I apologize, dear Anita, but on days like these, the fate of the people is always primarily in their hands, and not in the hands of the government. I have the good fortune to live with the people of Israel and I thank you for that, but let’s be honest, a people is a people as long as they behave like this, and if they don’t behave like this, they will not be saved by the best government in the world.
Yes, I am from the other side of the spectrum, although I voted against Bibi, I will not specify why. But I’m sure it’s not just Bibi’s fault, it’s a lot of people’s fault on all sides of the spectrum. Who is to blame for the fact that the rapid response team could not find the keys to the armory for 12 hours? Bibi? Government? Take the media – the tear-jerking hostage show they put on serves Israel’s enemies more than it does Israel. Tears, hugs, the drama of reunion and everyone will forget what happened on October 7th and it will become impossible to continue the war. What will happen to the morale of the army? What will those Orthodox who first joined the army think? Why was all this?
But if Israel loses this war, the next one will be much bloodier, our enemies clearly told us this.
So leave your hatred for Bibi, just as I forgot my hatred for Lapid, we don’t have time for this. We have to win this war, we have no choice.
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I found this passage particularly unpleasant, talking about people with a different point of view as socially backward: ‘from an entirely different social stratum. These were the kind of people who supported the Government and believed it when it called Brothers in Arms “anarchists” and “traitors”. Yet now the Brothers are their saviours, having rescued them from rocket fire and terrorist attacks.’
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Rafi Stern
5 months ago
A very partisan-political view of the situation, while the whole country pulls together to do what it can to help.
“The army was protecting Jewish settlers in the West Bank”. That is opinion masked as fact. Israel was facing a major uptick in violence in Judea-Samaria aka. the West Bank and forces were diverted there to disarm the new terrorist cells popping up in Jenin, Tul-Karem and Shekhem/Nablus. If you are anti-Jewish-presence-in Judea-and-Samaria, that is “army was protecting Jewish settlers in the West Bank”, if you believe that it is necessary or desirable for there to be a Jewish presence there, then it is “protecting Israel from Hamas, Jihad and Fatah in the West Bank”.
Even given that, that is a gross untruth to blame on this, the failure of the army to foresee and react to the Hamas invasion. If the intelligence commanders had listened to the multiple warnings and not dismissed them as “fantasies”, there would have been a perceived immediate threat from Gaza and forces would have been diverted there, and half the soldiers stationed there would not have been sent home for the holiday weekend.
The “Brothers in Arms” movement was the group that encouraged soldiers not to volunteer/report for reserve duty and in the opinion of many (still, notwithstanding their immense contribution now to the civilian effort) were one of the contributing factors to where we got to today. The issue of volunteering for reserve duty is that by law the army can call reservists for a maximum number of days per year, however certain people like pilots “volunteer” for more days in order to keep in up their training level. For weeks before the 7th October massacre, there were daily news stories about whether or not Israel still had a functioning air force or not. Iran, Hizbollah and Hamas had already publicly commented and said that the Day of Judgement was coming as the “Zionist Entity” destroyed itself from within.
To then place all the blame on Netanyahu that he “continued on his path to dividing Israeli society and weakening the army” and “the nation faced war with a government it did not trust and a Prime Minister who was only concerned with remaining in power” is a very shallow and one-sided perspective on the situation we faced. The Netanyahu government ran headlong into legislation that many people in the country believed in and voted for. The execution was appalling the backlash of the opposition elites, devastating. The country was going into a nose-dive of internal strife, but to place all the blame in one place, entrenched in the very same us-them divisive politics is to spectacularly miss the gravity of where we got, and miss the lessons that the country is now hopefully learning.
The level of volunteerism and joining together to help is indeed amazing. The voluntary sector is indeed doing amazing work. And Brothers in Arms is one of the many organizations doing great work. However to paint the picture as if they are the only players in the field, or of there being no government, just self-serving power-hungry politicians and dysfunctional government agencies, is a gross simplification and shameless politicking of the type that I hope we have left behind at 06:30 on the 7th of October.
So much of the Jewish commentary is along the same line, that the Israeli judicial reforms are anti-democratic. They are not. They are about retraining judge made law. The UK, which also lacks a written constitution, has similar risks with its Supreme Court. The EU of course is all about judge made law.
There was a time (in Common Law jurisdictions) when judicial appointments were made from within the legal profession, on the ‘tap on the shoulder basis’. While that may look like the patriarchal club in action from the outside, its opacity allowed the elevation of those with a true calling for legal judgement, and obstructed radical egos from achieving their ambitions. One of the side effects of more formal processes is that it has brought DEI considerations into play, and allowed self promoting types to succeed.
Jim Veenbaas
5 months ago
I had no idea about the extent of volunteering. Thanks for this. Don’t know a lot about internal Israeli politics either. Netanyahu seems like a sleazeball, although I suspect the author might be a tad biased.
Now that there is a cross-party unity government this article does seem terribly one-eyed. If there are failures then surely the undermining of democracy by the left ever since Netanyahu’s last win has to be weighed in the balance. One gets the impression that the “greater good” proposed by the author means his political persuasion winning out. Thankfully politicians of the left have put their personal and political animosities to one side for the time being.
Pedro the Exile
5 months ago
I found this a particularly unpleasant article.However in focusing on the difference between the people and the government it misses the larger picture which is that 7/10 was/is a seismic shift in Israeli perception and attitudes and has resulted in a clarity of vision that seemed to have been lost in the midst of the political unrest prior.Its reset the primary purpose and despite the awful tragedy,both the people and their Government will be stronger and more unified.
Last edited 5 months ago by Pedro the Exile
laurence scaduto
5 months ago
Future historians will marvel at the simultaneous and whole-sale collapse of leadership around the world. It seems as if our devotion to Neo-liberal economic theory has created a situation in which the most self-centered and immature people rise to the top.
Who knows? Maybe it’s our phones. Maybe we should rethink our attitudes about those tin-foil hats. But more importantly, kudos to the Israeli people for stepping up when they are needed!
Last edited 5 months ago by laurence scaduto
Samuel Ross
5 months ago
This mediocre author has mistaken her role from informing to convincing. Her unexceptional authorship is forgettable, haranguatory, and ultimately useless in either informing OR convincing. She needs to do something more useful, or else learn how to write an informative article that doesn’t devolve into an harangue.
Your own ‘haranguatory’ post is pretty unhelpful and certainly not as ‘useful’ as the article you criticise. I think you need to set out your complaint in more detail.
I apologize, dear Anita, but on days like these, the fate of the people is always primarily in their hands, and not in the hands of the government. I have the good fortune to live with the people of Israel and I thank you for that, but let’s be honest, a people is a people as long as they behave like this, and if they don’t behave like this, they will not be saved by the best government in the world.
Yes, I am from the other side of the spectrum, although I voted against Bibi, I will not specify why. But I’m sure it’s not just Bibi’s fault, it’s a lot of people’s fault on all sides of the spectrum. Who is to blame for the fact that the rapid response team could not find the keys to the armory for 12 hours? Bibi? Government? Take the media – the tear-jerking hostage show they put on serves Israel’s enemies more than it does Israel. Tears, hugs, the drama of reunion and everyone will forget what happened on October 7th and it will become impossible to continue the war. What will happen to the morale of the army? What will those Orthodox who first joined the army think? Why was all this?
But if Israel loses this war, the next one will be much bloodier, our enemies clearly told us this.
So leave your hatred for Bibi, just as I forgot my hatred for Lapid, we don’t have time for this. We have to win this war, we have no choice.
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100% this.
I found this passage particularly unpleasant, talking about people with a different point of view as socially backward: ‘from an entirely different social stratum. These were the kind of people who supported the Government and believed it when it called Brothers in Arms “anarchists” and “traitors”. Yet now the Brothers are their saviours, having rescued them from rocket fire and terrorist attacks.’
30 Sderot police officers killed in fighting mean nothing for her…They are not saviors, they are numbers for her
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A very partisan-political view of the situation, while the whole country pulls together to do what it can to help.
“The army was protecting Jewish settlers in the West Bank”. That is opinion masked as fact. Israel was facing a major uptick in violence in Judea-Samaria aka. the West Bank and forces were diverted there to disarm the new terrorist cells popping up in Jenin, Tul-Karem and Shekhem/Nablus. If you are anti-Jewish-presence-in Judea-and-Samaria, that is “army was protecting Jewish settlers in the West Bank”, if you believe that it is necessary or desirable for there to be a Jewish presence there, then it is “protecting Israel from Hamas, Jihad and Fatah in the West Bank”.
Even given that, that is a gross untruth to blame on this, the failure of the army to foresee and react to the Hamas invasion. If the intelligence commanders had listened to the multiple warnings and not dismissed them as “fantasies”, there would have been a perceived immediate threat from Gaza and forces would have been diverted there, and half the soldiers stationed there would not have been sent home for the holiday weekend.
The “Brothers in Arms” movement was the group that encouraged soldiers not to volunteer/report for reserve duty and in the opinion of many (still, notwithstanding their immense contribution now to the civilian effort) were one of the contributing factors to where we got to today. The issue of volunteering for reserve duty is that by law the army can call reservists for a maximum number of days per year, however certain people like pilots “volunteer” for more days in order to keep in up their training level. For weeks before the 7th October massacre, there were daily news stories about whether or not Israel still had a functioning air force or not. Iran, Hizbollah and Hamas had already publicly commented and said that the Day of Judgement was coming as the “Zionist Entity” destroyed itself from within.
To then place all the blame on Netanyahu that he “continued on his path to dividing Israeli society and weakening the army” and “the nation faced war with a government it did not trust and a Prime Minister who was only concerned with remaining in power” is a very shallow and one-sided perspective on the situation we faced. The Netanyahu government ran headlong into legislation that many people in the country believed in and voted for. The execution was appalling the backlash of the opposition elites, devastating. The country was going into a nose-dive of internal strife, but to place all the blame in one place, entrenched in the very same us-them divisive politics is to spectacularly miss the gravity of where we got, and miss the lessons that the country is now hopefully learning.
The level of volunteerism and joining together to help is indeed amazing. The voluntary sector is indeed doing amazing work. And Brothers in Arms is one of the many organizations doing great work. However to paint the picture as if they are the only players in the field, or of there being no government, just self-serving power-hungry politicians and dysfunctional government agencies, is a gross simplification and shameless politicking of the type that I hope we have left behind at 06:30 on the 7th of October.
Wow!! Great comment.
So much of the Jewish commentary is along the same line, that the Israeli judicial reforms are anti-democratic. They are not. They are about retraining judge made law. The UK, which also lacks a written constitution, has similar risks with its Supreme Court. The EU of course is all about judge made law.
Supreme Court judges not directly appointed by the legislative branch is fundamentally undemocratic. This should never be allowed to happen.
There was a time (in Common Law jurisdictions) when judicial appointments were made from within the legal profession, on the ‘tap on the shoulder basis’. While that may look like the patriarchal club in action from the outside, its opacity allowed the elevation of those with a true calling for legal judgement, and obstructed radical egos from achieving their ambitions. One of the side effects of more formal processes is that it has brought DEI considerations into play, and allowed self promoting types to succeed.
I had no idea about the extent of volunteering. Thanks for this. Don’t know a lot about internal Israeli politics either. Netanyahu seems like a sleazeball, although I suspect the author might be a tad biased.
Apparently, more than a tad.
Now that there is a cross-party unity government this article does seem terribly one-eyed. If there are failures then surely the undermining of democracy by the left ever since Netanyahu’s last win has to be weighed in the balance. One gets the impression that the “greater good” proposed by the author means his political persuasion winning out. Thankfully politicians of the left have put their personal and political animosities to one side for the time being.
I found this a particularly unpleasant article.However in focusing on the difference between the people and the government it misses the larger picture which is that 7/10 was/is a seismic shift in Israeli perception and attitudes and has resulted in a clarity of vision that seemed to have been lost in the midst of the political unrest prior.Its reset the primary purpose and despite the awful tragedy,both the people and their Government will be stronger and more unified.
Future historians will marvel at the simultaneous and whole-sale collapse of leadership around the world. It seems as if our devotion to Neo-liberal economic theory has created a situation in which the most self-centered and immature people rise to the top.
Who knows? Maybe it’s our phones. Maybe we should rethink our attitudes about those tin-foil hats.
But more importantly, kudos to the Israeli people for stepping up when they are needed!
This mediocre author has mistaken her role from informing to convincing. Her unexceptional authorship is forgettable, haranguatory, and ultimately useless in either informing OR convincing. She needs to do something more useful, or else learn how to write an informative article that doesn’t devolve into an harangue.
How so?
Your own ‘haranguatory’ post is pretty unhelpful and certainly not as ‘useful’ as the article you criticise. I think you need to set out your complaint in more detail.