The IDF has attack capabilities that are supposed to achieve a desired result, without causing a general flare-up. Therefore, it is time to increase risks, in order to flourish Tehran's aggressive thoughts.
There are several reasons why it would have been beneficial for Israel to increase its proactive activities against the Iranian nuclear program, assuming it has a range of capabilities. The first reason is that whether you want to achieve the partial destruction of Iran's nuclear capability or whether you want to achieve a credible threat of walking on the brink - action in a high media profile is required. If we want to push the Iranians to an agreement with meaningful content, only a credible threat that will act on both the Iranians and the European powers can achieve the desired result.
The IDF has offensive capabilities that are not in the range of all or nothing; these capabilities are supposed to achieve a desired result, without causing a total flare-up. Perhaps the main reason to move from deliberations to action is charging deterrence batteries. Hezbollah in the lineup, it will be destructive - even more significant deterrence is needed than before.
The more risks we take, especially against Iran, the greater the deterrence. Since the Iranian attack more than two years ago at the Abkaik oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, Israel has received a warning about capabilities whose answer is mainly deterrence. In other words, Israel does not have sufficient answers in defense against cruise missiles, skimmers and UAVs. This arm needs to be hit before it strikes. Or take the ideas of the attack out of Iranian thinking.
The Americans are reinforcing the issue of opening the consulate in Jerusalem as a means of keeping Israel's head low. Israel has promised a "no surprises" policy. The way to dismantle this mine of Lapid and Bennett is something similar to the Defense Minister's declaration of some Palestinian human rights organizations as terrorist organizations. That being said, we reported - but you, the Americans, did not perceive or understand. The same is true of possible activities against the Iranian nuclear program. We promised there would be no surprise in the event of a "Big Bang" action; But there are very many other activities that cannot be updated about. There is no point in reassuring a president when he is asleep.
Israel's problem is that its security strategy is similar to that of the Corona: repression.
If we talk against the right and remain silent about the plague or about the Iranian nuclear program, then it is as if the threat has been removed.
One of the esteemed commentators said that it was discovered that the Netanyahu era was over, the government changed, and the sky did not fall.
To paraphrase a line by David Avidan, the sky is slowly falling.
Making noise on an existential issue is essential, it is definitely desirable.
On the table in the Kirya
The discourse on military mediation pensions is interpreted in the military as toxic and one that hurts morale. But the chief of staff and the defense minister must dive deep into it.
I do not remember such a storm of emotions surrounding a controversial issue related to the IDF. The talk now, mainly by the chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Ram Ben Barak, about finding a solution to the soldiers' salaries - is only distracting from the real problem
. The IDF feels attacked. This is not only the issue of pensions, but also the affair of Barel Shmueli's death on the Gaza border, and all the public outcry is connected to a sense of siege. Last week.
For the sake of clarification, the calculations made by Dr. Michael Sarel together with the members of his financial team - are accurate and reliable. To put the issue into proportions, the usual calculation is that it is about a billion and a half shekels a year. Over the years it is a very significant amount.
The people who engage in the Ecclesiastical Forum on the subject themselves do dozens of days of reserve service a year. These are people from the fighting line, from the point of view, that the IDF is at a glance. Here and there I have heard definitions about what is being done about pensions that I do not want to repeat. The level of emotion is high. Senior officers express real pain in their reactions.
Mediation pensions refer to the same amounts paid over decades of service that were not. At the time, they cited as an example the pension that Nachman Shai received since the end of his service as IDF Spokesman nearly 30 years ago. This is the Ecclesiastical Forum for obtaining information on the subject.
The IDF began to feel the fire of public criticism of the issue about ten years ago, following the social protest of 2011. One sketch of "A Wonderful Land" led to the departure of officers from the military ranks. Those permanent servants did not exist here.
Despite legislation being passed, the problem has not been resolved. In any case, those who need to address this issue in front of the public are the Minister of Defense and the Chief of Staff.
The rank of professional officer should not be exposed to public attacks.
Was his blood allowed or abandoned?
A new book returns to the squares of 1995 and to label the settlers as hostile, and sharpens the question of whether security around Rabin was not negligent until there was
a very interesting interview with Haim Asa and Kalman Geyer, held a year ago. . This does not prevent him from saying immediately afterwards that he went out to the opening ceremony of a new interchange in Kfar Shmaryahu, to get a closer look at the area. There he was very upset to see that the security around Prime Minister Rabin is very sloppy, and almost non-existent.
Geir, who was very close to Rabin, talked to him about the security problem, and Rabin in a typical movement with his hand waved it. I heard a similar story from another Rabin associate, a man of trust. Rabin went to Haifa to meet with an ultra-Orthodox rebbe who was probably around 85. The reasons for the meeting were of course political, but the fact that the first thing the ultra-Orthodox old man said to Rabin was that he was defenseless; that security around him was not serious.
Kalman Geyer's theory can be questioned as to the reason for the growth of conspiracy theories, and can also be linked to the massive development of the theory of incitement that led to the assassination. But the most surprising thing is that there is a tremendous comeback to the issue of incitement when the goal is clear: to drop the murder case on Benjamin Netanyahu.
There is a public question, of Lapid and of President Herzog, and of many commentators - where does the violent discourse that occupies public space come from. The reason for the rise in recent weeks is that the signal is given for repeated accusations against Netanyahu regarding the assassination of Rabin. Again, an unprecedented event in the history of democracies, that political bodies continue to try to dig gold from the assassination of a leader that occurred years ago.
The grandson Yonatan Ben-Artzi began with this, but at the same time the former head of the Mossad, Shabtai Shavit, in an article in Maariv imposed indirect responsibility on Netanyahu - when he again waved at two well-known events with Netanyahu's participation.
Hezi Kalu - the former head of the "non-Arab" wing of the former Shin Bet - published in great detail in the two years before the assassination, for example. The Oslo Accords, entitled: "Violate the Advice of Our Enemies." Even from a distance the years they made me feel badly, "writes like that." One of them showed the Rabin open faucet from which come out rivers of blood ".
Regarding comet, he was an intelligence agent and was then head of the Mossad, one may ask - if you're smart today about warnings about the murder, And the man responsible for the incitement, why did you not warn in real time? I guess it's much more convenient to say 'incitement' than to explain the helplessness in the prime minister's security. The truth is that the left and the leaders of the Oslo process did not expect an effective and legitimate opposition,As Netanyahu then led.
In an analysis submitted at the time by the late Prof. Ehud Shprintsak, which was recently revealed by Channel 20 reporter Akiva Bigman, he divided the settlers into three: those with terrorist potential;
extremists;
And pragmatists.
Rabin and his men in advance marked parts of the settlers as a hostile population.
The demonstrations in which the Likud leaders took part made it possible, among other things, to express the feelings of opposition of sections of the public.
To release pressure.
Between one demonstration and another at that time there were long time-outs, as Hezi points out.
The joining of Knesset members on the right to fuel the "incitement" storm from 26 years ago, indicates an orchestrated campaign.
"He has not yet come down from that balcony," said a six-year-old MK when Rabin was assassinated.
Edith Silman "attacked".
Between "his blood was allowed" (the name of such a book) and "abandoned", the testimonies of those closest to Rabin point to the second possibility.
An atmosphere of incitement.
Hezi Kalu // Photo: Contact,
Gold mark in politics
Amichai Shikli is not announced as a retiree because members of the right, among other things, understand that he is acting out of pure conscience
. Because his act as an opponent of Prime Minister Bennett's move is honest, morally credible and perceived as an act of pure conscience. It turns out that there is still such a thing, there is still a gold standard in politics. It is not a bar honesty, because a bar honesty is sometimes crooked. This is an essential, deep honesty. And since the members of the coalition, and especially the members of the right, also recognize this - they are not doing anything.
They also tried not to blatantly attack Shikli, until Shirley Pinto arrived this week and released a virus against him. Her attack did not impress anyone, and so the accompanying voices in various opinion pieces evaporated.
Amichai Shikli's opposition is as real as Bennett's move to form the current government was crooked. The public is able to forget a lot of promises. Bennett's last zigzag was one too many. Politically and media-wise, Bennett is the most innovative Teflon in the country's history since Ehud Barak.
No legal flaw clung to Barak, despite Jeffrey, despite Tselim, despite Madhat Yosef and millions of dollars from the Wexner Foundation. Only one thing Barak lost under the spotlight: the public's trust. The public does not approach it. And that's probably the fate of Bennett's startup, too.
This teflon also protects the Kara Knight.
She defends Idit Silman's mistakes.
But Shikli is ripe.
He's telling the truth.
It is quite probable that if Ayelet Shaked was a senior member of the Likud today, she would say similar things to what Shikli wrote in the middle of the week in "Israel Today."
She would identify the deep setbacks that are not measured in centimeters or square kilometers nor in the number of building permits, but are the disintegration of the Zionist backbone.
Cowardice is still there
From Ben-Gurion to J Street - The Silence and the Fake Balance Always Characterized Liberal Bodies in America
David Ben-Gurion, who turned 48 this week, slapped Weizmann in the face for betraying a large group of Jewish leaders. He also found in America "Jewish cowardice, which I have never seen before." This is what Shabtai Tevet wrote in his monumental biography "Ish Riv".
As today, there have been many incidents of antisemitic bullying in Boston neighborhoods in the 1940s. "All the newspapers, all the Jewish organizations, tried to silence this matter, so that it would not be remembered or visited anywhere," Ben-Gurion wrote to Paula.
Jewish "cowardice" was considered by him to be the main reason that American Jewry did not raise an outcry during the Holocaust.
It is interesting to see the manifestations of this cowardice in the form of members of the Democratic Congress who are being led to pilgrimage to Israel by the J Street organization.
Members of Congress, most notably Rosa Delauro, the wife of political adviser Stanley Greenberg, said they would give "equal time" for talks with Israelis and Palestinians as they toured the territories to see the settlers' actions.
It is cowardice that lies beneath the arrogance and sinfulness of the State of Israel.
The Palestinians are the best thing that has happened to liberal Judaism, which does not dare to appear as a Jew in the political arena.