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Comment author: Username 29 April 2014 12:18:35PM *  0 points [-]

the Chareidim don't actually believe in their defenses

Yes.

What I wrote was a steelman of their positions, and must be taken as such. They themselves do not have such sophisticated mental models of the world. The answer to why they hate the IDF and the state of Israel is simply one of tribal affiliation. <<Insert Robbers Cave experiment reference here>>

[Edit: Also see point 3 in iarwain1's linked comment. It explains the hareidi attitude to all this.]