This article just oozes “let me play a sad note on the world’s smallest violin” energy, so it’s worth it for that alone.

But chief among Israelis’ concerns, along with the suffering of the hostages held by Hamas, are the welfare of their husbands, fathers and sons off fighting, and sometimes dying, at the front.

Israelis realizing they can’t have their genocide and eat it too:

especially as officials have said returning the remaining 58 hostages is not the war’s top goal.

Welcome to what everyone with half a brain has been saying for the past 19 months, assholes.

“One step would be to stop funding haredi institutions altogether. To cut 100 million [shekels], or even 400 million. That’s not ethical? Or it’s undemocratic? Maybe. But so is tearing people from their lives for 100 days.”

He’s so fucking close to getting it.

In the Facebook group, wives share stories of domestic violence, traumatized children, depressed husbands and financial crises.

Last fall, a different survey by the organization, which now advocates for the conscription of haredi Israelis, found that virtually all reservists’ wives said their husbands’ service had induced emotional harm — 37% to “a very great degree.”

This unironically makes me happy. Genocide supporters shouldn’t get to live happy lives.

In an interview in November 2023, Halperin recalled that during the early days of his service, Yoni didn’t want to see his family — even when it was permitted — because, despite missing them deeply, he feared it would weaken his resolve.

Man how dedicated can you be to genocide?

“He said he was working on hardening his heart,” she said at the time. “I told him, ‘This war is for peace. You have to remember that.’”

Not that I had any sympathy for these assholes, but just in case: Eat shit, woman.

I’m not sure what we’re doing there, except for dragging our feet. We destroy some houses, we’re killing terrorists, it’s not clear to me at all.”

Wow. Just… wow.