Privilege Protesting Its Loss in Israel During War for Survival – HotAir

Since the murderous and barbaric October 7 invasion by Hamas, Israel has been on a war footing. The Israel Defense Force (IDF) went into action immediately, even as reserves were being called up in unprecedented numbers. They had to fill out the ranks of what had been, for many years, a virtual ‘peacetime’ army, made up primarily of new recruits fulfilling their mandatory service requirement.

The Israeli military has summoned roughly 360,000 reservists to join the fight against Hamas — marking one of its largest mobilizations in history and upending lives in Israel and around the world.

The mobilization calls for roughly 4 percent of Israel’s 9.8 million population to take up arms against the Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip, with Israelis leaving their regular jobs to join the military operation. Families were split, while Israelis abroad for the Jewish holidays…