Quoting from Chananya Weissman’s recent newsletter (where he includes various videos of the Shmini Atzeres events):
More heroism by those abandoned to Hamas on October 7
Yes, they were abandoned, and yes, it was deliberate. If you can’t accept this because the enormity of the evil is too much for you, or you invested too much in supporting the Erev Rav and their institutions to admit you were conned, that’s your problem, and you’re easy prey. Their influencers will be happy to provide absurd alternate realities to help you cope and keep you compliant.
In addition, you take their bait and make a brouhaha about yeshiva students avoiding the army, because obviously they’re the real problem. That’s right; direct your pent up anger and outrage at them, because more yeshiva students in the army that was absent on October 7 would have prevented the “intelligence failure” and resulting massacre, and we need more yeshiva students to get their legs blown off in Gaza along with everyone else. It’s only fair.
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There may be more nuance required to answer the question at other times, but to ask this “question” now, of all things?!