Danger: Novice Politician COS “Yihyeh B’Seder“ Halevi Publicly Asserts IDF Doesn’t Need To Hold Philadelphi Corridor

Dr. Aaron Lerner 14 July 2024

After Netanyahu said that he "insisted that Israel remain on the Philadelphi Corridor", Chief of Staff Halevi said today in a special statement that "we will know how to control it in all kinds of operational ways".

My stomach turns.

It’s bad enough that the COS opposes the declared policy of the PM in public.

But it is much worse than that.

October 7th is the result of decades of “Yihyeh B’Seder” (“it will be okay”) assertions by the security establishment- including Halevi.

There was some hope that these guys, after so many years of dangerously self serving optimistic assessments (we can leave the Golan in exchange for gizmos, Hizbollah is deterred rather than patiently building their power, Hamas is deterred, we can withdraw from Gaza, we can withdraw from anywhere in Judea and Samaria for a deal, we can relinquish control of the Old City of Jerusalem to a special authority) that October 7th would make them modest.

It hasn’t.

Instead this same COS Halevi has berated and ridiculed civilian ministers who have had the chutzpah to ask questions in cabinet meetings.

Even if the IDF today possessed a magical remote sensor to detect smuggling tunnels (it doesn’t) how does COS “Yihyeh B’Seder“ Halevi think we are going to be able to go in and destroy a detected tunnel if we aren’t already there?

And if Halevi genuinely thinks that we can be certain that we could go back in then this hopelessly naive man has no business being responsible for the lives of our troops and the defense of our nation.