Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian boy during protests against US President Donald Trump’s “Peace for Prosperity” plan, in al-Arroub refugee camp, near the West Bank city of Hebron, on 11 February.
Times of Israel – Aug 13, 2023
A former IDF general argued that Israel’s control of the West Bank has similarities to discriminatory policies under Nazi Germany, and expressed fear that soldiers will not be motivated to defend the country if the coalition succeeds in shackling the judiciary.
Amiram Levin, who headed the IDF Northern Command, commanded the elite Sayeret Matkal unit and served as deputy director of the Mossad spy agency, told Kan radio on Sunday morning that the military is not only suffering harm to its preparedness because of reservists’ threats and refusals to serve amid the government’s judicial overhaul, but is also “rotten to its core” due to Iarael’s ongoing presence in the West Bank.
Amiran Levin. Click to enlarge
“It stands on the side, looks at the rioting settlers, and begins to be a partner in war crimes,” Levin told the public broadcaster. “It’s 10 times worse than the issue of [military] readiness… and I say honestly, I am not angry at the Palestinians, I am angry at us. We are killing ourselves from the inside.”
Recent months have seen a rise in settler violence, with the United Nations earlier this month reporting close to 600 attacks on Palestinians and their property over the past six months. The Israeli defense establishment recorded similar numbers during that period.
According to official data provided to The Times of Israel, there were 680 incidents of stone-throwing or assault of Palestinians by settlers in the first six months of 2023, compared to 950 in all of 2022.
The interviewer asked Levin if he agreed with a May 2016 speech by former Meretz MK Yair Golan, who was IDF deputy chief of staff at the time, in which he said that processes in Israel were similar to some in Europe in the years leading up to the Holocaust.
“We find it difficult to say it, but that’s the truth,” Levin responded. “Look around Hebron, look at streets, streets that Arabs can’t use, only Jews, that’s exactly what happened in countries like that.”
Pressed on whether he saw specific similarities with Nazi Germany, Levin said: “Of course. It hurts, it’s not nice, but that’s the reality. It’s better to deal with it, even if it is hard, than to ignore it.”
Levin also assailed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s appointment of “draft dodger” cabinet members such as National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who was not accepted for mandatory military service by the IDF because of his extremist activities.
The prime minister is being exploited by “a messianic group of criminals, former ‘hilltop youth,’ people who don’t even know what democracy is,” he charged, referring to extremist settler activists.
“They come from areas where there is no democracy, from the West Bank, where for 56 years there hasn’t been democracy there,” said Levin. “There is absolute apartheid.”
While the challenge to the IDF’s preparedness amid a widespread reservist protest movement is “disturbing,” Levin said that “motivation and unity” is more important.
He argued that the military managed to overcome its lack of readiness for the 1973 Yom Kippur War when Arab armies launched a surprise attack, due to soldiers’ will to fight for the country. “This is not done for a dictator,” he said, adding that soldiers have to believe in the country in order to fight for it.
“And today there is a rupture. People don’t believe that a country under a dictatorship will survive. And even if it does, it’s not a place good people want to live in. Therefore, we need to be concerned a lot more about the coup and this awful group,” he said, referencing the coalition’s judicial overhaul legislation.
Levin also spoke on Saturday night at the central anti-overhaul rally in Tel Aviv, where he burst into tears while appealing to Likud ministers to intervene and stop the overhaul.
In response to Levin’s radio interview, Likud MK Danny Danon, a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, expressed disappointment that people who had contributed to the state in the past would express such sentiments, saying that “their minds get a little confused.”
“Anyone who compares us to Germany or the Nazi regime needs to be examined,” Danon said.
In response to Levin’s comments, Ben Gvir’s office said in a statement that the former general “knows well that Ben Gvir was not drafted into the army because of political pressure from leftists.”
The chief of the Israeli Air Force, Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar, met Friday with dozens of reservist pilots who have declared they would no longer show up for volunteer duty to protest the overhaul, warning them that the state of the force’s readiness was “worsening.”
An unconfirmed report by Channel 12 news added that Bar told pilots: “Instead of preparing for war, I’m dealing only with this.”
As the coalition advanced the first major piece of related legislation last month, more than 10,000 reservists who frequently show up for duty on a voluntary basis said they would no longer do so. The reservists, some of whom have acted on their threats, have warned they will not be able to serve in an undemocratic Israel, which some charge the country will become if the government’s judicial overhaul plans are realized.
The LBGT folk all talk about diverse sexualities and all variants are inclusive
child sex is good, boy-nobbing is an absolute joy
and there should be no limits on ages or disabilities
e g mongol children should still be entiteld to a sex life
but you mention sheep-shagging oh no, not that
Here in wales its become very popular past few years
nothing dirty like homosexual atacks on small boys
sheep-shagging is a wonderful pastime and good clean fun
but the bigots at the LBGT thinks its wrong
well they cam get lost
The Syber- Jews who evacuated from European Countries and decided in Palestinian Native are now as Victims of New World Order! The were brought there with the financial help of Rothschild to guard the Oil rich Arab Countries!
Palestinian children are often taken prisoner and tortured to force their parents to co operate
and give info
many are sexually abused in israeli prisons
If no info is forthcoming the dirty jews will often come and bulldoze the house and take any money in the bank to pay for the demolition
https://www.btselem.org/statistics/minors_in_custody
Russia bans all LBGT type perversion and child sex perverts
if they can do it why cant we ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJQDwwjoAUs
Just your regular Nazi state.
I almost thought it was Jarl Cones who wrote the article.
The Zionists are true Orchestras of the Jews whom were put in Work camps.
They then could use this plight of the Jews.
Q Bono who benefits from the demise of the Jew the Zionist whom is neither Jew or anything other them a Monster whom believe he is pure as the driven snow.
Those Palestinians are being brutally oppressed.
please get that stpuid troll carl jones off this forum
In Jewish Myth, Nazi Germany is the worst thing in the Universe, so it is the first simile they reach for when condemning something, while all other bad things are eclipsed. As such, it is also emulated by a lower part of their character
Morningstar: that’s funny. I very much doubt Rixon would publish an article by me. He struggles to post my comments. lol
I do believe, even if it’s a slow, that some are starting to see the Western (NATO) NWO as a Nazi enterprise.
Dear dear….’Jewes’ and ‘Nazis’…
♫” go together like love and marriage”♫…
… of course the problem with this imbeciles reasoning (which as always involves an extinct German political movement) is that the ‘Nazis’ and quite sensibly too …wanted rid of these ‘jewes’. because they can’t be decent monkey men..
but unfortunately (for the Arabs)..
shipped them to Palestine…. to steal the place..just like they do everything else that isn’t ahem..
‘nailed down’….
@Carl Jones–Nazis wouldn’t inundate Europe with millions of nonwhites. But Commies & Jews like you would.
Can’t you just stop nagging about nazi´s? When I see the words nazi and jesus I just scroll past it. LOL
there was no new wave of QLGBT before
10 years . why should I participate with this
jewish bullshit mode ? tomorrow they send a
new jewish sow through societies .
Bezo,Zuckerbait, Green want make Hawai
to their new jewish billionaries paradise using
israeli laserDEW beam to clear landscape of
poor native hawaians !
even when many dont agree with Carl Jones
he should not be deleted .
FREE SPEACH !
@Chesterton
they stole Jesus, even tho he was ‘nailed down’
Karl Marx was financed by a RotSchild in London – his 3rd cousin – while writing Das Kapital & The Communist Manifesto / He conveniently left out the role of the RotSchild banking syndicat
Adolf Hitler was also financed by the very same satanic j. bankers syndicat
https://ia600909.us.archive.org/24/items/WhoFinancedHitler/Who%20Financed%20Hitler__text.pdf
@ Edward Nazis & Commies / both brain child of the satanic RotSchild money monopolists….
@ Kelete ASFAHA
The Saudi Royals are crypto j.´s / fake j.´s as well / no connection to Bible Hebrews of 2000 + years ago
https://concisepolitics.com/2016/04/28/the-documented-jewish-roots-of-saudi-royal-family/
https://concisepolitics.com/2017/04/08/how-the-british-zio-mob-jews-created-the-zionist-wahhabi-kingdom-of-saudi-arabia/
December 1925 End of over 1000 years of rule by the Prophet Muhammad’s descendants.
1926 RotSchild syndicat officially recognized Ibn Saud as the new King with other European powers
following suit within weeks.
1932 RotSchild rebranded the territory as the “Kingdom of Saudi Arabia” (KSA).
The Palestinians suffer horrendously under the Ashkenazi / Kazar fake j.´s / but are in fact like their merciless oppressors originally Turks / settled in the slc mainly during the Ottoman Empire…
No wonder the crypto j. Saudi royals don´t support them / Egypt is headed by former military Sisi / a j..
Remember the words of Gamal Abdel Nasser the 2nd president of Egypt on Ashkenazi j.´s : ” You left black & came back white / you are ( a bunch of /gj) impostors”
Nasser knew his Pappenheimers….
CIA O
@Gabreal…Wrong… Christian. Christians like you are always anti-Nazi because the triumph of Nazism means the end of their rabbi religion…