Last Wednesday, Israel's president told the U.S. Congress that "Israel is a country that prides itself on its vibrant democracy, the protection of minorities, human rights and civil liberties, as determined by its parliament – the Knesset, and as upheld, among other things, by a strong Supreme Court and an independent judiciary."
The next day, the former head of the Shin Bet arrives and in a radio interview announces that he supports refusal to stop the legislation "in every way" and accuses the prime minister, as is the habit of retired heads of the defense establishment, of harming security. When such a person makes such an extreme statement, he says that the regime and the government are illegitimate. In other words, he says that the president of Israel stands and lies to the world by saying that Israel is a democratic state. In fact, it is Nadav Argaman and his former friends in the defense establishment who threaten democracy based on their security titles.
President Herzog: "Refusal - off limits" // Photo: Avi Kanner, Sound: Uri Buzaglo
On Friday, even in contradiction to reality and to the statements of every objective and unincited observer, the people of Israel are once again presented with a letter from objectors among the air fighters. In other words, Israel this weekend is democratic; On Monday, after the passage of the law to reduce reasonableness, it will cease to be democratic. This is the method of warfare according to Lenin's revolutionary communist doctrine: it is either democracy or dictatorship. The strategy is one of polarization.
The 1,142 signatories (as many pages as in the novel "Days of Cyclag"), assuming there are real people behind the data, raise their hands on democracy. They must know that their act threatens the center of democratic life in Israel – the parliament, the Knesset. Isn't it understandable to any reasonable person that the government cannot succumb to this kind of militaristic blackmail?
In the name of their military role in defending the people and the state, they carry out a procedure of sorts for arresting suspects: "Stop! Or I shoot." Therefore, the first step of the prime minister and the government with its coalition majority to dismantle this private army, the Palmach in version 0.2, is to pass the Reduction of the Cause of Reasonableness Law without delay. After that, the leadership will face a challenge of how to deal with the objectors in practice.
Nadav Argaman. He warned Netanyahu, as was the custom of his predecessors, photo: Gideon Markowitz
Over the past few months, the reservist refuseniks have succeeded in humiliating the honor of the Air Force, the beloved and admired force, to the core. 50 years ago, the Air Force recorded its first no-show, especially on the fateful first day of the Yom Kippur War. Today there are those among the retired air fighters who want to warn the people of Israel in advance that in the next war challenge, the IAF will prefer the tradition of default and will again register a no-show.
For 75 years, since the establishment of the state, the various systems in the country have been brainwashing citizens with the oath of "never again." What did you mean, Reboysei?! Which is an empty password? That it depends on the fact that if I don't like the composition of the government, then the defense establishment won't stand up for the people? Israel is not the United States, which wages its wars in exotic countries such as Afghanistan or Vietnam or Iraq or Ukraine through a gimal side; Israel is waging its wars over the fences, defeating an Iranian and Islamist and jihadist enemy.
The system protects the very home, the family. So please stop conducting psychological warfare operations on the citizens of your country, and as the song goes: Maybe you will go down there?!
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