[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA:

So Olmert team doesn't know its backside from its elbow.

And pretty much every reporter who covered the farce yesterday when PM
Olmert came out for a hudna with Hamas (hudna = we won't stop Hamas from
smuggling and preparing to kill us as long as they don't shoot - yet) just
after the Security Cabinet decided that Israel insists on considerably more
than a hudna pointed this out.

But not to fear.

These folks may be clueless how to protect the Jewish State - but they are
pros when it comes to protecting their regime.

And so this morning, instead of the radio waves full of coverage of the
Olmert hudna - going a full news cycle with various MKs and even ministers
in the ruling coalition possibly even threatening the coalition if the hudna
isn't dropped - DM Barak lobs a story about yeshiva student draft deferments
that everyone can talk about.

Transparent cheap trick?

Sure.

But when the folks in the media want the regime to remain in power in the
hopes that it will ultimately withdraw (or at least stay in power so the
devil himself (Netanyahu) doesn't return to power) even a cheap trick is
acceptable.]

Barak refuses to exempt students new haredi yeshivot from army
JPost.com Staff , THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 6, 2008
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Defense Minister Ehud Barak has announced that thousands of haredi yeshiva
students will no longer be exempt from army service, it was reported on
Thursday morning.

In a nearly unprecedented move, Barak refused to approve the exemption of 61
new yeshivot that have applied for inclusion in the state agreement that
full-time yeshiva students needn't serve in the army.

Every year, some 50,000 yeshiva students are excused from army duty under
the agreement, which was originally instituted by the country's first prime
minister, David Ben-Gurion. It is the defense minister's responsibility to
decide which yeshivot to include.