besalel> The problem is that the High Court and AG stand in the way of the democratic process. in other words it is not legislation from the anti-torah camp that needs to be blocked. it supra-democratic bodies that are suppressing and quashing the will of the people.
We had this discussion recently. Modern democracies have a lot of features that make the system more stable than a lot of agitated citizens deciding by raw vote whether to go to a war or hang the other side. Read up on american system, for example. So, having parts of the system that slow down political process, that require a vast majority people to agree to change fundamentals is not “undemocratic”. It does not mean that you or I agree with everything these bodies do, or that the system does not require corrections that we can advocate for. Just, don’t call them nasty names because it will quickly escalate from there – on both sides.
> most israelis know what the solution is: allow anyone who wants to learn to learn and draft all charedim who are not learning. while many chareidi leaders will not say it out loud (perhaps in order to gain leverage), they all secretly agree that this is the solution.
You may be right. But at some point, leaders need to address reality and also address their followers who get carried away with idealistic visions. We read stories when elderly gedolim were allegedly mislead or shielded from information by a small number of people surrounding them. Imagine being surrounded by 1000s of “chasidim” who were hearing that they are am segulah and are entitled to behave any way they want and curse anyone who disagree with them – how do you talk to them about a reasonable compromise, without destroying their whole weltanschauung.