Posted on 11/30/2023 5:35:18 AM PST by ScaniaBoy
An intelligence chief who publicly rejects the government’s characterization of a war, whose poor professional judgment led to catastrophe and who has a history of contemptuous insubordination simply cannot be trusted. Op-ed.
Immediately after the blackest day in Israeli history, a consensus formed that we must wait until after the war to investigate how Hamas was able to invade the country, slaughter 1,200 innocents and get away with 240 hostages. There’s a lot to recommend this position.
We’re at war. Now is not the time for action, not recrimination and trials for failed generals, security chiefs and politicians. Good or bad, you go to war with the army and leaders you have. People have jobs to do, and our job is to let them do theirs.
While reasonable on its face, there is a problem with delaying a reckoning. At least in some cases, it seems clear that the people whose failures enabled the Hamas attack are not capable of bringing us victory.
Case in point: Israel Defense Forces Intelligence Directorate Chief Chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva. In the weeks since Oct. 7, more and more information has come out about why Hamas was able to pull it off. All of the information points to Haliva and his close subordinates.
The Field Observers unit at Nahal Oz base suffered the greatest losses there during Hamas’s assault. The unit, comprising female soldiers, is responsible for monitoring the footage from security cameras along the Gaza border around the clock and alerting forces on the ground and in the intelligence community to anything suspicious.
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NB! See also the comments by the readers.
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Sorry, wrong address!
/SB
I don’t know if it’s deliberately treason and he should be tried on the possibility, but he let his own personal philosophy guide him in his actions, which resulted in 1500 Israeli deaths.
Definitely, he should be forced to go to the front lines.
NETANYAHU is fighting tooth and nail for his political life.
His CAMPAIGN spiel is hoping to convince Israelis (and others) that,
<><>(a) Israel knew about the Hamas attack long before it happened,
<><>(b) that they even encouraged it,
<><>(c) to be able to justify trying out all their new bombs,
<><>to get more US materiel,
<><> to launch a ground incursion to wipeout Gaza, and,
<><>(c) to force Biden to fork over billions of US tax dollars to pay for all of it.
You are correct that one cannot be certain until after a trial, but the fact that observations during several months prior to the attack were repressed (and not only junior military observers but also civilian observers) makes it hard to see this as just a big mistake.
Convinced by his subordinate’s reporting, her commander, an NCO with 30 years’ experience, canceled a family vacation because he heard Haliva would be visiting their base. He waylaid Haliva, and he and his subordinate presented her reports.
Haliva dismissed their warnings and detailed information as hot air. Hamas, he insisted, was just pretending, to make an impression on its followers. He did not communicate her report to either the head of Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) or the IDF Chief of General Staff.
Are we sure that this guy isn't part of the Obama administration, over in Israel?
I would say Bibi has to go, but I don’t know if there is anyone who wouldn’t be even worse.
MFLR.
I think you may have a point.
The Field Observers unit at Nahal Oz base suffered the greatest losses there during Hamas’s assault. The unit, comprising female soldiers, is responsible for monitoring the footage from security cameras along the Gaza border around the clock and alerting forces on the ground and in the intelligence community to anything suspicious.
Seventeen observers were killed on Oct. 7. Seven were taken hostage. One, Naama Levy, was videoed barefoot, being dragged from the trunk of a vehicle by her hair and pushed into the back seat. Her hands were zip-tied behind her back. The seat of her sweatpants was stained with blood, indicating she had been raped violently.
It is possible.
There have been strange security breaches in Israel for a long time.
We told Israel in ‘73 that troops were massing in Syria and Egypt.
We were ignored it and Israel came very close to collapse.
the Israeli ‘67 attack on USS Liberty.
That’s a damning report.
There were reports from early on that people knew in advance that Hamas was planning something & were ignored.
Haliva should be shot and others thrown in prison.
A TRAITOR in the midst of it all!
“NB! See also the comments by the readers.”
Sounds like FR.
Kinda like we have here in US...TRAITORS
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It’s starting to look like the intelligence community wanted this attack to happen.
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