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Netanyahu's Loyalists Spawn Another Milestone on the Path to Civil War in Israel
Is there any organization of reservists waiting for the order from Netanyahu to continue fighting in Gaza even if the order to pull back is given? Almost certainly not, and if there is, this video isn't proof of it. But it serves Netanyahu and the far right to have Israelis fear that may be the case
It was a fake video, staged by a man who is not currently serving in the reserves, with a fake background making fake statements, distributed by two of the most fake Israeli social media accounts (fake in the sense that they are used to disseminate fake news, the people running them are real). But it raised what could become a very real threat to Israel in the not too distant future.
The video posted on social media first by Yinon Magal, host of the "The Patriots" chat-show on the slavishly pro-Netanyahu Channel 14, shows a masked man in uniform claiming to speak in the name of 100,000 reservists who have been fighting in Gaza since October 7 (though there are currently only a few thousand reservists with the Israel Defense Forces in the Strip) and is directed both at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
To the soundtrack of a generic action movie and standing in front of a ruined graffiti-covered wall which is supposedly somewhere in Gaza – though it was not shot in Gaza – the masked speaker promises that the 100,000 reservists would refuse to withdraw from the Strip before the enemy "is exterminated," and informs Gallant that should such an order be given, the reservists won't obey him and their commanders, but only Netanyahu.
It's important note at this point that the Prime Minister of Israel is not the commander-in-chief of the IDF. By law, only the entire cabinet can dictate military strategy, and the defense minister is in charge of instructing the IDF.
But the message is clear: someone is trying to make it look as if Gallant, who nearly two weeks ago publicly criticized Netanyahu for the lack of a strategy in Gaza, is acting against the national interest, as embodied by the anonymous reservists whose loyalty in such a case would be to Netanyahu.
To drive home that message, the prime minister's wastrel son who has never done a day of reserve duty, but is currently whiling away his time, at wartime, in Miami, posted the video as well.
Following the furor it created over the weekend, Netanyahu Jr. at some point took the video off his social media accounts, and his father's office put out a statement saying that "the prime minister warned many times of the danger in the refusal of orders phenomena and the leniency towards it. The prime minister is consistent in this approach against any form of refusal of orders from any side and expects all the establishments to treat them equally."
In other words, he was comparing threats of an armed insurrection to the protesters against his government's "legal reform," who last year threatened not to turn up for reserve duty if it was passed.
The disingenuous prime ministerial statement was echoed by the lawyer of the "soldier," who as it turns out was not a soldier in Gaza but a citizen (who has in the past served in reserves) and a hardcore Likud supporter who borrowed the rifle from a friend. He is now under investigation by the military police for mutiny and inciting mutiny. His reserve status has been discontinued. Why was his client arrested when the leftists were not?
It's a faulty comparison of course. The protesters against the judicial overhaul at no point threatened to defy orders while in service. They spoke of withholding their voluntary service if the anti-democratic legislation went through, a controversial move without a doubt, but nowhere near the level of disobeying orders in uniform during war. They also never called for an insurrection against their commanders or pledged allegiance to an alternative political power.
And if there was to be a constitutional crisis in which the commanders of the IDF would accept instructions from the High Court of Justice rather than a prime minister or government without legal authority, they would simply be acting according to the law. There is absolutely no basis in Israeli law for soldiers' pledging allegiance to the prime minister.
But these crucial differences between passive protest and armed mutiny don't matter in the echo chamber operated by Netanyahu's proxies. As the masked fake soldier says at the end of the video: "you wanted a military coup, we the reserve soldiers who can't go home, we will show you what is victory."
Is there any organization of reservists waiting for the order from Netanyahu to continue fighting in Gaza even if Gallant and the IDF generals give the order to pull back? Almost certainly not, and if there is, this video isn't proof of it. But it serves Netanyahu and the far right to have Israelis fear that may be the case. It is unlikely to deter someone like Gallant, who has faced much more dangerous situations over his military career, but if Israel does ever descend into civil war, this production by the Netanyahu machine will be a milestone on that path leading to the bottom.
Source : Haaretz
Link : https://archive.md/Tfzv0#selection-1065.0-1125.588
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