Reservists reject PM’s shouted accusations they are harming national security

After recordings were aired on television networks of Prime Minister Netanyahu screaming about the danger posed by reservists’ threat to refuse to show up for duty, a group of former special forces soldiers rejects the premier’s outburst.

Netanyahu was heard raging at the prospect of soldiers refusing to serve due to his government’s efforts to overhaul the judiciary.

“I can’t imagine anything more serious, organizing a mass effort to break the law… It’s inconceivable… This harms the body of the state, national security.”

The special forces alumni respond: “He understands that he, and only he, is dismantling the country and the defense establishment. Don’t talk to us about ‘state security’ when you are rushing toward a Russian- or Iranian-style dictatorship.”

A separate group of alumni of the Intelligence Branch say Netanyahu’s recordings “show he understands the damage to security as a result of government actions. Responsibility for state security is in his hands.”

The large Brothers in Arms protest group of reservists says Netanyahu “is personally destroying national security and relations with the US… He should immediately stop legislation that is tearing the nation apart and face the fact that an army of the people can exist only in a democracy.”