Aguda sent me this: … in protest of the harassment and shocking imprisonment of lomdei Torah in Eretz Yisroel .. for the protection of lomdei Torah, and for the honor of Torah to be uplifted throughout the world.
What do I do if I think that protecting the honor of the Torah requires admitting that imprisonment of those who are not responding to army letters is not really “shocking”. And if you think that it is “shocking”, then why did you set up students for this by advising them not to respond in the first place?
I don’t think all complicated terutzim answer simcha’s point: communities that don’t feel they need to do anything for the threat from the enemies, suddenly march to protect themselves from fulfilling their civil duty. As YYA seems to admit, the language is “elevated” – “Torah” means “Yiddishkeit” and even those who don’t speak this “loshon” will use it here. Similarly, “gilui arayot” does not mean sleeping with your sister, but to the horror of being exposed to non-religious girls in the same Army unit … just request only unmarried girls in the unit …
I think we understand the fears of the community, but you should also understand that the self-serving cries of Torah using non-truthful loshon is not answering the questions people have.