Defense Minister Yoav Gallant slams renewed threats by reservists to refuse to show up for duty over the government’s plans to advance the judicial overhaul.
“We must not allow anyone to use the IDF as a tool in political campaigns or as part of inflammatory statements by anonymous people. The calls for refusal and the threats to stop volunteering undermine the basic values of the IDF as the people’s army, and endanger its competence,” says Gallant at a cadets graduation ceremony at the IDF’s officers school in southern Israel.
“Anyone who calls for refusal is not acting as part of a legitimate protest, by calling he is harming the most important thing we have, the security of the State of Israel,” he says.
“We must all, and especially the elected officials, coalition and opposition alike, denounce and condemn the phenomenon of refusal. It is our duty as a society that desires life, to keep the IDF above and outside of any dispute, we have no other army. The IDF belongs to all of us,” Gallant adds.
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