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2022-06-16T22:16:07.859Z


Had Gantz believed that the government had a chance of survival, he would have waited with the decision to act on the election of the chief of staff.


Defense Minister Bnei Gantz debated quite a bit before deciding to elect the next chief of staff. He knew that the move would provoke criticism from all sides. They would claim that he was trying to snatch it. .

Ganz, by nature, is a man of compromise, not of controversy.

His initial tendency was to wait with the appointment for the summer, coming of the Tishrei holidays.

Kochavi wanted the appointment to be further delayed, until after the holidays.

Thus, he believed, there would be a minimum of time for two chiefs of staff to serve in the IDF: the one who carries the ranks and responsibilities, and the one to whom the eyes are set.

Ganz's decision to act nonetheless already shows what he thinks of the government's chances of survival.

Had he believed she had (and had) shortness of breath, he would have waited with the appointment for a few more months.

Realizing that the tide had fallen, he decided to appoint already.

It was not a snatch he was looking for, but rather stability.

In front of Ganz's eyes was Motti Cohen's precedent.

In December 2018, he was appointed deputy commissioner, a position he held for two years, until he retired from receiving his permanent appointment.

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Security bodies need tenure.

order.

Reason.

They must not work according to the political chaos.

That was true of the police, and it is twice as true of the IDF.

The incumbent chief of staff understood this. Although he did not like the idea, but as someone whose first half of his term was marked by multiple election campaigns and a lack of budget, it was clear to him that the alternative to appointing now might be inability to appoint later. This is secondary to the favor of the military, which must be stable.

Ganz intends to have a quick process.

He knows the candidates well, and will not be surprised by what they say.

In any case, one of them - Joel Strick - is a straw candidate.

It is not clear who put him on the list, and on what basis.

After all, Ganz himself was furious a decade ago when it was decided to appoint Yoav Galant as chief of staff;

He is now ostensibly considering appointing Strick, a worthy but unassuming officer at the necessary No. 2 station.

If the door has already been opened for those who did not serve as lieutenants, one is asked to wonder why the possibility of appointing Amikam Nurkin, who until recently served as Air Force commander, was not considered.

Although Gantz belongs to a generation that still has the time of Dan Halutz's chief of staff, the times and centrality of the Air Force have changed since the Second Lebanon War. And the management and decision-making processes in it.

Ganz is debating between Herzli Halevi, the current deputy, and his predecessor, Eyal Zamir.

In recent weeks, his entourage has struggled to dispel hints that this is an open battle, but the reality is different: Halevy has a clear advantage, and if he is not appointed, it will be a shocking surprise.

Zamir is expected to receive a lot of compliments (and rightly so), but to end his service and retire.

Both Zamir and Halevi suffered quite a bit of injustice this week.

The best tweeters on social media were quick to catch up with them on a variety of unrelated matters, which is a shame.

Halevy was accused of being quick to appoint him because he was a leftist - a strange tag for someone who grew up to be a revisionist father, with a see-through dome (by definition), and who proved during his not-so-short career that his loyalty is only to the people and state.

The defense establishment, for those who have forgotten, does not need Yes-Manim;

She needs big, independent and brave heads of thought and action.

Zamir was close to Benjamin Netanyahu, of whom Zamir was previously his military secretary.

It is no secret that Netanyahu greatly appreciates Zamir.

He wanted to appoint him to the position already in the previous round, where Kochavi was finally selected.

But the current preoccupation with Netanyahu and his preferences is ridiculous, and mainly expresses a pabulistic tendency: he has no status in appointing the next chief of staff, and his opinion is important only if Gantz decides to consult him as others who previously served as defense ministers. Great; he survived the role of secretary general precisely because he was a professional and decent officer, who was careful not to mix and match.

Ganz is expected to hold a round of talks with the three.

Each of them was asked to present to him his plans and thoughts, in case he was appointed.

He will then consult with defense ministers and former chiefs of staff. If necessary, he will sit with the candidates again before making a decision. The decision itself is expected within two weeks, after which Ganz intends to bring it immediately to the government for approval. , Who has not yet had a new head appointed in place of Judge Eliezer Goldberg, who passed away this year.

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At the time of writing, the stern warning about the danger of Israelis being harmed in Istanbul has not yet been removed.

Even without intimately knowing the intelligence that led to the publication of the warning, it can be assumed that it deals with a cell that is in the city in real time, and is looking for available Israeli targets to hit them.

This is the kind of case where you should take your warnings seriously.

Such warnings are often issued based on general information or intentions, or scholarly assessments.

This time it seems to be solid intelligence, which can not be mistaken: behind the Iranian intention to kill Israelis in revenge is a cell that has already been recruited, with faces and weapons.

What the defense establishment is trying to achieve right now is time.

Keep as many Israelis as possible away from the source of the danger as soon as possible, and at the same time try to close the circle - together with the Turkish security forces - on the members of the cell and those who sent them.

Catch them, or make them retreat after realizing they have been exposed.

Two similar events have taken place in recent weeks on two corners of the world, one in Thailand and Indonesia, and the other on the line between Venezuela, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina.

In both, Iranians, who are known to belong to the Revolutionary Guards, were arrested after local authorities received "information from foreign intelligence sources" about their intention to carry out terrorist acts.

This accumulation of events teaches something about the extent of the danger, its geographical dispersion and the Iranian determination to act.

It obliges the defense establishment to stretch organs in defense: while the Mossad brings in the intelligence (and operates according to foreign publications in Iran itself), the GSS is busy defending Israelis and Jews around the world.

Past experience shows that somewhere, sometime, the Iranians may succeed.

This was the case a decade ago, when the terrorist attack in Burgas summed up several years of a global effort by Iran and Hezbollah to avenge the assassination of Imad Mourniyeh.

The danger today is the same, and perhaps even greater;

Anyone who ignores it is acting with dangerous irresponsibility. 

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Source: israelhayom

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