A group of 44 reserve officers and soldiers from Israeli combat units have sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in which they expressed their support for his policies and their willingness to serve in the territories.
The letter was written as a response to another letter sent to the prime minister last week in which 33 reserve officers and soldiers from combat units accused the government of dragging the country into an unjustified war.
“It’s not that we want to serve so much in the territories,” one of the signatories to this week’s letter, Eitan Lassry, told Israel Radio.
It was “important to show support for the government at this time,” said Lassry, who does his reserve duty in the paratroops.
He said the writers of the previous letter had cynically used their positions in the military to express political views against the government.
While acknowledging that most of the signatories to the latest letter came from the right-wing camp, Lassry maintained that their letter was “apolitical.”
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