11 Israeli soldiers abandon mission
Thu Aug 11, 2011 10:45AM GMT

Amid growing economic crisis, eleven soldiers of Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have abandoned their operational missions in protest over their financial problems, reports say.


They also said their comrades ridiculed them because they could not afford to buy certain supplies, and their commanders are oblivious to their problems, the Arutz Sheva reported.

The soldiers, from Duchifat unit, claimed that they do not receive any financial support from the army and some of them are hungry.

Analysts believe that the financial crisis gripping Israel is the result of Tel Aviv's excessive spending on military hardware as well as settlement expansion.

On Saturday, thousands of Israelis took to the streets to protest corruption, lack of jobs and opportunities and high living costs.

The protesters have also called for the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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"The chief aim of all government is to preserve the freedom of the citizen. His control over his person, his property, his movements, his business, his desires should be restrained only so far as the public welfare imperatively demands. The world is in more danger of being governed too much than too little. It is the teaching of all history that liberty can only be preserved in small areas. Local self-government is, therefore, indispensable to liberty. A centralized and distant bureaucracy is the worst of all tyranny. Taxation can justly be levied for no purpose other than to provide revenue for the support of the government. To tax one person, class or section to provide revenue for the benefit of another is none the less robbery because done under the form of law and called taxation." John W. Davis, Democratic Presidential Candidate, 1924. Davis was one of the greatest trial and appellate lawyers in US history. He also served as the US Ambassador to the UK.

Since when did the IDF form a union?

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