"The messages themselves are repeated, sometimes in the name of two pilots, and sometimes in the name of the old naval warriors, and sometimes in the name of others. These messages were not written in the name of our heroic soldiers, but rather written by a handful of scum, run by associations funded from the outside, their only goal is to overthrow the right -wing government."
With these words, Netanyahu received the petitions of the protest against the continuation of the Gaza war, calling for a prisoner exchange deal, and accused of continuing the war to serve his political goals and ignore Israel's security interests.
The number of signatories has reached 120,000, including three former Mossad leaders, two former naval commanders, thousands of reserve officers and soldiers in umbrellas, pedestrians, aviation, cyber intelligence unit 8200, former ambassadors and university professors.
On the other hand, former Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Dan Halutz, stated that "Netanyahu is an enemy and must be arrested," and others accused Eyal Zamir, the Chief of Staff of the current army, that he was "just a trumpet of Netanyahu", against the background of his decision to investigate the reserve soldiers signed on the petitions, and pledged to separate them from service to maintain discipline within the military establishment.
Here we will not analyze the reasons for the signing of these petitions, and their implications for the presence of cracks that are more deep within the Israeli military establishment, but we will dive behind the roots of the crisis between Netanyahu and the army generals, which in fact reflect deeper differences about the identity and future of the state, which are differences dating back to before the establishment of Israel, and each period is manifested in the form of a new crisis.
Since the demise of the last Jewish kingdom about two thousand years ago, the Jewish religious thought prevailed in a concept that awaits the manifestations of divine destiny at the end of time in order to return from exile without a human act.
By the nineteenth century, and within the repercussions of the French Revolution in 1789, the concepts of citizenship and equality before the law spread, and the countries no longer view their nationals primarily by considering their religion, so the areas of public action were opened to European Jews, and they entered schools and public universities widely, which ended centuries of separating them from the societies in which they lived.
But this, according to Shlomo Avniri, in his book "The Modern Zionism Industry", led to the exacerbation of the Jewish p...
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