JERUSALEM (VINnews) —Some 300 reservists serving in Israel’s elite cyberwarfare units have issued a letter saying they will not show up for volunteer reserve duty, after the Knesset okayed the first reading of a bill to eliminate courts’ ability to rule on the “reasonability’ of governmental decisions.
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“The Netanyahu government proved today that it is bent on crushing the State of Israel. Passing the law to cancel the reasonability clause is the first step in the transformation of the State of Israel into a corrupt, dark, and weak state,” the letter reads.
The reservists warn that “cyber capabilities that are sensitive and have the potential to be misused must not be entrusted to a criminal government that undermines the foundations of democracy.”
“Confidence in the government’s ability to direct offensive cyber activity has been deeply fractured. This is a clear and immediate danger,” the letter says.
“Therefore, we, the 300 signatories… are immediately withdrawing from our voluntary reserve service. We will not develop capabilities for a criminal regime, and we will not assist in training the future generation of cyber [warfare soldiers],” they add.
Unlike most reservists who are called up for duty with a formal order from the IDF, pilots and other special forces show up for duty more frequently and in a voluntary manner, often not during an emergency, due to the nature of their position.
The military has said that it would discipline soldiers who refuse to show up for duty when ordered to, but stressed that no action would be taken against reservists who only threaten not to show up.
Throw them in jail for failure to obey a direct order An army is not a democracy
And actually changing the courts behavior is increasing the democratic way
Then quit. !!!!!
Just do it already and pass the bill. As that say in Israel . Gam Zeh yavur. Now people are angry . Once it’s passed and the world didn’t end they will get over it . Maybe they don’t show up for a week and life moves on. Stop dragging it out and encouraging this fear momgoring. Just get this don
What stupidity, tell me one other country the has such a rule?
By not showing up to fulfill their roles, they are putting in danger not only the government, but their own families and all Israeli citizens!
then these ‘criminal reservist’ should be arrested court marshalled and if necessary jailed. It is not up to individual reservist to deniy a direct lawful order.
Morahdik the news keeps getting better remember when leftists told frum thet HAD to destroy shuls on Gaza to give it to hamas? I bet those soldiers feel silly now