Internal documents distributed by the IDF’s Zionist Orthodox-controlled Chief Rabbinate and the Manpower Department to various IDF units show the IDF’s Jewish Awareness section, which was under the direct control of the rabbis, forced secular Jewish combat soldiers to have monthly “conversations” with IDF rabbis “on the subject of acquaintance with and connection to Jewish heritage, tradition and sources, strengthening the fighting spirit, mission and motivation to serve."

Report: Secular Soldiers Were Forced To Undergo Religious Brainwashing By IDF Chief Rabbinate

Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

Is the IDF a secular army representing and defending a secular multi-ethnic and multi-religious state? Or is it a Jewish army operating under halakha (Orthodox Jewish law) that represents a Jewish state with a minority non-Jewish population that are second class citizens at best?

Internal documents distributed by the IDF’s Zionist Orthodox-controlled Chief Rabbinate and the Manpower Department to various IDF units show the IDF’s Jewish Awareness section, which was under the direct control of the rabbis, forced secular Jewish combat soldiers to have monthly “conversations” with IDF rabbis “on the subject of acquaintance with and connection to Jewish heritage, tradition and sources, strengthening the fighting spirit, mission and motivation to serve,” Ha’aretz reported. Non-combat soldiers were only required to have these talks every other month.

The talks apparently centered on things like the Jewish “right” to settle and control the entire biblical Land of Israel and the need not to be merciful toward enemies along with more traditional Orthodox belief.

Married secular soldiers – and apparently even Druze soldiers and Christian soldiers – were also forced to attend two sessions per year on “family strength,” the Orthodox view of family life drawn from halakhic and other rabbinic sources. Under the orders of the IDF Chief Rabbinate, those mandatory lectures were presented by the IDF’s Orthodox rabbis or by outside rabbis approved by the IDF rabbinate’s Jewish Awareness Section.

A female combat officer described one of these “family strength” sessions to Ha’aretz.

“The main message [conveyed by the rabbi who taught the class] was that I have to give my spouse the feeling that he holds the reins in the house [in order] to keep the marriage going. According to the rabbi, that is the key to peace in the house,” the female combat soldier said.

The Jewish Awareness section was removed from the rabbis’ control earlier this week by the IDF’s chief of staff after repeated violations of IDF rules and regulations by the rabbis, including one notorious lapse in which the Jewish Identity Section’s rabbis told combat soldiers just before crossing over the boarder into Gaza that it was forbidden under halakha (Orthodox Jewish law) to show mercy to the enemy. That “teaching” was presented in way that justified indiscriminate fire against civilian areas.

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