To the Israeli Press, Pronouncements by Generals Are Non-Political So Long as They’re Politically Correct
Any other positions are “political.”
February 25, 2019
To the Israeli Press, Pronouncements by Generals Are Non-Political So Long as They’re Politically Correct
Any other positions are “political.”
Over the years, some former Israeli security professionals—retired generals, heads of the Mossad and the Shin Bet, and so forth—have come out strongly in favor of plans for the Jewish state to cede control of all or part of the West Bank. When they express such positions publicly, their views are inevitably feted in the Israeli and English-language press. But when Gershon Hacohen, a major-general in the IDF reserves, made the opposite case in a recent article, he received sharp criticism from the former Mossad director Shabtai Shavit. Hacohen writes:
February 25, 2019
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