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"- Hvorfor tillot IDF-sjef Halevi at IDF utførte krigsforbrytelser mot palestinerne"
"- Hvorfor tillot IDF-sjef Halevi at IDF utførte krigsforbrytelser mot palestinerne"
HELE innlegget i Haaretz 24. januar 2025 nederst under Kilde.
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Jan Marton Jensen
HELE innlegget i Haaretz 24. januar 2025
Yaakov Godo
Jan 24, 2005
Why Did Halevi Let the Israeli Army Commit War Crimes Against the Palestinians?
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| A Palestinian child walks in the rain amidst building rubble in Bureij in the central Gaza Strip on Thursday.Credit: AFP/Eyad Baba |
IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi's resignation announcement leaves a somewhat sour taste. An important state official is about to leave his position and disappear into the unknown.
Was he a good chief of staff? Was his performance in the course of his brief term competent and up to expectations? Was he in control of the army he was in charge of? Was he in control of the army's combatant branch? Was he aware of the manipulations wielded by Benjamin Netanyahu and his government members on the General Staff and on the Israeli public?
Command, in my understanding, begins with control and supervision from the top. Here lies the first obstacle: total lack of control of the goings-on in the West Bank. The army in the West Bank, beginning with the division commander and down to several brigade commanders, has turned into loyal militias of the settlement movement, utterly betraying its duty as an occupying force, which is to protect the civilian Palestinian population there.
The army forces in the West Bank have become collaborators with the Jewish terrorists throughout the region. They are partners to abusing the Palestinians, to depriving shepherd communities of water, to preventing Palestinian farmers from harvesting their olives, and to legitimizing pogroms in Palestinian villages. Brigade commanders safeguarded pilgrimages to Joseph's Tomb and even took part in them as the settlers' guests, severely disrupting the Palestinians' lives in the area. Did the chief of staff know about the blatant violations of the law committed by the army under his command, or were his eyes blind to all this?
After the appalling October 7 massacre, in which my son Tom was killed in his home in Kibbutz Kissufim – didn't the chief of staff see Netanyahu's cynical manipulation of the army and of all Israelis, declaring a war of revenge intended to keep him in power as long as it continues? Why didn't the chief of staff bear down to return all the hostages right away, even at the price of releasing terrorists and avoiding war?
IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi in the Gaza Strip, in January.
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| IDF Chief of Staff Herzl Halevi in the Gaza Strip, in January.Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit |
Why did he fall in line with the government's bizarre decisions to flatten the Gaza Strip and kill tens of thousands of civilians, women and children? Why did he agree to let the army bring rabbis into the combatant units, and agree to go along with the brainwashing that this was a religious war, a war of revival, turning the army into a body that commits war crimes and crimes against humanity? Why did he keep silent in the face of loosening military discipline, allowing civilians into war zones and leading to a soldiers' deaths? Why did he enable the attempt to whitewash the investigating of the incident in which Ze'ev Ehrlich and the soldier Gur Kehati were killed?
Granted, after the October 7 shock, the chief of staff and the army came to their senses, fought and led Israel to significant military achievements. And yet, many questions are waiting for answers. Some of the questions will never be answered by those responsible, so the call to set up a state inquiry commission must be shouted out from every stage and in every forum.
Netanyahu must take responsibility and resign forthwith, together with the incompetent ministers making up his criminal government. And we, members of liberal civil society and the protest movements, must be united in our demand to return all the hostages, while at the same time keeping our eyes on the ball – the regime coup is in process and our supreme commitment, along with returning the hostages, is to prevent the justice minister and his gang to continue abusing our Israel.
The writer is the father of Tom Godo, who was killed in Hamas' attack on Kibbutz Kissufim on October 2023.
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