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Published: 13:55, August 12, 2025 | Updated: 11:52, August 14, 2025
IDF chiefs break ranks
By Keith Mitchelson
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) paratroopers clear ammunition from their weapons before entering the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem's Old City for a ceremony on Jan 8, 2025. (PHOTO / AP)
Now, as Israeli settler attacks on West Bank Palestinian villages intensify with Israel Defense Forces (IDF) support, and Gazan survivors enter starvation induced genocide, many former IDF chiefs suddenly call for US President Donald Trump to intervene to “Stop Netanyahu”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has led his country on three occasions (1996–99, 2009–21, and from 2022 until now; becoming Israel’s longest-serving prime minister). The support of Netanyahu by Israeli military and security institutions has been rock solid throughout the many decades of his various governments.
As military commanders, they have shown no inhibition in attacking unarmed Palestinians at every turn, arresting many tens of thousands as “suspects” who were held indefinitely in concentration camp prisons and tortured to intimidate them to leave their country, or to prove their involvement in “terrorism”.
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After the 1967 War, Palestinian lands were partitioned into the enclave of Gaza, while the West Bank of Palestine was illegally occupied by Israel. Its Palestinian citizens were then ruled under ruthless apartheid laws, under which they could be murdered without redress, or made homeless as land was confiscated under fake edicts from Israeli courts. This manner of rule parallels the Nazi treatment of Jews in 1930s Germany – Netanyahu’s military and security thugs learnt these lessons well, and now employ the same techniques.
Recently, as much of the Western world has decided that Netanyahu’s genocide of Gazans by starvation, random shooting and bombing has become too much to bear, some 600 of these prior IDF military chiefs have suddenly concluded that the world must be informed that “actually they too oppose Netanyahu”, and meekly suggest that US President Trump intervene to induce a halt in Netanyahu’s murderous actions. They are themselves helpless to help, even behind the scenes in Israel.
This is a remarkable request from these ghouls. They have often repeated the monstrous fiction that “Hamas killed 1,600 Israelis on Oct 7, 2023” – the much claimed “justification” for Netanyahu’s war of genocide against Gaza and other parts of Palestine.
Some of these ex-commanders will have themselves participated on Oct 7, 2023 in the so called “ Hannibal Directive” bombing and shelling by Israeli military helicopters, drones and tanks of any moving cars and of many Israeli settlements within the area of the Hamas incursion which was activated at noon that day. Many more will have had roles in the pre-planning for the Hannibal Response, they will have commanded training of IDF troops for it, and they will have spread the lies to the media and kept telling the lie to all who would listen.
