Those who are heartbroken to see how the IDF is sliding down public trust, can follow some revelations right from the last few weeks and understand the source of the puncture that takes the air out of the army.
This is the article by three Central Command generals in the press;
This is the submarine affair, which stems from the struggle of frustrated chiefs of staff against the former prime minister; these are the ugly words of former deputy chief of staff and current Knesset member Yair Golan.
Dr. Yehuda Shalem referred me to an article by Eliezer Livneh written in 1948, in which he made a distinction between the "figure of the commander" and the figure of "the security activist." "What is required of the commander? , Restraint and self-restraint; A relinquishment of popularity and 'success', except that it is the fruit of military success. Direct treatment of the soldier, without class, party and sectarian appeal; Personal responsibility for the task and willingness to draw personal conclusions from failure. "
The highlight of Izenkot's interview, apart from his political ideas, is the return to Alor Azaria and the attack on the political echelon. He speaks of Azaria as if it were an Entebbe operation of his career.
He has nothing to say about the generals who choose to attack civilians, residents of Judea and Samaria, while backing Yair Golan.
He chooses to descend on a soldier with the rank of sergeant.
He backs former Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, who has lost control of his attacks.
Azaria's supporters may have made him a symbol, but even if he is not a symbol for female soldiers that the IDF cultivates, he is probably a symbol of the loss of the unmediated treatment of the soldier, "without class, party and sectarian appeal."
There is an alienation between the senior commander and the ordinary soldiers, as was revealed once again in the case of the death of Bar-El Shmueli.
And as for personal responsibility, it is easy for the former chief of staff to roll over responsibility to the political echelon - after all, he rebuked the cabinet ministers when they put him on the default of incendiary balloons and fires in the western Negev for nearly two years.
While Izenkot is rolling responsibility for the political echelon and the three generals are campaigning against the settlers, former Southern Command general Herzli Halevi is rolling responsibility for the residents of the western Negev in front of missiles and tunnels.
"The resilience of the residents is the best response to terrorism," he said.
A senior official will let us know that on the way to the war in the north, that the forces will not pass through Wadi Ara.
All these signs indicate a degenerate and defeatist military top, which is not ready to take a security mission and deal with it to the end.
Instead, we have a General Staff of security activists, as Birna defined it 74 years ago.
Some of functionaries security of these retired generals and chief of staff interviewed, has been carried out "penetration into the US market" within the framework of business technology security their success. Can you believe they cut off American interests as "fitness silence, restraint and self-restraint" them and so on?
To a large extent, the current government It is the result of efforts by the security and legal establishment. As mentioned, the government's supply is at least one default a week.
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