Keeping quiet until you are out the door anyhow

October 5, 2006 - 2:21 PM by Sarah

Yonathan on the mudslinging going on in the IDF’s upper echelons:

I cannot help wondering why generals like Yiftah Ron-Tal and rabbi Yisrael Weiss, who today – right before or after their retirement, one year after the disengagement – openly question or criticize that disengagement plan and its implementation, did not offer their resignation a little more than one year ago. Could it be that they felt that a year ago the public mood was not in the favor of the settlers, whereas today it is not in favor of the government? Or could it be that they cherished the benefits that come with properly finishing a long military career – as opposed to the penalties that I suppose are a result of quiting before your contract is fully served – more than their principles? I have my doubts about Dan Halutz as a leader, but general Ron-Tal’s completely ignoring the chief of staff’s repeated orders to appear for a meeting and a disciplinary hearing is a matter of subordination, or am I mistaken? Obviously his ‘brave’ actions receive a lot of feedback from the often frustrated people who get their own back by filling out feedback forms on various websites, but sorry, men like Yiftah Ron-Tal are not the kind of leaders that we need to get us out of the mess we find ourselves in.

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