Why is it so strange to see academics free to express their feelings. Wasn't there a nomineee for the Israel Prize in the mid-90's who called IDF soldiers Judeo-Nazis? He refused the honor, though, in turn, saving his honor. Other than that, the Old Man's agenda was to push the Religiously Observant sector of the population into a ghetto, away from the IDF, away from any semblance of public life. So it was until Secular Political Zionism lost out to Post-Zionism among in struggle for ideas in most universities, except for Bar-Ilan. It didn't work. By the time the Army was lookin' for motivation among the youth, it came from the National-Religious youth who still had that spark of Zionism. The Religious Zionist definition of Eretz Yisrael was not political, and it differs from the Secular Political Zionists. So Melemed and friends must be censured, of course while . . .