Major General Guy Zur, former commander of the Land Arm, called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “traitor” during a demonstration in Jerusalem about a week ago.
“Netanyahu is a traitor, he has become the enemy of the people and he needs to be removed as soon as possible,” Tzur said – and explained: “The way to do this is to talk to more and more members of the public who have taken to the streets and will not return to their homes until the scoundrel leaves.”
In response to Channel 14, Tzur retracted the use of the word ‘traitor’. “My intention is to betray the democratic values, the values of the unity of the Israeli society, the possibility of the abductees being saved, a betrayal of the values of Zionism. The use of the definition ‘traitor’ is less successful as a general statement on the matter”.
The editor of the newspaper ‘Bassheva’ Emanuel Shila wrote after the publication of Tzur’s words: “The level of incitement against Netanyahu has reached an unprecedented frenzy. The things that are said about Netanyahu by key speakers, above the stage, are much more serious than what was said at the time about Yitzhak Rabin in the right-wing demonstrations against Oslo.”
He explained that “when the right-wing demonstrators called Rabin a ‘traitor’, then opposition leader Binyamin Netanyahu announced from the stage: ‘He is not a traitor, he is greatly mistaken, and he will also turn his way, but he is not a traitor.’ This did not prevent the left from retrospectively accusing him of incitement and responsibility for the murder.
“If the leaders of the opposition – Gantz, Lapid, Sa’ar, Lieberman, Yair Golan – continue to remain silent in the face of this dangerous incitement, they will not be able to wash their hands clean when the verbal violence, God forbid, turns into physical violence,” added Sheila. “President Herzog should also remember that his main role is to unite and prevent a rift in the nation. He cannot enjoy the perks of his high office while going through this dangerous campaign of incitement in silence.”
According to the report on Channel 14, another retired general, Dan Halutz, spoke last Saturday night in Herzliya where he “warned” the Prime Minister not to attack Lebanon. In addition, he called on the heads of the security establishment to “put” the prime minister “in his place”.
“I am warning you against a war in Lebanon at this time,” said former Chief of Staff Dan Halutz, “and I am somewhat experienced in the war in Lebanon. If you do not find the alternatives, we will come to an account with you. You will carry the blood of the future fallen on your head.”
Then he called on the heads of the security system to limit Netanyahu. According to him, this is not a military coup. “
I call on the Chief of Staff, the head of the Mossad, the head of the Shin Bet – not to be dragged after the personal follies of the Prime Minister of Israel and put him in his place. Not coups, by all means, but definitely knocking on a table and saying that’s it.”
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