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Time for regime change in 'Israel', Res. General Brik says

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  • Source: Israeli Media
  • 10 Feb 2024 21:18
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A top Israeli Reserve General underlines the need for a change in Israeli leadership as a final push to keep the Israeli occupation afloat.

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  • A protester wears a shirt depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a demonstration to demand the release of the Israeli captives from Gaza in 'Tel Aviv', occupied Palestine, January 20, 2024 (AP)
    A protester wears a shirt depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a demonstration to demand the release of the Israeli captives from Gaza in 'Tel Aviv', occupied Palestine, January 20, 2024 (AP)

Israeli Reserve General Itzhak Brik said in an article published in the Israeli Maariv newspaper that the Israeli occupation "faces an existential threat," and he believed that "it is time to change its leadership."

According to the military official, this "threat will be of a magnitude similar to a nuclear bomb but without a nuclear fallout," explaining that it would see "250,000 missiles, rockets, artillery shells, and drones threatening Israel from all sides, launched by Iran and its proxies in the upcoming regional war towards the Israeli home front at a rate of thousands of missiles and drones per day."

"The precision missiles produced by our enemies, with explosive heads weighing hundreds of kilograms each, and their production rate is astonishing," he said. "Within a few years, they will have tens of thousands of precision missiles and drones, a latent destructive force that could destroy Israel today, and certainly more than that in the coming years."

The security threats and challenges facing "Israel", summarized by Brik, represent "existence or obliteration" for the occupation, requiring preparation for them, according to Brik, "a new military and political leadership to lead the process of building resilience in the face of the most challenging security threat we have ever faced."

He asserted his belief that the leadership that led "Israel" to the dangerous catastrophe in the Gaza Strip was neither qualified nor deserving of leading the Israeli security policy in the coming years.

"Israel has always been in a state of regional war and a threat to its existence, but only a miracle prevented it because Hezbollah did not wage war against us to fight us, while Hamas attacked the border settlements on October 7, 2023," he asserted. "A state relying on miracles and not on real military capability will not survive for long."

The Israeli General mentioned that weeks after October 7, when the war cabinet decided to attack Gaza, Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and Security Minister Yoav Gallant urged the Israeli army to go to war against Hezbollah at the same time.

Brik saw that such a step "would have led to a regional war, causing terrible destruction and significant losses on the Israeli home front, as the Israeli army and the home front were not prepared for it at all."

This is a serious and unacceptable problem due to the unreasonable considerations of the two officials currently leading the war. Can the irrational considerations of these two individuals be repeated, causing a catastrophe? the Israeli top military official wondered.

Israelis deluded

Recently, he said, there were discussions in the media that the commander of the Northern Command, Ori Gordin, stated that the Northern Command was ready for any mission assigned to it inside Lebanon against Hezbollah and was prepared to launch an attack.

According to Brik, the commander of the Israeli Air Force on the same day stated that his pilots "were waiting for the order to attack Hezbollah in the depth of Lebanese territory with hundreds of aircraft, not just tens of aircraft, as they are attacking now,"

"This is the same commander of the Air Force and his predecessors who did not prepare the air force bases to face the precision missiles and drones that Hezbollah will launch at them," he argued.

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Brik also went on to say how "Both the Chief of Staff and the Security Minister repeatedly confirmed that if a political settlement is not reached with Hezbollah, they will have to reach one via military force."

"Those responsible for the disaster in the Gaza Strip are still embarking upon the same approach, just as they spoke before Hamas' attack [...] are joined by analysts on major TV channels who say that after Hamas' defeat in Gaza, the Israeli army must defeat Hezbollah in Lebanon," he further wrote.

Officials must be replaced

Further criticizing Israeli officials and the media, he said, "The statements of Israeli leaders, commentators, and analysts have no connection to reality, and they have not learned anything from the terrible blow we received in the Gaza Strip due to their mistake; they continue making their statements as if nothing happened, once again with the same arrogance, boasting, and detachment from reality."

In order for the Israeli occupation to survive and "triumph in a regional war," Brik said, the higher-ups in the political and military leadership must start being replaced now. 

To be able to survive in the future and triumph in a regional war, the process of replacing the top leadership in the General Staff and the political level must begin now. War is now perpetual, and it may protract for a very long period with low or high intensity, so there is nothing we are waiting for, but we must start replacing everyone and rebuilding the army now.

He concluded by saying that "Israeli leaders who caused the terrible result on October 7, 2023, are not qualified and unable to lead the required change, and before they are replaced, no operation to restore the army and the country's security will begin, and time is working against us."

In a similar vein, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been facing growing opposition, with over 40 former Israeli national security officials, celebrated scientists, and prominent business leaders calling on the occupation's President to forcibly remove Benjamin Netanyahu from office for being an "existential" threat to the country.

In a letter to Israeli President Isaac Herzog, the officials hold Netanyahu "primarily responsible" for "creating the circumstances" and fragmentation within "Israel" that led to Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, including his right-wing cabinet and various policies.

Netanyahu unwelcome

The letter touched on how leaders of Iran and the Palestinian and Lebanese Resistance saw a destabilized "Israel" and utilized this weakness to fight the occupation.

Haim Tomer, a Mossad officer who signed, told CNN that the occupation was now being led by "idiots", detailing that “everybody understands that Netanyahu is incompetent to lead Israel."

The letter also contends that Netanyahu has refused responsibility for the events of October 7, accusing him of “blaming others and inciting against those who had fought to save the Israeli democracy from his destructive actions and plans."

The signatories pleaded with Herzog and the Knesset speaker to replace Netanyahu, emphasizing that "the Israeli nation and Jewish history will not forgive you if you don’t fulfill your utmost national responsibility.”

Meanwhile, a recent poll conducted by Israeli Channel 13 shed light on the current preferences for the leadership of the Israeli regime, and incumbent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems to be hitting absolute rock bottom at a time of war.

The survey, conducted among a diverse cross-section of Israeli settlers, indicates that if elections were held today, former Israeli occupation forces chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot would garner 45% of the vote, while Netanyahu trails with 32%.

The New York Times detailed in a recent report that public sentiment in Israeli society is shifting from grief to indignation.

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