The supreme responsibility of the commander of the air force is for the competence of the force.
In simple words - that his pilots and planes will be ready to carry out his missions anytime and anywhere.
The letter sent yesterday by the commander of the Air Force, General Tomer Bar, to the reservists of the force is a warning note.
Not for them, for all of us.
The Commander of the Air Force in an unusual letter "Israel Hayom" exposure
Barr does not say this explicitly, but this message screams from his words.
When he says that his people are the "defenders of the country, precious, valuable, responsible people", who "sacrificed and continue to sacrifice their time, their family, even their lives", he puts himself against those who call them anarchists, and worse - terrorists.
His words in this context are clear and clear, when he clarifies: "I will not lend a hand to drawing your image unfairly."
Commander of the Air Force Major General Tomer Bar, photo: Yossi Zeliger
"The most important battle": hundreds of reservists set up an outpost near the Knesset // Photo: Yoni Rikner
Barr understands very well what the Israeli government refuses to understand - that the legal revolution endangers our common foundations here.
our very existence.
You can mock the air force pilots as much as you want and claim that they are "just another vote on the ballot" (as quite a few tweeters do on Twitter).
The truth is different: the Air Force is the insurance certificate of the State of Israel.
Without it there is no insurance, and no country.
And without pilots there is no air force.
Therefore, a pilot may be another vote on the ballot, but he is not another soldier in the army.
Many can be tankmen or gunners, only a few can be pilots.
And if they leave (and there are also those who recommend that they do), they will not have a replacement.
Air Force pilots, photo: IDF spokesman
The Air Force relies on its reserve formation.
This is the military DNA. The reservists do +50 reserve days a year, sometimes more. They are always ready for a jump, which can take them deep and far. These are the best of our people, without admonition. They are ready, as their commander said, to die for the country, but they have Conscience, and they have an opinion. And as they were taught from the pilot course, they fight to voice their opinion - in the squadron and on the street.
They have been killed twice in the last few days.
The first time, when we claimed that they were working against the state and called them names.
The second time, when Minister Smotrich proposed to delete the village of Hvara.
The reserve pilots - the immediate arm for any attack, anywhere, sometimes in the heart of a civilian population - understood the message very well: someone might demand that they commit war crimes in the name of the state.
Liked the post calling for the village to be deleted and then retracted it.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
The combination of the two things brought many of them to the edge.
Bar hears the voices and understands where this is going.
In his letter, he asked the reservists not to break the dishes, but he knows very well that the problem is not with them.
Only the government can solve the crisis of confidence that has arisen now.
Only she can prevent the cracks from becoming a fracture that will be impossible for his sister.
If in Jerusalem they think they have time, they are wrong;
The reserve pilots warn them that in the next war Levin and Rothman are invited to refuel and take off to attack Beirut and Gaza.
It is possible to conduct a long philosophical discussion if it is appropriate to conduct it in a democratic country, but it is a fruitless discussion.
The crisis is here, and it is deep and unprecedented and more threatening and dangerous than ever.
And just as it is the role of the head of the Defense Ministry to warn the government of the danger of war, the commander of the Air Force is now warning of a danger at home that threatens us all. Jerusalem should listen to him, before it is too late.
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