Erez Tadmor’s Blistering Attack on IDF Chief of Staff Halevi

Yom Shleeshee

Tuesday

28 Av 5783

August 15 2023

The Weird Graphic of the Day

As you know from reading OneIsrael, the country has been suffering from a months long scorching heat wave.

Nevertheless, take a look at this graphic from yesterday:

This graphic is of weather taking place yesterday over the Golan. In the midst of searing heat, the pink spot shows where a “barad storm” (sleet and hail) struck.

Lapid’s Absurdity of the Day

Yair Lapid, one of leaders of the Opposition anti-government movement, appeared at a Recruitment Station for new members of the IDF this morning and made this statement:

“Look at the young people who come here this morning to enlist – this is the real Israeli contract – this is where the IDF’s competence begins. The young people who are enlisting in the IDF today to protect our country. The evasion and refusal law that the government wants to promote has one meaning – it will be the end of the People’s Army.”

Can you believe this Orwellian statement? The very person who is encouraging the IDF refuseniks wants to blame the end of the “People’s Army” on the government.

Lapid goes on to lambaste the orthodox for promoting a conscription law for the haredim:

“My Yesh Atid Party has put on the national table a real conscription law, which says: everyone has the same rights, but everyone has the same duties. Everyone enlists in the IDF or civil service, everyone works and supports themselves.”

Everyone has the same duties?

Your humble servant heartily supports the idea that every Israeli should serve in the IDF or in national service (such as in hospitals or schools).

But this is the same ridiculous Yair Lapid who tells a different story every time he is asked about what he did in the IDF. At first, he promoted the idea that he served in an artillery unit, but research showed that he was nothing but a gossip columnist for the IDF newspaper.

The News on the Israeli Street

The war in Judea and Samaria.

Stabbing attack:

A self-identified Palestinian attempted to stab Israelis in the Shimon HaTzaddik neighborhood of Jerusalem. No Israelis were wounded; the terrorists was captured.

Shooting attacks:

2 Palestinian terrorists were killed by IDF forces in a firefight at Akbar Jericho. No Israelis were wounded.

Palestinian terrorists fired again last night at the IDF pillbox between Dotan and Harmesh.

IED, Molotov, “rock” attacks:

There were more than 3 dozen attacks yesterday along all the usual roads: the road between Ariel and Tapuach, the tunnel road from Jerusalem to Gush Etzion, and the Gush Etzion-Hevron Road, as well as virtually all of the “offshoot roads” from these roads in between.

Israel strikes in Syria, again . . .

In what has become a nightly occurrence, Israeli aircraft struck a Iranian militia depot on the outskirts of Damascus last night.

TODAY’S BLOG

Erez Tadmor’s Blistering Attack on IDF Chief of Staff Halevi

Two days ago, your humble servant included this in our daily blog:

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Quote:

“The internal threat to the army and the refusal of its high-quality servants to serve + the breach of trust that has grown – are no less dangerous than an all-out war with Iran.”

IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi

Instead of beating the bushes to encourage all to serve in the IDF and encouraging reservists to fulfill their duty, Halevi is continuing down the path of utter passivity in the face of the threat posed by the IDF refuseniks.

And to say that the refuse movement is no less dangerous than an all out ballistic missile war with Iran is beyond absurd.

Halevi is a bitter disappointment as the IDF Chief of Staff.

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Ironically, perhaps, one of your humble servant’s most respected analysts, Erez Tadmor, posted this on Facebook a few hours later in the day:

“Don’t be blinded by the headlines [praising you] in the newspapers, Gen. Halevi. In the test of history, when the fog clears and the dust settles, you Mr. Halevi will be remembered as the Chief of Staff most destructive and failed in the history of the IDF and the State of Israel.

Not only did you not judge or depose even one of the organizers and instigators [of the refusenik movement] but you surrendered to them and became the ambassador of the refuseniks who demand that the government surrender to them.

To the extent that there is damage to the competence of certain units, the responsibility for this does not rest on the shoulders of the government that is not ready to submit to threats and a fascist attempt by a handful of military personnel to subdue an elected government. The responsibility for this rests on the shoulders of the refusers . . . and also on your shoulders, Gen. Halevi.

[You] changed by 180 degrees the zero tolerance policy that had been practiced in the IDF towards refusers since time immemorial.  [You] are the Chief of Staff who decided that the IDF would become the only army in the world that does not deal with the rebels with discipline, but instead summons them to stress-releasing workshops and discussion circles. And now that it turns out, how surprising, that this is not a winning strategy, you are trying to shift the responsibility to the government.”

No description of Gen. Halevi could be more correct. Every word is true.

It turns out that Yair Netanyahu, the son of PM Netanyahu, saw Tadmor’s post and shared it with his friends.

This sharing immediately brought an avalanche of absurd criticism of Yair Netanyahu from the leftist Israeli media. The headlines all read in unison “Yair Netanyahu Harshly Criticizes IDF Chief of Staff”–leading Yair, unfortunately (and probably under pressure from his father) to delete his share shortly thereafter.

The “sharing” also brought out a massive defense of Halevi from all sides ranging from that of Defense Minister Galant to Opposition leaders Lapid, Gantz, Liberman, and Sa’ar.

Let your humble servant repeat what I said before. Halevi is an utter failure, and the defense of Israel is in incompetent hands. 

Kolakevod to Tadmor for stating the obvious.