Moshe Yaalon, who was Israeli defense minister during Benjamin Netanyahu's government between 2013 and 2016, again accused the prime minister on Friday of carrying out "ethnic cleansing" (sic) in Gaza.
“If it is an attempt at permanent expulsion (of Gazans in the north of the enclave) that will result in settlers settling there, then it is ethnic cleansing,” Yaalon reiterated in an opinion column in the daily Haaretz.
Yaalon, who was also chief of staff of the Israeli army, denounced how a third of the parliamentarians of Likud, Netanyahu's party, participated in a conference along the border headed by settler Daniella Weiss, who demanded that all Arabs in the Strip be replaced by "messianic" settlers. as the author refers to them.
These intentions on the part of the Israeli authorities led to The “Hague debacle,” says Yaalon, in reference to the arrest warrant for committing war crimes issued by the International Criminal Court against Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, whom he dismissed on November 5.
"Such an 'honour' is most commonly awarded to figures such as Gaddafi, Milosevic, Putin and other anti-democratic rulers," he said.
“The second (reason for these orders) is the use by government ministers of the language of war crimes,” he added, referring to the statements of the Finance Minister, the ultra-right Bezalel Smotrich, who considered it moral to let “two million Gazans die of hunger”.
In the column of Haaretz, Yaalon refers to a series of founding values of Israel to conclude that Netanyahu's authoritarian drift, which he accuses of punishing the security establishment when it has warned him about the course of the war, and his general management of the war, have led to the disappearance of these values.
“This is how men who say ‘yes’ to everything are promoted and weakness is created, like in Putin’s army, where generals who express their opinions risk being fired… or worse,” the former minister criticised in the text, which was full of comparisons between the current Israeli and Russian armed forces.
As a solution, he appeals to a call for elections so that the people can choose between a “Jewish, democratic and liberal” state or a “messianic dictatorship”.
Yaalon thus develops his accusations, which already went viral in an interview at the end of November and They sparked criticism from the Likud, which was also his party, and from former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant himself, who claimed that they were damaging the state.
The former Army chief writes in Haaretz, a progressive newspaper in the government's sights, which approved cutting off all communication with him or publishing announcements from government agencies on November 24, also accusing him of damaging the “legitimacy” of the State of Israel.
Agencies contributed to this Aurora article.
This gentleman should be tried for high treason against the country…
I totally agree that there is a mass murder of people, an abuse of the Armed Forces and there could even be economic interests in Gaza that do not want to give to the current population, such as, for example, the existence of gas in the maritime zone that corresponds to Gaza.
It is incredible that Israel has so many domestic enemies. The Lord Jesus Christ rightly said that a divided house cannot stand. That is what is happening to Israel. At the rate it is going, it will have many problems with its neighbors who already know about the internal division that Israel suffers and will exploit this situation.
Mr. Moshe Yaalon seems to understand some aspects.
Where is my comment??