Commentary;
A serial surrender artist who ran from South Lebanon and was willing to part with 97% of Eretz Yisrael and divide Jerusalem.
Knesset Elects Ninth President
Heaven help us if the mastermind chief manipulator of Olso would weasel his way into the office of President thanks to the hypocracy of the Shas party and it’s leader.
And what ARE the fruits of corrupt governance? this phrase from a Gush Katif expulsion victim says it best;
“Let’s give up Sderot because that is the only solution the government knows”
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‘Corruption Worse than Iranian Threat’, by Etgar Lefkovitz (Jerusalem Post)
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The corruption manifest in Israeli leadership and the society as a whole is more worrisome than the Iranian nuclear threat, former chief of General Staff Lt. Gen (Res.) Moshe Ya’alon said Monday.
“I lose more sleep over the corruption in the country than from the Iranian bomb,” Ya’alon said at a conference on the leadership crisis in the country organized by the Movement for Quality Government in Israel, a government watchdog group.
He added that while the Iranian nuclear program was an external threat that was being dealt with by the international community and by Israel, corruption was an internal threat that threatened to “spread like cancer and kill” unless one exposes it.
The former IDF chief, who is considered to be a top contender in the political arena in the future, said that Israel was facing an unquestionable “leadership crisis” as a result of moral and professional failings of the political and military leadership.
Ya’alon, who has repeatedly called on the government’s wartime leadership to step down following last year’s inconclusive war in Lebanon, said that responsibility starts with the country’s leaders, but also was representative of a public political culture which lacks basic norms and values.
In his address, Ya’alon also cited four ‘centers of power’ which had a secondary role in the corruption of society as a whole including those who try to influence and buy power and the media with money, the Israeli media, (which he said was “mostly shallow superficial, manipulative, and not credible”) the ‘spin-masters’ (who he said have become experts in media manipulations) as well as the Supreme Court, which, he said, has, in some cases, overstepped itself by taking authority in areas were it has no responsibility.
Ya’alon’s tenure as Israel’s top military officer was marked by both a successful military crackdown on Palestinian terrorism, and his very overt falling out with then prime minister Ariel Sharon over his opposition to the premier’s unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip
He slammed the phenomenon of quick-fixes and instantaneous solutions, noting that the demand for “peace now” – like the demand for ‘messiah now’ – was unrealistic and foolhardy at best and dangerous at worst, adding that what was needed was a change in moral cultures, and education of youth that will bring about such a required change in culture.
“This is a war of light on darkness,” he concluded.
Ya’alon: Corruption Worse than Iranian Threat
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“Ya’alon said the leadership crisis in Israel stems from moral and professional failures. He charged that the political culture in Israel has forgotten the principle that ‘when a person fails, he should accuse himself and not others.'”
“The former Chief of Staff also attacked the current system whereby senior police and army officers advance according to their political opinions and their friendships with those in power instead of according to their professional abilities.”
‘Government Solution To Terror Is To Give Up Land’ (Israel National News)
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Former Gush Katif families living in the Golan Heights trust the public to oppose any government attempt to give up the strategic area to Syria as a solution to defeat terror, expulsion victim Yackie Zarieli declared Monday morning.
“Let’s give up Sderot because that is the only solution the government knows,” he said, referring to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s suggestion that Israel give up the Golan Heights in exchange for peace with Syria. The government promised two years ago that the expulsion of Gush Katif families would bring an end to Palestinian Authority (PA) terror.
Zarieli said that 23 expelled families are successfully farming in the Golan Heights. “We have faith and with that we will work,” he added.