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Opinion | This is not how you build a national guard Israel today

2022-06-22T20:35:59.320Z


Prime Minister Bennett has announced that he will budget the Israeli National Guard with NIS 40 million


Outgoing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett left a lollipop when he left office this week.

Together with the Ministry of Internal Security, the police and the Border Police, they declared the "Israeli Guard."

The Israeli Guard, according to Bennett, will be a skilled and trained force that can operate in several arenas at the same time and deal with disturbances and emergency scenarios.

The dream of Bennett and the senior command of the police is that the Israeli guard will be based on the Border Police and not on the Blue Police.

The second force is the Border Police Reserve, which is to be reinforced with new and additional forces over the existing ones, including the acquisition of advanced means. The third force is civilian volunteers who are to reinforce the Border Police forces, as part of the "Persistent".

All this is happening, at the same time as alarming news is being published about an acute manpower crisis in the Israel Police.

There is a huge wave of resignations in the police, and within a month 101 police officers have resigned and the expectation is for the resignation of 1,000 police officers by the end of the year.

After the events of the "Wall Guard" and the riots in May 2021, the police should have increased significantly, but instead the police are fleeing.

Another patient who remains unanswered is the structure and the use of force in emergencies in the face of nationalist threats.

In the May 2021 riots, the problem was not just a shortage of police or Border Police personnel. The bigger problem was the use of force, when police and Border Police fighters did not use minimal force in the face of Arab rioters who burned, wounded, threw stones and killed.

They did not strive for contact, did not use minimal means to disperse demonstrations, light and material not with firearms.

In some cases, they even asked citizens to secure and guard synagogues and educational institutions to keep out the rioters.

After the riots, the police commissioner boasted that there were no Arab casualties among the rioters: "We reached a situation where in four days we eliminated an intifada with zero casualties from the other side," he said. Absurdly?

For the police not killing any of the rioters.

Until we change this way of thinking, which affects the operation and functioning in the field, no national or Israeli guard will help, millions of shekels will not help either.

Prime Minister Bennett announced that he would budget the Israeli National Guard with NIS 40 million.

It is a beautiful and necessary start, but at the moment it remains crippled and hanging in the air.

It lacks the side of changing the use of force, and it lacks the side of fixing the severe crisis in the Blue Police.

There is a huge hunger among the citizens of the country to volunteer and protect themselves and their communities.

This can be seen in the astronomical leap in gun license applications and can be seen in civilian initiatives emerging from below.

To prepare for a future war, one needs to change the thinking and activation model completely, not put a band-aid on.

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Source: israelhayom

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