{"id":279020,"date":"2023-12-28T06:05:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T06:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=279020"},"modified":"2023-12-29T08:10:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T08:10:12","slug":"israel-security-chief-warns-of-far-right-plot-against-senior-idf-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=279020","title":{"rendered":"Israel security chief warns of far-right plot against senior IDF officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Middle East Monitor \u2013 Dec 27, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n
\n
\"\"<\/a>

Major General Yehuda Fox<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The head of Israel\u2019s Internal Security Agency has warned of a far-right plot against the senior military commander in the occupied West Bank. Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar expressed his concerns in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog and all government ministers.<\/p>\n

Bar said that intense criticism directed at IDF Central Command\u2019s Major General Yehuda Fox, \u201cmay create a concrete threat to the general\u2019s life and allow him to be harmed.\u201d The plot, he said, is led by \u201ca small number of people, but who are extremist and Kahanist.\u201d<\/p>\n

He claimed that the intense criticism directed at Fox are due to his actions following 7 October which include implementing administrative orders leading to the detention of extremist settlers without formal charges and overseeing the retrieval of firearms distributed to civilian \u201csecurity teams\u201d without proper supervision. \u201cThe steps that the Central Command chief has led have caused a real escalation in the criticism against him, which is presented as him having Jewish blood on his hands, to the point of deciding on din rodef<\/em> [sending someone to murder] him.\u201d<\/p>\n

The warning comes after the Israeli military issued a six-month administrative restraining order in September preventing Elisha Yered, one of the main suspects accused of killing 19-year-old Palestinian Qusai Jamal Maatan<\/a> in the West Bank last month, from accessing the region. According to the Times of Israel<\/em>, Fox claimed that he was convinced that the \u201cweighty security considerations require this and that it was necessary\u201d to ensure the security of the West Bank.<\/p>\n

Following Bar\u2019s letter, IDF Chief of Staff addressed the hostility towards Fox. \u201cAny persecution or defamation of him is grave and must be condemned clearly and from every quarter,\u201d insisted General Herzi Halevi.<\/p>\n

Moreover, opposition Leader Yair Lapid slammed the threats against Fox, calling him \u201ca brave warrior, patriot, defender of Israel.\u201d He added, \u201cThe threats against his life are another disgraceful low of a messianic, violent and delusional group, which endangers Israel\u2019s security while the IDF is fighting for our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last week, President Herzog held a meeting with Israeli soldiers stationed in the South Hebron Hills region, in Area C of the Occupied West Bank. \u201cIt is important to me on this occasion to strengthen Central Command head Yehuda Fox, who is going through difficult days of blatant, insolent and ugly personal attacks,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a vocal minority group that is causing terrible damage to the settlement movement and the IDF and it is extremely important that we stand up to them and make it clear to them that enough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two extremist Israeli settlers, Elisha Yered and Yehiel Indore, were accused of \u201cdeliberate or depraved-indifference homicide\u201d in the 4 August shooting of 19-year-old Qusai Maatan. Yered, formerly the spokesperson for the far-right Otzma Yehudit MK, Limor Son Har-Melech, is prohibited from communicating with multiple far-right activists.<\/p>\n

Rights groups have highlighted repeatedly the discrepancy between sentences issued to Israelis and Palestinians. While Palestinian stone throwers can and do receive up to 20 years in prison \u2014 even if they are minors and no damage or injuries have been caused by their actions \u2014 Israelis who murder Palestinians are generally released within months<\/a><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As if the IDF didn\u2019t have enough on its hands with Hamas and Hezbollah, Shin Bet (Israeli internal intelligence) chief Ronen Bar has warned of a \u201cconcrete threat\u201d to the life of a senior IDF general from extremist settlers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279020"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279025,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279020\/revisions\/279025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}