Who controls the army of the occupying power? So who controls the course of the war? It is well known that the occupying power is a state of migration, and it has failed over the decades to integrate the diaspora in the best way. This explains the different attitudes of Jews themselves to their culture.
The ultra-Orthodox see the culture of the state as empty because it is not charged with their Torah and religious commandments, while secularists who hold and boast of European culture view the Haredim as backward.
Knowing that the establishment of the occupation state would not have existed without these secularists. The Zionist project is a secular project rebelling against religion that originally sought to liberate Jews from domination and persecution in Europe by creating their own national home.
However, this “secular Zionist” project needed religious myths drawn from Jewish religious books to establish ownership of the land in order to settle it.
The relationship between religion and the occupying power was established on the eve of its proclamation, within the “status quo” agreement, which included preserving the status of the Jewish religion and its teachings in the nascent state.
Ensure that religious people support the partition resolution and present a unified position to the Jewish population of Palestine. However, this agreement did not address the issue of military service for religious people because the state was secular and dominated by the Ashkenazim of Europe and they constituted the majority.
The Zionist leadership at the time exempted ultra-Orthodox youth from military service by Ben-Gurion, because yeshiva students served the state by studying their Torah. Ben-Gurion believed that the state would evolve so that religion would be neutralized, in order to preserve the secularism of the army.
With the rise of Likud in 1977, religious people refused to serve in the army for the same reason as they learned the so-called Torah in their schools. However, in 1998, public pressure increased to recruit this group, which numbered 30,000.
The government remained in a tug-of-war on this issue until new developments appeared on these ultra-Orthodox, most notably the population increase, most of whom no longer refused to serve in the army.
Hebrew reports have shown that the military religious establishment began to dominate the army’s morale education division, as religious discourse permeated this division and their ministry was considered to be God’s service, they said.
Thus, religious Zionism began to expand to include this important part of the state. The nucleus of which before the establishment of the state was gangs that included the Ashkenazim of Europe.
Officers were deployed in the army wearing a “skullcap”, which is called a kippah or kibbeh, indicating that the wearer is religious and belongs to “religious Zionism” and according to their Talmudic beliefs, “cover your head so that the wrath of heaven does not fall above you.”
Netanyahu’s government has relied from its inception on the ultra-Orthodox parties in particular.
Today, in its war on Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu on October 25 invokes the so-called prophecy of “Isaiah” to continue the war of extermination on the Gaza Strip when he says, “You must remember what the Amaleks did to you,” and this is what is stated in the first book of Samuel: “Go and fight the Amalekites, destroy them completely and all that they have, do not pity them, kill all men, women, children and infants, kill their oxen, sheep, camels and donkeys, and fight them until they perish.”
Indeed, this is what happened, as the army is implementing this recommendation and even adding to it the fascism and hatred of their rabbis. Rabbi Vanes Friedman rejects the labeling of war ethics as Western, calling it “biblical values” or the “Jewish way.” He said the only way to fight a moral war was the Jewish way: “Destroy their holy places and kill their men, women, children and livestock.”
At the beginning of the war on Gaza, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox volunteers volunteered to fight, even though the conscription law does not oblige them to serve in the military because they devote their lives to religious schools to learn their Torah.
Israel used their rabbis on the frontlines to motivate the soldiers and urge them to kill and take revenge on the Palestinians. Hence, religious Zionism, which relies on myths and legends, mobilizes the brains of soldiers and irritates their feelings to kill the Palestinian people with the blessing of their corrupt god “Jehovah”, whom they once curse and anoint whenever necessary.