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Israel's Army Chief Is Complicit in Jewish Terror
“An officer who sees an Israeli planning to throw a Molotov cocktail at a
Palestinian home and stands idly by cannot be an officer,” Israel
Defense Forces Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi said at a graduation ceremony
for an officers’ course at the Bahad 1 base last Wednesday. It’s no
accident that he addressed these words to new officers, for when it
comes to veteran officers, it seems promoting this message is already a
lost cause.
Honestly, I’m fed up. I’m fed up with the constant demand that we be
impressed by senior officers’ willingness to acknowledge terrorism as
terrorism and pogroms as pogroms,
at a time when the terrorism and the pogroms are hitting new heights on
their watch. I’m fed up with watching senior officers like Brig. Gen.
Avi Bluth, who commands the Judea and Samaria Division, explain that
“the army won’t stand idly by when lawbreakers enter villages, torch
property and endanger lives,” even as they are careful to dress these
“ultranationalist crimes” in a shopworn verbal flak jacket – “which even
the settlement leaders and the settlers condemn.”
Bluth devoted all of 14 Hebrew words to the current tsunami of pogroms. I counted. He devoted 60 words to the curses aimed at the Binyamin Brigade’s commander when he visited the family of a Jew killed in a terror attack near a settlement. That’s his order of priorities. And incidentally, “youths” who “don’t represent all settlers” were responsible for this behavior, too.
The army has long since ceased “standing idly by.” Its complicity is a legacy Halevi received in full from his predecessor, Aviv Kochavi. The army Halevi commands today serves as an armed security force for the lawbreakers, so that they can return home safely at the end of their pogrom.
In reality, the distinction between the army and the lawbreakers often no longer exists. On the ground, a hybrid organism of soldiers and pogromists has already evolved.
“In
briefings ... they said that if Qusra torches Esh Kadosh’s orchards,
Esh Kadosh’s response will be to torch right back. And in this
situation, it was quite clear that if the settlers are heading toward
Qusra, then we have to go with them so they won’t be stabbed or killed,”
a reserve staff sergeant who served in the army last year told Breaking
the Silence.
And last week, in a video that the Yesh Din organization filmed, we saw a man with military gear – a flak jacket, a helmet and an army rifle – vandalizing a Palestinian car in Qaryut.
If
an officer who stands idly by can’t be an officer, what about a chief
of staff? After all, the chief of staff is the one who knowingly allowed
the settlers to relocate a yeshiva within the outpost of Homesh without
a legal permit. And not only did he facilitate it, but he also ordered
the infantry company that guarded the yeshiva – which was illegal before
the move, too – to escort it and guard it in its new location.
So how is he any different than the staff sergeant whose testimony I quoted earlier? He isn’t at all.
The settlers’ representatives in politics and the media, who have once again found themselves called to rally around the flag, explained last week that the so-called “hilltop youth” are “defending themselves” when they set out to burn the property of families who never did anything to them. But this terror isn’t meant for self-defense.
Rather, it’s a political tool, and the settler leadership defends it because its goals overlap with those of the settlement enterprise as a whole. It’s “the battle for Area C” – the part of the West Bank assigned to full Israeli control under the Oslo Accords – by other means.
The settlement outposts that Halevi refuses to evacuate are commonly
called “illegal construction,” as if the whole thing were just some
boring real estate issue. But in reality, the illegal outposts are a
source of violence and theft, and the army is an integral part of them.
Protecting such outposts means employing “special security zones” that encroach on Palestinian lands. It means turning privately owned Palestinian land into closed military areas. It means movement restrictions and checkpoints. It means Palestinian herders being expelled from their lands by settlers backed by the army.
The pogromist hilltop youth aren’t seeking deterrence but ethnic cleansing – fewer Palestinians on more land. That’s what happened, for instance, in Ein Samia, where some 200 Palestinians left their homes due to daily settler terror with backing from on high. But what matters is that officers are forbidden to stand idly by.
Words are cheap. Halevi, like his predecessor, will be judged by his actions. Here is a simple test: Since 2004, the army has been providing armed escorts to the children of Al-Tawani so they can get to school without those “sweet kids” from the Havat Maon outpost beating them up. Maybe after 19 years, the army will finally do the right thing and, instead of escorting the children, simply arrest the lawbreakers. Blessed are the believers.
Avner Gvaryahu is executive director of Breaking the Silence.
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