A week back Micha Kurz told me that American Jews are not aware of the real tension in Israel/Palestine, the looming war between secular Israel and the religious settler movement. John Mearsheimer has said as much, too. So has Michael Walzer. A friend, citing this piece in Haaretz, says, battalion against battalion–the Israeli army has been infiltrated by settler
rabbis, and fear of a mutiny is now dictating extraordinary precautions:
Soldiers in the ultra-Orthodox battalion of the Nahal infantry brigade claim that they were strip-searched on Monday upon entrance to a battalion ceremony.
The commanders searched the soldiers fearing they would protest settlement evacuations as soldiers from the Kfir Brigade did recently.
