coupled with the government’s failure to advance a new draft exemption law, has trapped the Haredi public in a tangle from which they do not know how to escape.

Everyone is racking their brains over the crisis: the great rabbis, the politicians, and the people on the street. This is especially true for the young yeshiva students who, now lacking legal cover, face the threat of arrest every day as draft evaders. This remains true even if the military police are operating in low gear on the issue and are inherently deterred by the prospect of confronting an ultra-Orthodox deserter.

This entanglement spawns new ideas and maneuvers every day — some logical, some born of hysteria and emotion, and others consisting merely of empty threats that lead nowhere.

The pot has been boiling for a long time, and on Tuesday the lid finally blew off: Rabbi Dov Lando decided it was time to dissolve the Knesset and instructed his political faction to initiate a new game.

“We have no confidence in the prime minister; we do not feel like his partners. Elections are needed as soon as possible,” the rabbi wrote on a piece of paper, making a “We are no longer committed to Netanyahu. There is no more talk of a bloc. It no longer exists,” Rabbi Lando stressed yesterday in his letter. We shall see. piece of history. The elections, currently slated by law for October 27, will apparently be moved up by about month and a half, to early- or mid-September. (...)

“We are no longer committed to Netanyahu. There is no more talk of a bloc. It no longer exists,” Rabbi Lando stressed yesterday in his letter. We shall see. (...)

All the center-left parties, every last one of them, are flying the flag of an equal sharing of the burden and drafting the ultra-Orthodox into the army. These parties are not prepared to give up on this during wartime, when combat troops on the ground are collapsing under the burden. The rhetoric will only become more extreme as the elections approach.

Avigdor Liberman is demanding the enlistment of every 18-year-old candidate for military service, with no exceptions, no deferrals, and no other sophistry. Naftali Bennett is also sharpening such messages, which he did not insist upon in the past. So, too, of course, is his partner, Yair Lapid. It is hard to believe that they would reverse their position if elected by a public expecting to see the ultra-Orthodox at the military induction center.

The ultra-Orthodox themselves face a dilemma within a dilemma here. If their leadership promises future cooperation with Liberman, Lapid, or Labor-Meretz (The Democrats) leader Yair Golan, their parties will lose many seats in the coming elections to the right-wing factions in the coalition.