The Chief of Staff who failed to warn Netanyahu - instead of saying "We failed here too""

May 11, 2024   

On the moment of the IDF's massive military activity in the northern Gaza Strip: In one of the discussions that took place over the weekend, the failed Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi hurled harsh words at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to a report by Moriah Ashraf Walberg on Channel 13, Halevi said: "We are now operating once again in Jabaliya. As long as there is no political move that will create a governing entity other than Hamas in the Gaza Strip, we will have to operate again and again there and in other places to dismantle the Hamas infrastructure. It will be a Sisyphean effort." According to the report, senior IDF officials have urged the political echelon to make decisions and formulate a strategy. In addition, senior cabinet officials have warned Netanyahu in recent weeks, saying that the Israeli conduct and the fact that the government is not making decisions regarding the "day after" in Gaza "simply endangers human lives." Ariel Kahane, a commentator for Israel Hayom, responded: "The Israeli government has ordered the IDF to eliminate the Hamas regime. This also happens to be the position of an absolute majority of the public. If the IDF, under the command of Herzi Halevi, is unable to carry out the mission, then another commander should be appointed to the army. "The idea that the government will change its policy because the army does not like this policy is absurd. "Anyone with eyes in their heads understands that as long as Hamas exists, no other party will agree to enter the Strip or even talk about it, for fear that its people will take a bullet in the head. It's that simple." Hillel Biton Rosen, Channel 14's military and security correspondent, wrote: "7 months after the outbreak of the war, and once again returning to maneuver in several locations with several divisions, including in neighborhoods that the IDF used to be proud to have cleansed, it now becomes clear - 'there are terrorist infrastructures that we didn't know about.' "Instead of briefing a political echelon that this is because it does not agree that Fatah will rule the Strip, it is better to look in the mirror and say - here too we failed.".