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Isaac Herzog - The
Levi Eshkol That Wasn't
D
uring the lead-up
head of Commanders for
to Israel's national
Israel's Security, a group of
elections, Zionist
former senior officers who
Union leader Isaac Herzog
have come out strongly
announced that he wanted
against Netanyahu's poli-
to be the next Levi Eshkol.
cies, said that "rhetoricians"
"Ostensibly, [Eshkol] was
on the right took advantage
a pale prime minister, stut-
of a people that has known
tering, devoid of charisma,"
"thousands of years of per-
M it ch
Herzog told Ari Shavit of
secution."
Ginsb u rg
Haaretz in early March.
He refused to say that a
But in fact, Herzog contended, it
left-wing bloc led by someone like
was Eshkol who readied the Israeli
the newly retired chief of the IDF
Defense Forces for victory in the Six- General Staff Benny Gantz would
Day War and who stared down the
be able to assuage the existential
international community and enabled fears of many Israelis — which he
the Dimona nuclear plant.
said were not unfounded — but
But the Israeli public on March
stated that focusing on housing and
17 delivered an emphatic truth, yet
the price of chocolate pudding was
again, to the Labor Party-led Zionist
a mistake. He said he would have
Union: It does not vote from its pock-
taken Netanyahu to task for say-
et and it does not, at this time, trust
ing that, if the Zionist Union was
a dovish civilian leader
elected, the only way to
with its life in this hell-
reach Judaism's holiest
ish part of the world.
site would be by helicop-
Labor has won a
ter or armored person-
total of two elections
nel carrier.
since Likud first rose to
But another dynamic
power in 1977. The first
may be at work.
time, in 1992, it was
Generals tend toward
under retired Lt. Gen.
action. Brig Gen. Asher
Yitzhak Rabin, the IDF
Levy, who served in the
chief of staff during the
War of Independence,
Six-Day War, who told
said that "the cen-
the public, "I shall navi-
tral
problem with
Isaac Herzog
gate." And the second
Netanyahu is that he
time, in 1999, was when
does not initiate. He is
another former chief of staff, Ehud
always reacting."
Barak, the most decorated soldier in
In recent years, action is what the
Israel's history, trounced his former
generals, from left and right, have
subordinate, Benjamin Netanyahu.
brought to the table. Barak promised
In support of the Labor coalition
a withdrawal from Lebanon and exe-
this election, retired army generals
cuted the move. The policies of Gen.
and former heads of the clandestine
Ariel Sharon, who replaced Barak in
services did their best to puncture
2001, led to the unilateral withdrawal
Netanyahu's security credentials.
of all of Israel's presence from Gaza.
They hurled every possible accusa-
In the mercilessly militant Middle
tion at him: That he lost the battle
East of today — where ISIS and
against Iran. That he failed against
Hamas have staked out territory to
Hamas. That he alienated Israel's
Israel's south, Al Qaida to Israel's
most important ally.
northeast, and Hezbollah and Iran
A Herzog supporter, former Mossad across the entire north — the Israeli
commander Meir Dagan, said that,
public did not want to risk action. It
as "one who raised his kids here and
wanted to shut the hatches and wait
is now raising grandchildren here, as
out the storm. Maybe, like the bibli-
one who believes with all his heart in
cal Noah, to send out the occasional
the Zionist dream — I feel a threat to
dove, but not to explore off the ship.
the continuation of that dream."
And that, with the negation of the
These are astonishing words
Palestinian state during the late days
against Netanyahu. At one point
of the campaign, is precisely what
in time, it seems, they would have
Netanyahu offered. ❑
stopped people in their tracks. Why
did they not work?
Mitch Ginsburg is the military correspondent
Maj. Gen. (ret) Amnon Reshef, the
for Times of Israel.
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