Operation Pillar of Clouds, Gaza, November 2012
As part of austerity measures, the Ministry of Defense has recently announced a 33% cut in the compensation of civilians, who served on reserve military duty during the recent violence in Gaza.
IDF cannot address any significant threat without calling in the reserves. Men (and some women) 21-45 serve, following their general draft period.
The loss to the economy is enormous in any such draft. However, the employers are not asked to pay for the time lost, instead, the reserve drafted people are compensated through the budget of the Ministry of Defense.
Given the recent austerity measures, the Ministry of Defense decided last week to cut by 33%, retroactively, the compensation of those, who were drafted during the operation Pillar of Cloud in Gaza. It should be noted that typical Israeli working family can barely subsist on its income, and many enter debts to the banks.
Public outrage erupted.
At the end of last week, the Ministry of Defense hastily announced reversing that decision to cut the compensation of reserve draftees.
The case also documents that the general draft renders a unique power to the social contract, and failure to institute general draft, relying instead on professional army and mercenary security corporations, is the route to enslavement of the people.
There is nothing like the power of the People, and no replacement for it in any representative system... and none to blaim, but the People, when they subject themselves to abuse...
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Take away justice, then, and what are governments but great bandit bands?
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11-12-10 Where should Occupy go next? Civil Disobedience in the footsteps of Thoreau and Gandhi!http :// www.scribd.com/doc/
12-06-08 Courts and Judges as racketeering enterprises under RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) - key element in the current financial crisis
http://www.scribd.com/doc/
Secede! The US in its current form is simply unmanageable...
12-01-01 Secession - A Smart Business Move!
http://www.scribd.com/doc/
Get Up, stand up, stand up for your rights!
_____________________________
Take away justice, then, and what are governments but great bandit bands?
Saint Augustine, Civitas Dei (City of God,4.4)
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