Genyal Zamir, Stabschef der IDF, schrie am Sonntag den Kabinettsministern an, dass sie einen derzeit auf dem Tisch auf dem Tisch stehenden Geisel-Ceasing-Deal abschließen und annehmen sollten, anstatt eine erweiterte militärische Operation im Gazastreifen voranzutreiben.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-chief-reportedly-yells-at-cabinet-ministers-to-take-the-hostage-release-deal/
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The Chief doesn’t want to put the troops in harm’s way, his stance against ground invasion is completely reasonable.
The Israeli military has hated the Netanyahu government for a while.
Before October 2023, there was some indication that Israel was headed for a full blown Civil-Military crisis. The 7 October attacks paused this divide, but if anything the pause and the added dimension of the war in Gaza, has only made things worse in military-government relations.
Maybe he should yell at Hamas as well.
Headlines is misguided though? He said in the article to „go around and make a deal“, not „accept a/the deal“
Bibi is actually insane.
Yeah, the army doesn’t want to lose hundreds (if not thousands) of men and waste billions of dollars for no clear gain
So, i was following pretty closely the apparent conflict between IDF and Government.
It’s a good article, but it also forgets another aspect of Zamir’s grievances with the government and conquest of Gaza City.
People close to him has been saying for some time that he will always do what he’s ordered (as he should). But what then? There’s still no plan for after. 95% of Gaza Strip will be under IDF control. Army will rule, above ground at least. What’s next?
Besides the obvious operations of dismantling Hamas‘ infrastructure, what will IDF do after that? Indefinite occupation, which will draw enormous resources, not to mention human costs?
Is there a plan for alternative palestinian government in Gaza? This is things you need to plan in advance, not make up on the fly. Zamir is rightly worried, that Bibi has nothing concrete for a day after. You could argue, that it’s not supposed to be his worries. But as long as there’s no plans past capturing all of Gaza, it will be his problem to hold it, even when the military campaign is finished.
With army that had seen virtually no downtime for the last two years, deployed and acting on multiple fronts, and now managing hostile densely packed population on a territory that is half of New York City.