The joy of parts of the left-wing academic elite precisely over the defeat of a US congressman supporting Israel to a BDS-supporting rival, signaling a dangerous mood

• Amir Hashem in a statement after his release from detention

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  Joshua Joseph

It was a family event of the Jewish type. Not happy, but not a terrible disaster either. People come, and this event brought quite a few academics from the Hebrew University and from more distant universities. 

Amidst the warm sadness and family contact, one group that found solace stood out; A friend who arrived there said she was amazed by the joy of those academics who spoke secretly about the defeat of longtime U.S. Congressman Elliott Engel to his rival Jamal Bowman.

I don't think that until Engel's defeat there were many who knew him in Israel or knew about his positions, but now everyone knows that he was a pillar of firm support for the State of Israel on Capitol Hill. A New York congressman defeated by so-called "progressive" African-American BDS supporters. The boycott and sanctions organization was led by Omar Barghouti, who stated the great purpose of destroying Israel.

The same friend says that under the circumstances that she encountered the same group of inmates, professors and lecturers with privileges in Israeli society, she felt anxious and shocked by the pleasure of talking about the defeat of Engel. It was hard for her to fall asleep. 

The experiences she recounts as well as the stories of the retired senior officers evoke the memory of the events that occurred 80 years ago. This was the week France fell (June 22) and its leaders surrendered to Germany. The father of that friend then attended a community workers' meeting in Detroit. Many of those present at the assembly were communists or friends. They clung to the party line and supported the Soviet-Nazi agreement signed in August 1939.

At the time of the meeting, news of France's surrender was widespread and many of those present - including Jews - expressed unabashedly joyous joy. The father who saw the Stalinist USSR closely did not forget the incident. The US was at the height of separatism and Britain remained lonely in the campaign against Hitler. The father served later in the war in the OSS in Europe, and was after the war in connection with the defense and later the institution.

The mood of those people of the left-wing academic elite is dangerous; Is it the lust of power, the "Israeli yearning for death" that Arya Fall talked about in his book, or simply Nasim Taleb's favorite category: that intellectual-but-idiot. 

broken wings 

The fact that the people chose a rule for themselves does not interest many of the retired senior officer. For them, the ranks are high above any public official, however senior

Whoever experiences or hears about the mood of another elite group, the retired senior officer, especially the Air Force veterans, receives a shock of a different kind. While the same academy at the family event is nauseating - the retired senior officer conveys heavy feelings of threat. The messages sent by Brigadier General (Res.) Amir Hashish,

Who said that "the state is full of fuel vapors and if the arrest ignited the fuel vapors - then it was worth it," along with what I hear about other members of the duke, pointing to real danger. Talk about a cold civil war or a conceptual civil war for a long time. But the consensus was that the rule of the people chosen by the people would be decisive. Since the March 2020 elections, there have been several events that indicate that this is not the case. 

Some of Ehud Barak's friends and minds seek to turn the conceptual civil war into a process of overthrowing power by violent, violent means. They completely ignore the fact that the people elected a Knesset and the same Knesset formed a legitimate government, even in accordance with the annoying and unnecessary debate in the High Court. 

Some can be called - and not ironically - "the princes." They come from the valley. Some were born to founders. These put great hope and far-reaching expectations on their shoulders. As fighter pilots, they fulfilled expectations to the fullest and beyond. The difference between them and the "princes" of the Likud is in the degree of humility. In Likud, there were "princes" in the context of the revisionist movement, but never claimed a bill for Israeli society and the state. Never patronized the people, or the law, despite their failure as politicians.

For the princes of the valley, mounted on the silver wings, something loosened and rusted in the soul. Suddenly, it turns out that some of them were just - and that's a lot - young people who showed unusual flying skills and once or twice in their lives their route intersected with the dramatic history of the State of Israel. Suddenly it turns out that a big personality is not hiding behind the myth. A reserve lieutenant colonel who is heavily involved in IDF research and the processes the command goes through simply told me: "Anyone who uses his military rank to participate in the political struggle is a disgrace to me." 

I remember what I heard from late Defense Minister Moshe Arnes about six months before he died: "The Air Force is the strongest establishment in the country." What it means? More than the government. More than the judicial system. More than the institution. More than the Histadrut and even Ran Erez. The government may decide to develop and purchase a particular aircraft, but if it does not fit the Air Force (and the US Defense establishment) then the aircraft has gone, and someone from the United States will already make the new aircraft that the Air Force very much wants.

Some of those who made up this strong establishment are descending from 50,000 feet to a ventral landing on the hot, hard asphalt of public life in Israel. Then, the inner expressions of some of them sound more extreme and appalling than any known Khanistic expression of recent decades.

Political Army Correct 

The amount of resources, energy, and controversy surrounding the service of a Girl Patrol cruiser - and this is even before the price may be required - is disproportionate to the desire to mark a "feminist" 

Would Emmanuel Moreno have enlisted in the special unit if there were maids there? The answer is - probably not. It is not just a bar of effort that there may be some fighting women who can stand it. It also has some special features and abilities that go beyond the overall excellence of the fighters.

IDF should not win war against sexual harassment nor fight for women's integration // Photo: Yehuda Ben Ya'ath

On the face of it, the rational arguments against servicing girls as a General Staff Patrol sound too convincing for this to pass. But once it comes to the Supreme Court hearing, the social and military damage is beginning to build up and there's no telling how it will turn out. There are almost no arguments in favor, and the first section against this is the pervasive approach of petitioners' recruits to the High Court against the IDF and the Chief of Staff. The hearing of the High Court, in cooperation with past unit commanders, has already interfered with the chief of staff's commanding authority. A petition to the High Court passes a secret unit to the political count. That's a big failure.

What are the reasons for this?

A. Introducing girls to a special unit is controversial to say the least; In doing so, the civil society in Israel has entered its controversy straight into the heart of the IDF's Operational Unit 1. The IDF for a public polemic is damaging for a four-woman tank crew cycle picture?

B. "It will end with a hanging rope," said Maj. Gen. Amiram Levin, one of the unit's commanders in the past. Just as the IDF justified itself in tankistism by not serving on the front but only as teams within Israel - so the issue is valid for a thousand counters in relation to women in a special unit that does a lot of activity beyond the lines. The IDF has prisoners. The fear of command and political leadership from kidnapping and captivity is a deterrent. In part, because the kidnapping of fighters has become a strategic weapon in the hands of the enemy. The people of Israel have not been held captive by individual soldiers, and their release deals have strategically compromised Israel's security. I guess that's what Levin meant. A woman holding a terrorist organization - doesn't sound good. Israeli society is conservative, family-oriented. The American company, which has renounced the family, is watching alienation of some female soldiers who were taken prisoner in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In the past, the Palmach fighters were in the distant past. As soon as the business started getting serious, it was decided to take them out of the front, except for a few. 

The last event that a single fighter might be captured by a terrorist organization was the same clandestine operation in Khan Yunis where a lieutenant-colonel officer was killed. Bad scenarios following the capture of a fighting woman, only now told Yoaz Handel and Trooper's troops that being ministers could no longer serve in their unit that sometimes operates in enemy territory.

third. The logistical and organizational expenses to prepare bases for absorbing combatants in a particular unit are enormous. And all for what? To mark Vi on a feminist principle.

D. The special units should not be involved in public debates. it's bad. The prime example is the Holy War against "religion." The good of the IDF is not the focus of the detention fighters, but the harm to it. The intention is to create a negative, "religious ultra-Orthodox" image for entire units, which could deter secular people who would be recruited under other conditions. To make it possible for soldiers of a certain background to be deterred from serving them. 

God. The most negative aspect of this episode is the so-called virtue signaling. In Hebrew: demonstrating artificial morality for the sake of politics or other. Some of the special unit commanders, it was reported, expressed support for recruiting girls for the unit. It's a waste of potential, they say. The impression is that they are in a preparatory course for citizenship. They want to demonstrate how feminist they are, while the people of Israel do not want them to be feminists but do what they know how to do. 

The IDF should not win the war against sexual harassment and not the struggle for the integration of women, but in wars, period. We can already see in our minds how the IDF establishes the administration of integration of girls in the special units. The unit commanders will have to spend energy and bureaucratic effort to act in front of the administration - everything such a unit commander should not be concerned about or think about. A person who remembers the IDF bureaucracy in the past is trying to penetrate into his "special unit", saying that this alone justifies the recruitment of girls to the special units.

Reverse, Mayor, Reverse

The neutralization of New York police, in the face of fear of everything smelling of opposition to the current protest movement, will take the city back and hit its spine - the middle class

After World War II, Ben-Gurion defined in his exact view that Jews could no longer exist in totalitarian states. This is a situation that is beginning to emerge in New York and throughout the United States. A credible and serious columnist in the New York Post has accused Mayor de Blasio this week of helping to transform New York into an uninhabitable environment. The fulcrum for the collapse of the city and the civilization that allows life there She is neutralizing the police, fear has fallen on public figures in the city and no one dares to go against the policy dictated by the BLM (Important Black Lives Matter) movement. 

The current round has something different than before. For about three decades, until Rudy Giuliani's rise, there was a steady rise in crime in the city. Giuliani, who served as mayor from 1994 to 2001, revolutionized the trend and succeeded in making New York a safe place to live. Bloomberg continued the trend until radical left-wing de Blasio came in. De Blasio collaborates with a revolutionary movement that leads to the destruction of the cosmopolitan metropolis, which was the anchor of American culture. 

The destruction of small shops and businesses is deliberate. The tiny bourgeois, middle class - not middle class - are cast in the role of the Kulaks (peasant class). BLM teaches us a lesson in economics: The middle pillar of capitalism is the middle class of small business owners, shop owners, independent entrepreneurs. The giants of techno and industry can be shared by powerful means in the regime of anti-American socialist hegemony, they can be co-opted. The liquidation of small businesses will deplete the city. Her fate would be the failure of Detroit, considered the future city in the 1960s, and today its population is about a third of what it was 50 years ago.