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JERUSALEM/ISTANBUL  An Israeli reserve soldier warned Saturday that the government’s war strategy in Gaza will “crush” army soldiers amid the exemption of ultra-Orthodox Jews from military service. The Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is “helpless and weak before the ultra-Orthodox rabbis and politicians in Israel,” soldier Dan Oron said in statements carried by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. He said the vast majority of ultra-Orthodox youth are exempted from military service, which “increases