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Munk Dialogue with Vivian Bercovici: Israel in crisis

The Munk Debates Podcast

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Israeli Defense Force Reservists Are Essential to the Country's National Security

In Israel, reservists are not just casual weekend warriors. These are people that are essential to the country's national security. You're starting to see senior cadres within this reservist group indicating that they feel that they could no longer accept and act on the orders of what to them would be an illegitimate government. Is there any expectation that the military quietly can exert authority over Netanyahu, over his government in terms of probably being the single most important institution in Israeli society? I'm not happy. And if they're worried about this national security implications of this, surely that becomes a break, a red line that the Netanyahu government is trips over and falls on.

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