Yair Golan, a former Israeli general and the leader of the country’s left-wing opposition party, has been barred from wearing an Israeli military uniform, entering a military base or serving as a reservist, Defence Minister Israel Katz said on Friday.
Before retiring, Golan had served as the army’s deputy chief of staff. Katz cited Golan’s remarks on Tuesday criticising the government’s policies in Gaza.
“Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like a sane country,” Golan told Israeli public radio in an interview.
That man isn’t fit for military service, he doesn’t even like killing babies!
So, real talk: How far away is Israel from a civil war?
I think pretty far. But Netanyahu has basically fired and replaced everyone who wasn’t openly going full Nazi mode.
Recently Netanyahu got rid of the secret service head who was investigating his parties ties with Qatar. Netanyahu just now replaced him with a lapdog who was fired by the previous secret service director for corruption.
Netanyahu has destroyed the illusion of Israeli democracy. Israelis didn’t care much about the blatant Apartheid which was already in place. But now that their own precious Israeli votes also don’t count, suddenly it gets them very angry. This was supposed to be an ethnostate where all non-arabs had equal rights, not a dictatorship!
Pretty far. The vast majority of Israelis doesnt give a shit about palestinians or arabs in general. The only reason you see any resistance to the war within Israel, is because Israelis are dying and they very much care about the life of those.
Too far.
The only civil war that could possibly happen is between netanyahu and people thinking he’s not genociding hard enough.
I see way too many people thinking israel is somehow a dictatorship and the fault for the genocide is with the government, when the most widespread criticism of israel’s government by israelis is that the government is not “doing enough”. The country is rotten to the core, as are all ethnostates
They have decades of brainwashing not just Israelis but Jews abroad to unconditionally support Israel, that anything Israel does is the will of god… My ex and their family were Jewish and I’ll never forget the first time I heard something along the lines of “being a good Jew means supporting Israel”.
I mean for about a quarter of a century they’ve been paying young adults to come and listen to propaganda in Israel.
It is the largest educational tourism organization in the world.
Trips also often include a Mega Event for all participants featuring speeches by dignitaries, including the Israeli Prime Minister, and musical performances by popular Israeli artists. Oh, my bad, not “propaganda”, “educational tourism”.
The tours also include a 5- to 10-day mifgash (Hebrew for ‘encounter’) with Israeli peers, usually soldiers serving in the Israel Defense Forces. The stated purpose for the mifgash is for the participants and the soldiers to get to know each other and to better understand each other’s worldview and Jewish identity.
Oh yes, I’m sure the IDF wants their soldiers to better understand “other worldviews”. /S
Birthright trips have been described as a form of propaganda.[48][49][50] Jewish Currents wrote, “Birthright has served as one of the most effective propaganda campaigns on behalf of the Israeli government and its occupation of the Palestinian territories.”[51] The organization has been scrutinized for the large proportion of its funding coming from major Trump and Netanyahu backer Adelson.[31]
In 2006, Salon.com alleged that Birthright Israel screened out applicants for political reasons.[52]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_Israel
Well at least there’s a tiny hint of semblance of balance on Wikipedia.
I don’t get the impression that he wanted to continue.
He was retired, sure, but this is a denial of his entire career, if not his life’s work (I can’t speak to how much being in the military means to him).
I guess he probably knew that a government that likes to kill babies has no problems with stripping him from all his ranks for speaking the truth.
