Between a major general and a standing rabbi: the day when responsibility ceased to be guilt as well

Rabin, Begin, Dado - all were responsible for failures and failures that they were not necessarily guilty of.

But when did guilt cease to be the complementary of taking responsibility?

There is no responsibility without guilt, contrary to the words of Ohana and now also Commissioner Saturn, for the Meron disaster. Whoever does not understand this does not deserve to be a commander

Nir Kipnis

11/04/2022

Monday, 11 April 2022, 19:18 Updated: 19:19

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In the video: The commissioner testifies at the investigation committee for the Mount Meron disaster (Photo: GPO)

The former chief of staff, Major General David Elazar, "Dado," did not last long. Less

than four years later, Yitzhak Rabin resigned as prime minister and ran for the leadership of the party in the run-up to the election, due to the dollar bill of his wife, Leah. No one promised Rabin a comeback after 15 years. At that time his resignation could have been the end of his political career.

"Took responsibility" without realizing that there is no responsibility without guilt.

Saturn in the commission of inquiry, today (Photo: Flash 90, Jonathan Zindel)

Only six years passed and the person who won the election from which Rabin retired before it was held, Menachem Begin, retired to his home.

According to the testimony of those closest to him, he could no longer bear the number of casualties in the Lebanon war.

Begin also, needless to say, did not stand trial.

He just felt responsible, that is, guilty.

Even before that, it was his defense minister, Ariel Sharon, who was removed from office.

The commission of inquiry into the massacre in the refugee camps believed that Shatila had placed the responsibility on him.

Sharon's many opponents also did not accuse him, God forbid, of taking weapons and massacring innocent people, but he was responsible for the circumstances in which the massacre took place - and was therefore held by the committee also guilty, even though his hands did not shed blood.

Ohana and Saturn in Meron, shortly before the disaster (Photo: Israel Police Spokeswoman)

It is difficult to draw the line where carrying guilt has ceased to be the complement of taking responsibility, but since then, it seems, the two sides of the same coin have become parallel lines that will never meet.

From a football coach who says something like, "I take responsibility, but do not think I'm the problem," (so where exactly is taking responsibility?), Through the former Homeland Security minister to the police commissioner, today in the commission of inquiry into the circumstances that led to the deaths of 45 innocents. Other

spokesmen

for the Israel Police explained that the police "took responsibility" for an incident for which no one wanted to take responsibility. And between us, rightly so. , Administrative failure, enforcement - there is hardly an arm that comes out clean from the road to hell that befell 45 families in Israel, but precisely because of this, on the eve of the event, no one wanted to take responsibility.

There is no arm that comes out clean from the hell that befell 45 families.

Urgent celebration in Meron, on the eve of the disaster (Photo: Walla !, Eli Ashkenazi)

So the Israeli police decided to be responsible, but not exactly, because they only "took responsibility" without even realizing that there is no responsibility without guilt, as the minister and the commissioner will later claim

. But to say "I am responsible", probably when you are in the rank of minister in charge or superintendent, means to say: I saw all the failures, I understood all the limitations - and decided that I was managing the event and hence I was responsible for anything that might go wrong. Inseparable from the first, does not deserve to be a manager, commander or supervisor.

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Taking responsibility means saying "I am guilty."

It has no other meaning.

This does not mean of course that the culprit should be punished - on the contrary, sometimes it turns out that if he had not "taken responsibility", with or without quotes, the disaster could have been worse, but responsible is also always potentially guilty, otherwise he is not responsible.

Poor uncle, not only did he fall into the trap and be forced to bear almost alone the guilt that she had many partners.

Poor all that generation that did not understand the spins, that was not able to utter even a sentence like "I am responsible but not guilty", the sentence that was Bon Ton, a moral mark in the mouths of senior police officers, generals, ministers and football coaches.

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