One of the reasons Netanyahu replaced Defense Minister Ya’alon was his support for General Yair Golan’s egregious comparison of developments in Israel to Nazism.
In 2006, IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Yair Golan said it was “intolerable” that Israeli soldiers place Palestinian civilians in harm’s way instead of themselves: “In the presence of civilians we take risks upon ourselves, and rightly so. It’s unacceptable that in the name of preventing risk we would decide that now we are going to mow down an apartment building. You would kill women, children, those involved. It’s intolerable”.
This is exactly what happened for years in Israel’s southern belt: Jewish lives were put at risk so as to not harm Palestinian Arabs.
It is the same Yair Golan who compared Israel to Nazi Germany on Holocaust Day: “It is scary to see horrifying developments that took place in Europe begin to unfold here,” he said. He was backed by the outgoing Defense Minister Bogie Ya’alon to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s dismay.
What is this general talking about? Israeli society is the most moral in the industrialized world.
Yair Golan is not the first representative of Israel’s security echelon who compared Israel to the Third Reich.
Yuval Diskin, the former chief of Israel’s Shin Bet Security Services, agreed with Yeshayahu Leibowitz’s depiction of Israelis as “Judeo-Nazis”.
The late Avraham Bendar Shalom, another former head of Shin Bet, compared the “Israeli occupation” to the Nazi Germans.
And what about the former head of military intelligence Shlomo Gazit, who likened crocheted kippot worn by the National Religious Jews to Nazi insignia?
IDF commanders such as Nitzan Alon compared nationalist Jews to Hamas terrorists. Alon also said that right-wing militancy in Judea and Samaria is “one of the causes of Palestinian terror,” blaming the victim by implying Jewish responsibility in terror attacks.
From Ehud Barak to Meir Dagan, you cannot count the number of former generals and leftists who implied a comparison between Israel and South Africa’s Apartheid, the most powerful ideological weapon of BDS, the global boycott movement.
And the chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces, Gadi Eisenkot, in a lecture to high school students recently warned that “the IDF cannot speak in slogans such as ‘if someone comes to kill you, arise to kill them first’” and said “I don’t want a soldier to empty a (rifle) magazine on a 13 year-old girl with scissors”. What is the effect of Eisenkot’s statement on an already anti-Semithic global public opinion, which daily charges Israel of a “disproportionate” response during the Third Intifada?
All these generals’ speeches follow the same rotten pattern, which goes from preemptive surrender to the Arabs to de facto giving them excuses for their horrible attacks against the Jewish population.
Shame on these Israeli generals, who are looking for global headlines and are consciously selling their Jewish brethen and soldiers to get a new virginity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9E1X6NybE
Keli-A Said:
sorry, i could not send my son to silversteins army who are intent on saving the lives of those who teach their child that jews are sons of apes and pigs moreso than their own soldiers. I dont mind Silverstein’s children and his family dying for his “principles” but not mine. Only an army which kills the enemy with the least casualties to the soldiers is worth supporting… I dont care about the enemy civilians and their filthy spawn… a million of them I would be happy to sacrifice to save my son…. that is how I would arrive at the decision to turn gaza into cinders before a soldier enters.. thats my principles.
Before jews make aliya and join the Idf they should be warned that it is run by leftists who are willing to sacrifice their children to save the lives of those who teach their children that jews are sons of apes and pigs….. a warning disclosure more important than that on a cigarette package. I cannot imagine being commanded by a yair golan who weeps for the enemy and cajoles jewish soldiers to consider them… he would be an existential danger to any soldier.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-commander-calls-on-troops-to-fight-blasphemous-gazans/
Leftist Israeli criticism of Col Winter:
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2014/08/10/idf-col-ofer-winters-holy-war-against-latter-day-philistines/
IDF Col. Ofer Winter’s Holy War Against Latter-Day Philistines
Compare leftist politicized Senior officers who promote each other like with our supreme court and a real Jewish IDF Commander who cares about his soldiers over the enemy and made winning a supreme and Holy value…..
“At the beginning of the Gaza campaign the Jerusalem Channel posted a prayer alert concerning an infantry brigade commander who was not ashamed to call his troops to prayer. His name is Col. Ofer Winter, a Givati Brigade commander, and we called for intercessory prayer support (http://jerusalemchannel.tv/israelis-engage-spiritual-warfare-going-battle/) on his behalf because of loud criticisms by the politically correct detractors.
But now, here is a wonderful answer to our prayers: a “divine miracle” protected the soldiers under Winter’s command who are fighting in the Gaza Strip, according to a report quoted in The Times of Israel.
The Givati Brigade commander made claims of divine protection in an interview with the ultra-Orthodox weekly Mishpacha [“Family”] Earlier, he had met with criticism for rallying his troops with religious messages.
Winter claimed he had never seen such a miraculous occurrence previously in his military career: a predawn raid had been delayed, forcing his soldiers to move in the light of the rising sun, but suddenly a heavy fog descended from out of nowhere to conceal their movements until their objective was achieved.
“Suddenly a cloud protected us,” Col. Winter said, making reference to the “clouds of glory” that protected the Israelites as they wandered in the desert. Only when the soldiers were in a secure position did the fog dissipate.
“It really was a fulfillment of the verse ‘For the Lord your God is the one who goes with you to give you victory,’” Winter said, quoting Deuteronomy 31:8.
This is the same Orthodox Jewish commander, as Israeli troops prepared for the initial ground incursion, who had composed a Biblical-style letter to his subordinate officers. His letter was reminiscent of the spirit of [King] David approximately 3,000 years ago:
Sounds like words of wisdom!
However, the politically correct hounds were unhappy with the rhetoric of this heroic officer. Warning of “a growing phenomenon of religious terminology entering the military… an extremely dangerous trend,” the executive director of an Israeli organization promoting religious freedom labeled the letter ”outrageous” and accused Col. Winter of turning the IDF into a “religious militia.”
Nevertheless, all warfare involves the spiritual realities. Therefore please continue to pray for Col. Winter to find favour with God and with men and that many will be influenced by his courageous stand worldwide.
We had prayed that YHVH Tzevaot –”Yehovah of Armies” (one of the most frequently used names of God in the Hebrew Bible) would encourage him and grant him more revelation in His ways. This news is certainly an answer to our prayers.
Winter lauded the importance of yeshiva students studying Torah as beneficial for the war effort. Interestingly, ultra-Orthodox rabbis have called off summer vacation in their yeshivas in solidarity with the soldiers fighting in Gaza!
Continue to pray like David who came against his enemy “in the name of YHVH of Armies, God of the Arraying of Israel, whom you have defied!”, who knew deep within himself that “the battle is the LORD’s!” (Joshua 5:14; Judges 11:11, 14-24; I Samuel 17:45, 47).
Intercessors, also pray Col. Winter’s verse of praise, Deuteronomy 31: 8, The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.
“Glory Clouds” Photo Taken on Another Occasion Near Jerusalem by CBN Senior Reporter George Thomas (used with permission)
These are the kind of jews that make me want to throw up…. there is no problem with Jewish terrorism…. the problem is muslim terrorism……jews like this always have to find a way to give equanimity…… but things arent equal…. jews rarely kill muslims in terrorist acts… by even dicussing this BS PC canard one is giving credence to the nazifyiers…… giving credence to the Yaalon fairy tale of jewish terrorism…… the problem is the muslim abuse and terrorism of jews…. I have no problem with jewish terrorism so why is it even being discussed?
Like I said, everything Yaalon did was instructed and rubber stamped by BB…. those who like to pretend that Yaalon was a loose gun acting on his own should think again.
this article hits the nail on the head and points the finger at the real inciters of the murders of jews who are daily avoiding the justice they deserve.
all these “generals” need to be purged from the IDF for spreading libels against the state and the Jews. the BDS movement is their creation, their invention… they float the lies that the jew defamers and killers quote when abusing and killing jews. they are a despicable set of low life filth facilitating anti semitic abuse of jew by muslims in the jewish homeland.
they are the ones who should be “vigorously questioned” by shin bet and placed in administrative detention. they are the nazis, the fascists who revel in torturing and incarcerating real zionists and nationalists. I hope Liberman uses the administrative detention to erase the double standard and begin the incarceration of the anti semites in the Jewish homeland.