https://www.972mag.com/israeli-army-refusal-crisis-gaza-war/

Menuchin also attributes significant weight to economic factors, but offers an additional explanation: “Israelis don’t want to feel like suckers, and they’re now reaching a point where they feel they’re being exploited. They see others getting exemptions, and they wager that if something happens to them, no one will support them or their families. There’s a feeling of abandonment: they see the families of the hostages crowdfunding just to survive. The bottom line is that the state isn’t really there, and that’s becoming clear to more and more Israelis.

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        And they’ll be the first to tell us we’re being a bunch of entitled brats for wanting like healthcare or whatever then spend a hojillion dollars on an Orphan-Seeker 5000 missile and cry when they can’t afford two of them after the bill comes due for the first one.