For as much as Benjamin Netanyahu might want a wider and never ending war to keep himself in power, the IDF are objecting – big time! Right, so mutiny in the ranks of the IDF. This is a subject I’ve touched on previously, where members of the IDF have refused to return to their posts, sick of there being no end in sight to the fighting in Gaza and further afield as and when Benjamin Netanyahu has directed it, armed forces regardless of what you think of them, being abused by their own leader who is making more and more war that they have to fight for no better reason than keeping his backside firmly in power.

This has led to dramatic shortages, the forced drafting of Charedi Jews in Israel who traditionally are exempted from the national service as scholars of the Torah, but matters have continued to evolve and just how much worse matters have become is something we need to talk about because with Netanyahu’s rhetoric and warmongering on one hand, he’s losing more and more soldiers to actually do it and in light of the seeming hopelessness so many of us feel watching the atrocities Israel are committing and the failure of our western leaders to do something about and take a stand against genocide, Israel may soon be incapable of fighting on as many fronts as it is.

Combined refusal to serve by existing soldiers being exacerbated by young conscientious objectors, with the death toll of IDF soldiers and one of the leading causes of that, along with rebellion in the ranks at service level, the IDF is cracking up all over the place, but you wouldn’t know it in our media, would you? Right, so the ranks of the Israeli Defense Forces are in a bit of a bad way right now and that is one reason there, conscientious objection, the refusal to serve in the IDF as is required of every citizen of Israel with some exceptions.

It’s been going on for quite a while, that clip was taken from a video posted by Israeli outlet 972 Magazines photojournalist Oren Ziv last February, such objection has been a long-running theme in Israel it doesn’t get seen enough, not every Israeli is bent on the destruction of Gaza, just unfortunately the ones in power are.

That young woman, Sophia Orr, got 20 days in prison for her objection, but as she said in that clip, it is possible to object and frankly if the choice was between carrying out genocide or getting locked up, I’m sure most of us would without hesitation choose the latter. But this is only one aspect of the problems besetting Benjamin Netanyahu and mutiny in the Israeli ranks, because the citizenry objecting to enlisting is one thing, but when those who have already enlisted are objecting too, it’s a whole other matter.

I spoke previously about IDF soldiers refusing to return to their posts after going on leave and the fact Israel were actually worsening matters on that score by recruiting mercenaries to try and fill an immediate shortfall in the IDF ranks of around 7,000 places at the end of last year, paying some more than double what the average IDF soldier gets paid to really rub salt in the wounds.