The Jerusalem Post April 14, 2025 Eyal Zamir's decision to discharge IAF reservists who call for end to Gaza war is rash — letting them off the hook...
The decision gives the message that the IDF and its reservists are forbidden from taking any position on political policies. Historically, if there’s any institution that has remained outside of Israel’s very volatile political and social divisiveness, it’s been the military.
With enemy countries at or near Israel’s borders intent on its destruction, Jerusalem simply can’t afford dissension in the ranks of the army.
However, the acrimonious debate over the government’s judicial reform plans in 2022 and 2023 flooded over into the previously off-limits realm when a small number of reservists, most notably from the air force, protested the legislation.
As the Post’s Yonah Jeremy Bob reported last week, former IDF chief Lieutenant General (res.) Herzi Halevi and former defense minister Yoav Gallant were generally sympathetic to those IDF reservists who protested the government’s judicial reform policy – as long as they showed up when called to serve.
— letting them 
in the ranks of the army. 
