Soldiers on the fire line … and salaries on the path of collapse

There is no “normal” soldier in the soldier. After each shelling round, the front that no one sees begins: slow bulldozers, inspection teams, and eyes looking at dirt from what an endless war left. In recent weeks, a martyr fell to the army while combing border areas of Israeli warships, mines, cluster ammunition and hidden partners, to remember that the end of the fire does not mean the end of the danger. The tragedy here is double: High -risk tasks are carried out in the spirit of discipline themselves, while the pockets of the elements return in the evening to unbearable burdens.

The country’s crisis has poured its full weights on the military establishment. The salaries that have been returned their actual value during the collapse, are no longer sufficient to secure the minimum housing, transportation and food, even with the increases and topical submissions that were approved. Risk allowance is not equivalent to the nature of the risk, and late compensation in the market is turned into fuel prices and food baskets that change weekly. Many military personnel travel long distances on their expense for night and day shifts, before returning to families who manage their livelihood with a small debt at the grocer or a conversion awaiting it from an expatriate relative.
In contrast to this scene, “fictional” numbers come out to publicly from pensions for senior managers in public or semi -public institutions, some of whom receive tens of thousands of dollars per month. The comparison is not for incitement, but to put the question in its place: any social contract that calls the soldiers with a complete duty under danger, and at the same time gives excessive privileges to a little that does not face in its work what Shaweesh faces a family on a border path? Justice is not only a moral slogan; It is a condition for the sustainability of security. When the soldier feels that the state is fair, a wage, protection and dignity, he goes to the field, lightering heart and hardening. And when he sees irreplaceable differences, confidence is cracked in terms of we do not see.
The army, in that, maintains what is estimated at: controlling the border with limited resources, rapid interventions in disasters, dismantling shells and trying to prevent a new catastrophe. But the ability of any security establishment to remain an effective active effective with courage alone. There are an inevitable logistics: maintenance of hardware, fuel, decent medicine, periodic training, and incentives that limit human drain and smuggling towards the external labor market. External support, with equipment or food aid, does not touch the origin of the dilemma if a clear and fair wages system is not prepared, which is paid on its dates, with a currency and an indicator that preserves the value of the work. It is noteworthy that the cost of correcting the salaries of the soldiers, compared to what is spent in other sectors and with the lease of a known waste, is not impossible. It is a political decision first. Also, the control of higher compensation in public institutions and the status of transparent ceilings for them is not a “class war”, but rather the return of the social balance to its quorum .. Whoever is connected at night on a road planted with the remnants of a war must be the first to reach the hand of the state, not the end of it. The soldiers are required to complete the task to the fullest understanding and legitimate, but to leave under a living roof that is not appropriate for their sacrifices, this is a moral default before it is a financial defect. Dignity here is not a big word; It is a pension that is sufficient at the end of the month, a medicine that is worthy of a mission, and a housing that protects a family waiting ..
What the army suffers, and still suffers from it cannot be silent more .. To what extent can these endure more, amid the tasks that are increasing day by day, in parallel with the political developments that change again behind another inside the country? Where are the promises that have been continuing for years and years, such as slogans and poems, no more. What is happening cannot be tolerated more, and the move today to fairness these has become a duty, but rather the least duty of what they offer and what they sacrifice …