J'Accuse: Lt. Colonel
Eisner and Alfred Dreyfus
Ehud Barak has messed
it up again. He and Netanyahu have guaranteed that ISM anarchists from abroad
will continue to provoke our soldiers and abuse them physically, with cameras
poised to create doctored films. Eisner is Israel's Dreyfus Case.
The headline article
screamed out at me and made my blood boil:
“Following consultations
between GOC Central Command, Major General Nitzan Alon, and the Chief of the
Ground Forces Command, Major General Sami Turgeman, it has been determined by
the Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Benjamin (Benny) Gantz, to
dismiss Lieutenant Colonel Shalom Eisner from his post as Deputy Division
Commander on moral grounds, while dealing with the incident.
"Lt. Gen. Gantz
concluded in the investigation of the incident that there were professional and
command failures as well. Lt. Col. Eisner was dismissed from his position and
will not serve as the Deputy Commander of the IDF Officer School, and will not
be eligible to serve in commanding positions in the next two years.”
It just so happened that
I was researching something else only a day earlier: The trial of Captain
Alfred Dreyfus by the French military.
Not many people, even
many Israelis, realize the trial of a Jewish military officer in the 19th
century was what led to the creation of the Jewish state of Israel. Theodore
Herzl, the father of Zionism, witnessed the trials of Dreyfus where a military
command bent on saving face and honor sent an innocent career officer to
Devil’s Island for allegedly giving military secrets to Germany.
It was those trials,
publicized by French author Emile Zola in his "J'Accuse", that
convinced Herzl of the need for a Jewish homeland. The military knew another
officer had passed the information to Germany, but it preferred the lone Jewish
staff officer be cashiered and sent to Devil’s Island for it.
The first trial was held
in secret, but Dreyfus was publicly pilloried, having his rank stripped and his
sword broken. During his dressing down, he screamed out his innocence.
Later, when the real
culprit told the truth for money, Dreyfus was brought back to France and given
a new trial by the army. He was again found guilty, incredibly, but was
released from jail and eventually reinstated to the military where he later
served in the First World War.
At Zola’s funeral in
1908, Dreyfus was shot and wounded by an assassin, a military affairs
journalist who said he shot Dreyfus because of his links to Zola who had
criticized the military and because Dreyfus had been found guilty in two court
martials. The shooter was preserving “honor” for the military and was,
incredibly again, acquitted.
Do you have a son or
daughter in the IDF? Well, ask yourself if the brass is really concerned about
their welfare after what they’ve done to Lt. Colonel Eisner.
The same army brass and
defense leadership in Israel who seem to have effectively ended Colonel
Eisner’s career after an ISM staged event are the geniuses who armed the
Shayetet 13 with paintball guns against the Mavi Marmara flotilla. They
effectively sent unarmed Israeli soldiers against an ISM organized event that
invited in armed terrorists from Turkey. One of those Navy Seals was literally
disemboweled and thrown into the sea.
One of those killed that
day was an ISM activist from New York who attacked and tried to harm the
Israeli soldiers.
Ask yourself this: Did
anyone from Ehud Barak as Defense Minister to the IDF brass who armed them with
paintball guns take responsibility for what happened and resign?
Ehud Barak in fact can
be blamed for the entire mess. A man named Scott Kennedy back in 1988, recently
deceased due to natural causes and a part of the ISM in California, planned a
first flotilla boat back in 1988. That one was scuttled by the Mossad. When the
first new flotilla boat was organized a couple of years back, the Israeli
government had news of it a year in advance and the plans were to board it,
arrest those on board and nip things in the bud.
I know this because I
was the one who tipped the government off to the ISM’s plans. Nevertheless, at
2 am in the morning, Ehud Barak personally told the Israeli Navy to stand down
and let that first small cabin cruiser through to Gaza, because he feared
stopping them would give the Palestinians a publicity moment.
That can of worms turned
into eight more flotilla boats, each successively larger culminating in the
Mavi Marmara incident. After all, if you make a mistake once, why not repeat it
eight times?
After the government let
each successive boat through, the ISM was able to raise more money for bigger
boats and to attract terrorism funders for the next one. Finally when the
military was allowed to react, they were armed with paintball guns!!!
Guess who is still in
charge of Israel’s security and the military after all that and still making
decisions about the rank and file soldier, let alone ending the career of an
officer who was a hero in the 2006 Lebanon War against the Hizbullah.
The ISM supports Hamas, the PFLP, Al Aksa, Islamic Jihad and sees as its purpose to help them destroy Israel.
Then we have our politicians who released terrorists with blood on their hands, who murdered our soldiers, as the Hamas didn’t lose a beat and said they would kidnap still more Gilad Shalits.
The ISM supports Hamas,
the PFLP, Al Aksa, Islamic Jihad and sees as its purpose to help them destroy
Israel. That bicycle gang that confronted Colonel Eisner and broke his fingers
earlier that day was part of a bicycle “tour” created by an ISM co-founder in
Pasadena, California and his relatives to tour the PA and help interfere with
the IDF’s anti-terror operations for “peace.”
This isn’t the first
time the ISM pulled this with manipulated videos. Two soldiers serving in the
West Bank served three weeks in the brig because some ISM pervert filmed them
from behind after they pulled their pants down to urinate in an open field in
the countryside. The ISM released the video claiming the soldiers mooned them
The soldiers, upon realizing they’d been filmed, gave a “peace” salute instead
of smacking the ISM cameraman like they should have. That netted them three
weeks in jail to satisfy the brass.
What Colonel Eisner did
was no worse than what any police officer in America, the EU or even in Israel
would do in a crowd and riot control situation where anarchists refused to
move. He fell into their trap, plain and simple, and became an ISM propaganda
tool in a manipulated video.
The ISM routinely brings
cameras to planned violent anarchist events in the hope of generating footage
against the IDF.
PM Netanyahu exclaims to
the world that Eisner’s striking the anarchist to move is not reflective of
what Israel is. Apparently he feels that IDF soldiers having broken fingers and
getting disemboweled via ISM activities and demonstrations is perfectly acceptable
in preserving Israel’s “image” abroad.
To the contrary, it will
guarantee that ISM anarchists from abroad will now provoke our soldiers more
than ever before and abuse them physically with cameras poised to create
doctored films.
We can be sure ISM
orientation and training sessions will mention with glee how they ended a
career officer’s position in the IDF by setting up anarchist actions with
foreigners in the land of Israel.
IDF brass and Israeli
political leadership can rest assured they have "preserved the honor” of
the country and the IDF.
Dreyfus is not alone.
