The head of Israel’s military intelligence, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, announced his resignation on Monday, citing his failure to prevent the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel.
“We did not live up to our mission, I bear full responsibility for the failure,” Haliva said in a resignation letter. “The Intelligence Division did not live up to the task we were entrusted with. Throughout my duties, I knew that alongside authority comes heavy responsibility.”
He also called for the establishment of an investigative committee to “investigate and find out in a thorough, in-depth, comprehensive and precise manner all the factors and circumstances.”
Haliva is the first high-ranking Israeli military official to resign, which came after over six months of Israel’s relentless slaughter and starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. According to an analysis from Haaretz, more Israeli officials are expected to resign after Haliva.
Haaretz also criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for not taking responsibility for allowing the Hamas attack to happen. “It is impossible to ignore the fact that there remains one person that even now refuses to accept any responsibility for the disaster under his watch and, to a large degree, due to his policies, namely Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,” the report said.
Netanyahu has come under criticism from Israeli media for his previous policy of helping prop up Hamas as part of a strategy to separate the Palestinians in Gaza from those in the West Bank to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. His government also ignored a mountain of intelligence and warning signs that indicated Hamas was planning something big.
Bibi needs to resign for destroying Gaza.
Just exchange prisoners.
But when Palestinians are captured by Israelis, it’s seemingly no big deal. “The ones we’ve captured, even the children, are all terrorists. Trust us.”
I really fear the dead are closer to 100k. I guess no one uses that number, but a close analysis of who resided there before and after would be revealing. Right now it’s chaos.
Hamas brought this destruction upon Gaza.
Oh no. Israel made the choice. It was a choice, unforced.
Fascinating how Jake tries to rationalize genocide.
That’s where nationalism, especially ethno-nationalism, always ends up at if it’s successful.
Lay the blame on the antisemites that did not allow Jews to assimilate-be it the Dreyfus affair,the Russian Pale of settlement and pogroms,the Nazi policy of de Germanizing its Jewish citizens,or the Islamic Dhimitude.
Tragically, you are correct.
After the mass genocide perpetrated by Hamas on Oct 7, Hamas is being hunted down-that is not genocide.
The hunting part isn’t the genocide. It’s the extermination of anything and anyone in the vicinity of the hunted that IS.
The International Court of Justice has already determined a plausible case of genocide is happening in Gaza.
Funny how on Oct 7,the pogrom was both rationalized and denied-Hamas missiles are mosquito bites,no rapes,no castrations,no faces shot off with 30 bullets after the victim is dead,no kidnappings,no families tied up together and burned alive,no babies killed,and Israel has no right to self defense
Genocide isn’t self defense
Tell that to Hamas.
Big protest outside Columbia U main gate this afternoon, organized by NYC Jews – a typical sign read;
“Judaism Demands
FREEDOM for GAZA and
ALL PALESTINE & forbids any Jewish State”
Another person with a brain infested with giant worms from the movie Tremors.
Just like Putin should.
OK. Putin actually isn’t Israeli.
He is not. But he infested Don’s brain like the giant worms in the movie Tremors.
When will IDF leadership resign for killing ~400 Israelis on 7.Oct in ordering a Hannibal Directive gone wild ?
Never happened.
So the tail of the fish just resigned.
Is there anyone left in Israel with any power or moral upbringing whom can help stop this madness?If this needless struggle betweeen Iran and Israel is not stopped by cooler heads we are all in grave danger.iran has more then enough power to defeat Israel which might cause those loonies ruling Israel to go Nuclear. That will be a tragedy for the entire world. Russia and Pakistan have told Netanyahu DON”T. Will he listen?
Just in case you were waiting for an answer, there probably is but not enough. As to: “That will be a tragedy for the entire world.” We like tragedies. We like them colossal. See our wars. We like big round numbers of people killed too. 4 million, 20 million, the more the better.
Yes the worms in the ground need feeding.
Dog and pony show.