Men Behind Worst Failure, Worst War Decisions, Worst Hostage Deal, Expect To Be Reelected

The confidence involves the unfortunate fact that any potential alternative candidates are no better.

Jerusalem, January 22 – Leaders whose inside-the-box thinking, institutional malaise, naïvety, inertia, cowardice, sexism, and disdain for common sense led to Israel’s vulnerability in the face of the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust still count on career advancement, either via the electorate or through the boys’-club network that sees senior military officers gain new rank regardless of performance, political and military observers noted today.

Commentators, aides, and analysts remarked this morning and over the last several months that the cohort of elected officials and military officers whose catastrophic failures allowed Hamas and Palestinians civilians from the Gaza Strip to murder 1200, kidnap 250, and engage in a destruction, rape, and looting spree on October 7, 2023 expect not to suffer adverse personal consequences for their arrogant blindness, whether at the hands of voters or military decision-makers.

“The people who ignored the watchwomen’s warnings think they still deserve to become generals,” explained the aides. “The commanders who dismissed intelligence reports of massacre preparations because those reports contradicted the comfortable notion that Hamas was ‘deterred and weakened’ and preferred stability, will still submit their candidacies for more senior commands, and their like-minded colleagues will likely award them.”

“The same with politicians,” added another. “Whether it’s Prime Minister [Binyamin] Netanyahu, whoever was Defense Minster at the time or since, or anyone in the intelligence apparatus – they think they did a wonderful job and deserve to be either reelected, reappointed, or promoted. And the plodding, deferential-to-Biden conduct of the Gaza war has had the same effect. These people think not that they necessarily did an excellent job, but that their job security won’t be threatened because no one else with any credibility is willing to do those jobs.”

Part of the confidence, experts explained, involves the unfortunate fact that any potential alternative candidates to the ones serving before, on, or since October 7, 2023, come from the same institutional and axiomatic framework. “Any IDF soldier who didn’t conform to the assumptions of the ‘let’s-just-keep-Hamas-quiet’ school never made it into the senior ranks, or didn’t stay there for very long,” stated journalist Nahum Barnea. “Bibi is terrible, but let’s not pretend [Benny] Gantz or [Yair] Lapid would have made different decisions. In fact theirs might have been worse, because they were more dependent on Biden for rhetorical and political legitimacy as ‘alternatives’ to Bibi.”

“Poetically, the only principled political stand anyone has taken is that of racist thug [just-resigned Minister for Public Security Itamar] Ben-Gvir, it turns out.”

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